Posted By:
peter chaoGuys,
People have been collecting for hundreds of years. I suppose the earliest collectible were perhaps gold coins. Back then, I'm sure people collected the coins simply because they were valuable. Then I suppose that somebody noticed that the coins had different dates... Also, people have been collecting books forever.
In particular the bible has been a favorite collectible for a long time...
Initially, people spent or threw away most collectibles, that's why a scarcity developed and voila we have the T-206. Perhaps, some impressionist painter's career was stalling and he thought that the T-206 cards looked quaint and he started collecting them...who knows. Thank God somebody thought the cards were collectible.
Peter