Hobby importance isn't always rewarded with sky-high valuations considering:
- The N162 Goodwin Beecher (first football card) can be bought in decent grade for ~$2,000-$5,000
- The T51 Murad Williams Number on Front (first basketball card) can be bought in decent grade for ~$200
- The first generic hockey trade cards pre-dating 1900 can be had for $100-500, depending on grade and issue. C55/C66 individual cards for a few hundred dollars in good grade.
As investments all of the above would seem to be a good value cache; they are all relatively rare and have great significance to their sports. That said, short of any of them becoming 'iconic' via a string of high-profile transactions, quite sure that appeal will never come close to matching the star power of Cobb or Trout. In this sense, Peck and Snyder has far outpaced its 'first-produced' brethren.