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Tom Boblittinteresting topic. I think the Mastronet's and SCP/Sotheby's and other auctions have moved groups that were previously separate into converging with the addition of the 'Americana' auctions. The coin, comic, presidential, art, etc, etc, etc guys used to stay in their silo's just like the card guys (and Julie and Joan now....) stayed in theirs.
I bet if you delved into the deep dark secrets of some of the databases out there that these behemoth Auction house have is that you'd see a LOT of cross-pollenation now between the different types of collectors/investors. While these folks (and most of US) collect because we love the subject matter, many of them (and some of US) collect as investments too. Our space (pre-war cards) is MUCH more crowded that it was 1-2-5-10 years ago. Just a fakkalife.......