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peter ullmanI ALSO agree with the "short term recycling" theory. It's so cool to look at the old auction catalogues...but there's still cool stuff these days...the prices are just much higher.
Weren't there fewer auction houses back then so the quality of material was more likely greater than the more diluted days we've had recently.
Those caramels and rare oddities used to garnish little interest and prices were low...too bad I was preoccupied in school and my only activity in the hobby was looking at and showing off my cards to friends.
My biggest regret is not having gone after ty cobb's partial dentures and study models that sold in the Halper auction...they well exceeded the estimate...but there was ty's dna in there...clonorama!
pete ullman