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Originally Posted by Snapolit1
I love the notion on the board that modern collecting is all about greed, while prewar collecting is about purity and everything wonderful in the world. Every other thread on this board in the past 12 months has been about predicting price appreciation of cards and which card is going to be the next to explode in price. Yes, some prewar collectors don't care about making money off their hobby, but obviously many do.
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Agreed.
Some of us started (gasp) 40-50 or more years ago when this was something we did out of the sheer love of the games and the cards. I mean, in 1977 if you told someone you collected baseball cards they'd look at you like you were an idiot. I find that early spirit still holds with many collectors, of every era's cards. No one has a monopoly on greed either. Like it or not, though, if you are going to collect you have to consider the finances.