Do Pre-War Collectors buy Modern Cards Featurin Game Used Items of Pre-War Players

HRBAKER · #1 06-26-2019, 11:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Snapolit1

Zero interest. Would guess 95% of them are bogus. Human nature being what it is, I'm sure numerous Babe Ruth jersey and pants swatches were located in a nearby Goodwill store.

If you are trying to find the corner of the hobby most likely rife with fraud you've no doubt found it. And there's ample competition.

Zero provenance to any of this crap. Could be anything. Piece of a Babe Ruth bat? Yeah sure it is.

And I don't want a miniscule slice of wood even it it was was they are saying it is.

This is where I am at. No veracity other than words printed on the back of a card.

Exhibitman · #2 06-26-2019, 12:05 PM

On occasion. Depends on the item and the design, mostly. I find a lot of them to be ugly. I also tend to buy these for modern players, usually with autographs. I like having a signed item with a jersey or bat swatch from a player as my item for a HOF collection:

I also bought this one:

From a robe Bruce Lee wore on the set of Enter The Dragon. I am never going to be able to afford a Lee autograph or owned item so this is the closest I will get to something personal of Bruce Lee.

68Hawk · #3 06-26-2019, 12:26 PM

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Originally Posted by HRBAKER

This is where I am at. No veracity other than words printed on the back of a card.

Yup, same problem I run in to with Stickley furniture, Lalique perfume bottles, first edition books with so called first page publishing dates, corvette stingrays with matching number chasis/engine numbers (I mean, HTF would I know if someone hadn't ground down a plate and substituted with fakery?), the food at French Laundry 'supposedly' cooked by some well known chef, yada yada.

I mean, if you don't want to believe shit, you just don't want to believe.

HRBAKER · #4 06-26-2019, 01:10 PM

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Originally Posted by 68Hawk

Yup, same problem I run in to with Stickley furniture, Lalique perfume bottles, first edition books with so called first page publishing dates, corvette stingray with matching number chasis/engine numbers (I mean, HTF would I know if someone hadn't ground down a plate and substituted with fakery?), the food at French Laundry 'supposedly' cooked by some well known chef, yada yada.

I mean, if you don't want to believe shit, you just don't want to believe.

Oh I believe, I believe there is a likelihood that a lot of it is sh*t as you say. The same as with your other examples I assume.

I could be very wrong and I really hope I am.

68Hawk · #5 06-26-2019, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by HRBAKER

Oh I believe, I believe there is a likelihood that a lot of it is sh*t as you say. The same as with your other examples I assume.

I could be very wrong and I really hope I am.

And that's totally fair enough and a valid way of viewing things that purport to be something.
But it makes you a terrible candidate to be a collector.
And in the end, it's the suspension of belief, the immersion in feeling you are just inches away from greatness - whether of design, or act, or happenstance, and that being so close evokes thoughts that bring you meaning.

I enjoy it, so I collect.
Art, sculpture, sports memorabilia and cards, a few coins that have connection to moments or places, etc.

I don't think it's for everyone, but to diminish or question the voracity of the items without any proof just to naysay.....

Hey, I live in the USA and plenty of people here seem to believe in a 6,000 year old earth and creation, described in a series of books written by different hands at different times as the word of god, and which gives us our reason for being....but sheesh, a card company actually including material they say they're including is a bridge too far.

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