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Posted By: scott brockelman

I know of 2 others attempts by a collector/investor that bought unique 1 of a kind groups and attempted to break them and keep a cherry or 2 only to find out that the value of the group far exceeded the individual pieces that made it up. This in not like breaking a t206 set. Once the original pieces of the puzzle are gone it is worth far less.

AND to call them type cards is a stretch, they are CDV's, they were never intended to be marketed as a collectible, but as a keepsake. Whereas in your Kalamazoo Bat analogy they were used to promote a product. I doubt many collectors are searching for a Warren Studios CDV. Apparently the decision by someone at Krause to start including every known and unknown CDV and cabinet card in the guide is driving this idea. You could just buy any Warren studios CDV for a type card.

If buyers of these types of items can't afford to keep them intact they should not buy them.

Scott