I'm beginning to feel sick

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Posted By: Steve M.

Chris C’s post on another thread got me thinking. Collecting is such a fluid activity, interests change, circumstances change. So, with that said

What cards have you owned at one time but no longer own?

Mine, inter alia:

T206 set minus Wagner, Plank, Doyle and Magie

33 Goudey set minus Lajoie

34 Goudey set

Rose Mathewson

Novelty Cutlery complete set.

Dietsche Tigers 1907 complete set with both Cobbs (I still have the fielding)

Kalamazoo Bat Irwin

53 Bowman sets both color and b/w

53 Topps Mantle

Allegheny (someone, I can’t even remember who)

C46 complete set

Ullman Mathewson Duplicate

59 Topps complete set in NM/MT

1915 Zeenut McMullin

Etc., etc., ad nauseum

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Posted By: George Dreher

I owned the Wagner T206 in good condition many years ago and sold it.

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Posted By: Dylan

Wow, nothing that extravagent like Wagners, or nearly complete T206 sets, but I try and remind people that although you've sold some great rarities in past years, many have financed the purchase of other rarities with those proceeds. You got to give something to get something back!

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Posted By: Ed McCollum

Complete sets of Topps football and hockey 1972-75. Sold all 8 sets for $20 total in 1984.

Had 113 different Star Wars figures, still on the cards, bought between 1977 and 1984. Got married and sold all for .50¢ each at a flea market in Lincoln in 1989. But we were broke, and food seemed a better investment.

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Posted By: leon

Four Base Hits Ewing....

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Posted By: Jason L

That is quite an impressive former inventory!

kinda makes my 1984 Fleer Juan Samuel rookie a little less important...


thankfully, no regrets to this point. I collect at such a slow pave and affordable price level so as to not force my hand on any important liquidations thus far...

seriously, though, that is one neat collection of cards you've had pass through your hands.

edited to wistfully add: oh, wait, I forgot about my N172 Kirby Puckett (w/batboy), and 1979 Hostess Honus Wagner (portrait)

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Posted By: T206Collector

I sold my PSA 6 Hal Chase Pink on ebay awhile back after SGC pointed out to me that it would not cross over because of a faint corner crease. It sold for about $200. Recently, the same condition card sold for over $1,000 on ebay. That made me a bit ill, but I did use the sale of about 10 PSA cards, including that Chase, to finance the purchases of my SGC 40 Green Portrait Cobb and SGC 20 O'Hara St. Louis. So, you sometimes have to sell some to buy some.

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Posted By: Bob

I went through a phase when I wanted to get rid of "everything not pre-World War 1" and sold off 7-8 years ago: exmt sets of 1955 Bowman, 1956 Topps, 1959 Topps, 1960 Topps, 1961 Topps, 1962 Topps, 1965 Topps all baseball, Topps standups and a 1951 Topps Magic Football set exmt, 1955 Topps All-American football set exmt, and exmt sets of 1954 and 1955 Bowman football and 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, and 1966-1978 football along with various other cards and sets.
Big mistake, the prices have skyrocketed since then.
I also went through the "I don't want to collect these sets anymore" and sold off some really nice E-97s (had 90% of the set), a large group of E98 duplicates, many 1911 and 1912 Zeenuts in great shape and complete sets in about excellent of E95 and E96.
Huge mistake.
I plowed all that cash back in to other cards though so I didn't come out too badly and have re-started collecting the Zeenuts again, at a much higher price though, sadly

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Posted By: James Feagin

1955 Esskay Box to a board member for a lot less than my other one sold for.

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Posted By: davidcycleback

I had an ad nauseum. With the original box.

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Posted By: John H.

In 1989 I sold a very nice 1971-72 OPC hockey set (Dryden, Lafleur, Dionne), that I had collected as a 13 year old, for $160 to finance my growing love for all of those new and beautiful cards that were hitting the market. Realizing the idiocy of that decision, I have since repurchased an equally nice set for about $1,000.

For the next few years I purged myself of most of my childhood baby boomer toys to support the purchases of those very valuable early 90's card sets.

John

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Posted By: Steve Dawson

N28 Clarkson, Kelly and Keefe
N162 Kelly
N172 Kelly (Portrait, Chicago)
T206 Demmitt, Elberfeld, Lundgren, Smith, Kleinow, Dahlen, Brown (all the rare ones)
T227 Cobb
T201 Cobb/Crawford
E90-1 Lajoie
1914 CJ McGraw

I collected all of these from 1979 to 1985, and sold them all in 1991

Edited to add that I also had many post-WWII cards and sets, including the 1941 Bowman Ted Williams, 1953 and 1955 Topps complete sets, 1954 Bowman Williams, 1954 Topps Aaron, 1952 and 1953 Bowman Mantles, all Topps Mantles from 1960-69, etc etc etc.....

Collected in the 1980s and again, sold in 1991



Steve

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Saw this old thread, we've all gone through this but I wondered how many have started, now, re-collecting those sets. I know I have as I feel the time is right.

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Originally Posted by Archive

Posted By: Ed McCollum

Had 113 different Star Wars figures, still on the cards, bought between 1977 and 1984. Got married and sold all for .50¢ each at a flea market in Lincoln in 1989. But we were broke, and food seemed a better investment.

Wow. Those are worth approximately 80 million dollars today.

[JP]

Really? I know they are worth a lot but not that much!

I've got at least 50-100 still on cards and quite a few of the ships, worlds, etc. still in box mint. Same goes with a few of the original transformers. I'm the perfect age for those and my parents seemed to have bought two of everything...one for me and my brothers to play with, the other as a backup when they inevitably got broken. But we revered Star Wars and Transformers enough to play nice. My parents to this day still have them locked away in storage.