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steve kChris - Interesting post. I get to ponder this myself every now and then. In the "short term" the prospects for increases in baseball card prices are excellent - no great prediction there. No one of course can accurately predict the long term future but I believe that pre-1970 baseball cards will continue to be popular and grow in value. I firmly believe that pre-WW2 cards will percentage-wise increase the most.
I had both a decent size coin collection and baseball card collection as a kid in the 1960s. Ask anyone back then which would be by far the best investment and most valuable one day and everyone would have said the coin collection. Turned out to be just the opposite. My family and friends know that I am a "collector" and have always asked me what items will be valuable some day that aren't really worth anything now - along the lines of baseball cards that sold for a penny, now selling for many thousands of dollars. I remember telling everybody back in the 1980s that "fast food" wrappers, cups, etc., from McDonalds, etc., might be valuable someday. Figuring since everybody throws these things away, then maybe someday they could be scarce collectables. Seemed like a good idea at the time - LOL. I haven't seen where any of this "fast food" stuff is valuable. So who knows what will be actively collected and valuable in the future which isn't of much value today? But it is interesting to try to predict.