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Originally Posted by Hankphenom
Just curious, Stan. Are you doing this for investment purposes, or for collecting, as in fulfilling a long-time dream of owning a 52 Mantle? As a memorabilia guy, it strikes me as giving up a lot of nice-looking cards of great players for one nice-looking card of a great player. Having said that, I would never want to disparage ANY choice any collector ever made. To each his own, and that's what makes this hobby so darned interesting. I hope you snag your dream Mantle soon.
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Lifelong dream, the 311 is my grail. Ive wanted it for 40 years since I saw it on the cover of Baseball Cards magazine. Plus, I'm getting older and I was always a set guy. I got some satisfaction from putting them together but at the end of the day I'd put em on a shelf and rarely look at them. Lately I am thinking of pivoting to singles---top HOFers/key cards. Instead of 100 Clementes maybe just 2 or 3 really good/rare ones. Moving 100,000 cards that I never looked at or really enjoyed in one shot to get my 1 grail card that I will probably sleep with at night is more appealing to me. I am just a collector and while I could probably just buy a 311 in a "1" (its borderline financially) I would rather "trade" what I sold today for it. It's liberating, in a way, too---even though I left $$ on the table moving it in bulk, I want that Mantle. Having space is nice, "starting over"/new direction is pretty appealing too.
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