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Originally Posted by samosa4u
And that has already happened. Vintage HOF rookies have been brought to crazy levels by the modern crowd. For example, you used to be able to buy a PSA 1 Leaf Jackie for under a grand, but now you need 5 - 6k. You need about 25k just to own the ugliest 52T Mantle you can find.
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When I started my signed 1953 Topps project in 2014, Stachel Paige was a $1,000 card, and there was always one, if not a few, on eBay. Maybe $1,200 if the buyer had to have it now, or $800 if the seller was trying to move it quickly, and it stayed at that level until the pandemic. In 2020, it started becoming a $2,000 card, and I figured there were some old ones being brought out of the woodwork by the higher prices and things would settle down. Instead, it has continued to climb; I was blown out on one a few months ago at over $8,000, and he doesn't come up as often as he used to either.