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Posted By: barrysloate

With the price of collectables and antiquities of all kinds soaring in price above the budgets of most collectors, we will see more objects broken up into small pieces. Not much anyone can do about it.

Does anybody remember that when the Beatles first came to New York and stayed at the Plaza Hotel, one of the hotel workers got ahold of their bedsheets and cut them into little one inch squares and sold each one for like five bucks apiece? But that was just a bedsheet, and it had no instrinsic value intact. Cutting up a Wagner, a uniform, a bat, or anything else is much worse. But it will continue to happen.