[Belfast1933]

I spent about 5 hours at the Wilmington Mass show yesterday - a great collection of vintage… 2nd only to the national over the summer.

But my takeaway was that dealers looked uneasy and I hear quite a few say buying was down, especially for higher end cards. At least one dealer said they were not coming back next year. I saw some fairly prominent dealers with some heavily discounted offers for graded cards from the 50’s and 60’s (though, I didn’t see a ton of stated discounts for pre-war. But not a ton of sales either)

It surely feels to me that the top of the crazy card run up has come and gone and I’m not sure we’re near the bottom yet.

(I’m not at all complaining! Would love to be able to stretch my hobby budget further in the next year or so. But I might be more nervous if I “invested” in higher end modern cards, based on what I saw yesterday)