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Originally Posted by Bored5000
They don't? This has been brought up before, but vintage collecting has numerous examples in which chase cards were extreme short prints to limit a prize redemption. Manufactured scarcity been happening for a very long time, and people like Fred Lindstrom, William McKinley, Rocky Graziano and many others all have cards that sell for far more than their accomplishments would otherwise dictate.
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Yeah, I hedged with the Wagner example which some theorize was held back on purpose.
But as a general rule, collectibles which are released and marketed as such, often don't have the staying power. This could be a whole other thread and is off-topic from investing but it's related.
One of kind because it's the "only one left" is a different thing than one of a kind "because they only made one." There was no widespread exposure to the latter, while there was to the former, and the former has been lost because it wasn't a collectible.
I will probably eat these words and the Trout Refractor Auto will be 10mm in 20 years time.