does anybody really connect with what they collect??

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Posted By: scott brockelman 

i have been buying and selling and collecting cards for over 30 years if you count my childhood. but as a progressive collector i advanced to issues way before my time, 1st 1950's Topps and Bowmans, which i completed all of them, and then goudeys and playballs(ditto on completion). and then T-cards and E-cards(most of which i have also completed), albeit at a cost of a few hundred thousand. BUT, what do they really mean to us. i have sold many of these off over the years, keeping only the rarest as a knowledgable collector would hope to do, but i have also reassembled my childhood collection, which i sold for $300 in 1980, i have reassembled it in the form of completion, but without all the dupes i used to have, or the well marked checklist's, but also chased the posters and inserts, etc. i have came to the conclusion it means much more to me that these childhood possessions are much more important than most of the high $$ material i also own. in the recent john burk auction i won a large lot of kellogg's 3-d's and received them today. just to sort thru them brought back more memories than any of the t-206 planks, or other rare cards i harbor in a safe, or 52 topps master set that i recently consigned to Mastro, just $200 worth of cards meant more to me than most of the cards i own, is this not what it really is about?? i ate a ton of raisin bran to accumulate my original hoard!

just a trip down memory lane, which is why we all started this in the 1st place i think.

scott