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Posted By: DJ

Are you serious?

"challenge is discovering the stuff".

Discovering it? I assume with the cards you have that you have $$$. So how is it discovering it if you are just going to pay Mastro big dollars for when it comes up for auction unless you are knocking on doors hoping to be the originator of the "find". There are about as many T210 Casey Stengel's as there are Oscar Charleston autographs out there...and both will set you back about $6K.

"For cards, I feel as long as the cash is there, one can get whatever I want".

Um, yeah, that's not true at all. How about collector's who search for Peck and Snyder's? e107's? Cullivan's? Lone Jacks? D359's? T206 Uzit backs? SF Hess's? Just So's? Kalamazoo's? G and B's? Some cards are so hard, they are "myths". Sure 1952 Topps and Goudey's are easy, but I think people who find the formentioned to be the "Holy Grail" will disagree as well.

I'm not against autographs at all. I have a fine collection (Mathewson check, ten page Cobb letter, 1930 Yankees ball etc.), but I have a feeling that this Forum isn't exactly catered to you.

DJ