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Old 03-27-2013, 12:03 PM
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Not that I could afford them, but that is how I always thought of the Garters also. I love collecting baseball, but not so fond of collecting guys in their underwear.
The is definitely a "to each his own" item. The estimate says it could go for 100k+. If I was buying it to keep, I wouldn't pay $5 for it. Obviously for resale purposes I'd pay a lot more, but it would also be sold in the next upcoming auction. No desire whatsoever to have a cartoon drawing of baseball players in their skivvies, and could you imagine the reaction you would get when you showed this to non-collectors and tell them how much you paid?

I think there is a reason these things are rare. Who in their right mind would save them in the first place, especially back when they had zero resale value?
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