I can also confirm the idea in the 1980's that is was bad form to get an expensive card signed. It was pretty much the consensus that an autograph on a nice card hurt the value, not by a little but by A LOT.
Honestly, it never made much sense to me and I should have followed my gut that that wasn't going to be that way forever. I did to a degree and picked up a few nice cards but I never had the available funds as a kid to do much with the thought process.
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