13 and 16 are supposing that the people buying these things are very very wealthy collectors, not investors. If so, there might not be a problem. (At least in the short-to-medium term.) If you are worth hundreds of millions you don't buy baseball cards for investments, because, as said above, even high end cards are pocket change. But if what's driving it is the kind of investor who considers buying a rental property or a baseball card, and chooses the card because of the huge increase in high-end card prices in the past few years, that's where you've got a problem. Note, however, that whether that's what's happening, I have no idea.
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