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Hank, the majority of my collection was vintage Detroit Tigers ballplayers. So many common, less common, and obscure player autographs. So I immediately limited the interested market to Tigers (although some played for other teams too). Market has continued to be strong for HOFers, especially Ruth, etc. And Hugh Jennings has held up extremely well too. But for comparison sake, I'll reference the tougher 1955 Dodgers I also had in my collection. Bert Hamric, Karl Spooner, Frank Kellert. Generally I found that both selling prices and interest was stronger for those three in 2015-2018 when I was thinking of selling than in 2022 when I did sell. Every once in a great while someone will post in BST some interest in buying 1955 Dodger autographs, but I do feel interest has waned over the years. And I think there are generally less collectors of less/obscure ballplayers now than when I started 25-30 years ago. Perhaps Jody Birkholm would like to weigh in with his experience.
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