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[QUOTE=Vintageclout;2001831]Here are some solid options. Remember, great eye appeal is a “must” for any purchase:
- A dead-centered PSA 5 1951 Bowman Mantle Rookie - way undervalued vs. it’s 1952 Topps Mantle peer. Lots of growth potential. But, it has to have 55/45 to 50/50 centering. I value your opinion, what do you think of this stained but very nice looking Mantle RC at around 8k on Ebay? Just curious, I was contemplating it but the stains.......let me know what you think about future value on this one, thanks! Peace, Mike Attachment 411051 |
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Not sure what Gary Vee has to do with anything though. I’d love to go back 20-30 years and buy some vintage baseball cards. You could be very close to a millionaire if you kept the right cards until today...There’s not much else you could “invest” in that would give that type of return. |
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Anything Jackie Robinson and the 52T Mantle appear to be the early majority here and rightfully so.
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The best '54 Bowman Ted Williams I could find. Love that card and its' story.
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However, regardless of price, the advice to invest in land that is usable is good advice in and of itself. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G930A using Tapatalk |
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I'm not going to break it all down, because that would take forever. But a couple of highlights: the lack of enough intrinsic value does not mean that something is not an "investment". Many collectibles, including comic books and baseball cards, have had a generally strong and liquid market for at least 40 years now. Anyone not categorizing goods like those as investments being highly unrealistic. Sure you could lose your shirt if something highly unexpected goes really wrong. Just like you if you bought GE stock in the last 20 years (which was considered for decades to be the hallmark of a "safe", low risk stock of an impenetrable conglomerate behemoth). Or if you ventured into the restaurant business and that new place went belly up. And yes, I know, diversification and the long term returns of the overall stock market. But tell me how your stock portfolio did if you needed to grow you money from 1930 to 1950. Or from 1960 to 1980. Even if you could count on the future results of the market being as amazing as the last 100 years overall (which you can't, or even close), there could easily be long problematic periods that ruin your expectations. Anyway....there is nothing wrong at all with conflating hobby and investment. And that's how many of them function, regardless of what anyone's opinion is. But there's a lot wrong with categorizing all these different ventures that fit the conventional wisdom of "investment" as rock solid ideas that could never hurt you that badly, while brushing off other ideas that not even be any riskier in the end. |
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Any answer that does not conclude with one card produced between 1945 and 2020 obviously does not answer the OP's question.
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Yep, if someone wants to collect for just the fun of it, then that's great. But that has nothing to do with the viability of cards functioning as an investment, or so much else that was said. |
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It's as if the very shiny other side of that coin (it causing your own cards to go up in value and providing more liquidity for the market) doesn't even matter much. Too easy to focus on just the negative sometimes, I guess |
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I just wouldn't do it right now. The market is moving too fast which is normally a bad time to buy anything.
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A gentleman once told me that as a kid in 1953 he was taken to a Yankees game. He had saved money to buy stuff. Outside Yankee Stadium, on his way in, he saw a vender had 1952 Topps cards for sale. He bought a pack, and found they were high number cards, cards he and his friends didn't know existed... Mantle was in that pack. He pulled out his saved money and bought the whole box. I mention this to get to something he told me. In the long run, he'd have more value had he saved the box and all of the wrappers, kept them nice and protected, and thrown away the cards....
I'm a bit of a dinosaur and a curmudgeon. But golly, the mass printed cards of the 80s and 90s sure deflated a bunch of would be kid card collectors. COVID isn't helping. We need young kids to care about the game, its history, and old cardboard so we can sell this stuff to someone else one day... If I had $20k to spend on collectables and I didn't need the money for living expenses, bills, debts, or investments.... I'd try to buy a green white border Cobb, an Old Judge Delehanty, and a T210 Stengel. But I wouldn't call that investing. |
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Think we may need a primer on meaning of Post-War. |
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It's one thing to go along with his many misconceptions about the topic. But it's simply comical to snidely hint that those who disagree aren't using sound logic or common sense |
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This one would have just fit into your budget @ $19,350
https://www.ebay.com/itm/1948-Leaf-J...4AAOSwdg9fEzlw |
Whatever it is, make sure it was not sold by pwcc. In the future, and currently, at least a minority of collectors are avoiding cards previously sold through them.
I'd go with a solid centered Aaron RC, or 52 May's. Both will come into the spot light in the next decade. |
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