Looking for cardboard investment

[ls7plus]

Originally Posted by ls7plus

Pete, did you see the gargantuan sums the Clemente and Koufax rookies in PSA 9 went for in the Heritage auction a little over a month ago? More than $300K each, if memory serves correctly. This tells me that our little old hobby has quite a ways to go, especially once the big boys get involved! Personally, I believe that even Pre-War is in its infancy, compared to other collectible fields. If anyone else won an item as I did in Leon's recent auction, they likely received a book from Heritage along with it. Some of the other items in various other areas of collecting which were depicted in this book fetched truly astronomical $$$.

Best wishes,

Larry

Self-correction: The Clemente went for $310,000; the Koufax went for only $89,000. I guess I was thinking of the 1952 Topps Mantle in PSA 8, which went for $382,000 (it was a mere $112,000 card in 2010!). Male egos with lots and lots of money!

Regards,

Larry

[begsu1013]

and here she is. need for my basic topps ryan run, so i wont be cashing in on my $40k lottery ticket...

which still leaves me $1200 in the hole, plus about $150 in shipping/grading fees.

i'll get by, i guess...

not too bad for an unintelligent collector

[Leon]

Originally Posted by begsu1013

and here she is. need for my basic topps ryan run, so i wont be cashing in on my $40k lottery ticket...

which still leaves me $1200 in the hole, plus about $150 in shipping/grading fees.

i'll get by, i guess...

not too bad for an unintelligent collector

Nice card. I remember pulling those from packs!!