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Old 04-23-2005, 08:24 PM
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Default Why did you sell your cherished pre-war cards??

Posted By: Anonymous

Same here. In the past year I've sold virtually all of my card collection. I had a few pre-war (a 1921 E121 Ruth psa 3, a 35 goudey ruth/maranville, a low-grade Turkey Red Johnson, and a few T206's, including a low-grade Tinker) and also some 52 Topps, including a Mantle rookie psa 2, plus lots of 60s, 70s and 80s cards. I loved all those cards, but it wasn't nearly as painful as I thought it would be simply because I really needed the money.

I'm fairly recently married and have a son who's about to turn 2 and we're in the process of buying a house. Where else could I come up with $25,000 in a matter of months, unless I were to knock over a few 7-Elevens? I would have loved to have kept the cards and I used to swear I'd never part with them, but my son needs to live in a house, not a tiny apartment. And I want to get him in a good school district. My one real regret is that I won't be able to give him the cards. That would have been a cool thing to do. But what's even cooler is giving him a yard to play in.

Maybe when he's older, he'll catch the bug. Of course, the first thing he'll probably ask is, Jeez, why'd you sell all those great cards?

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