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Posted By: barrysloate

If the bottom fell out of the market- and I don't think that will happen- somebody will of course be buying baseball cards because they will all still have some determined value. But the pool of buyers will be a lot smaller.

Regarding the drop in the stamp hobby, I was not active twenty years ago; but one main difference in stamp collecting is it is not drawing in a new generation of collectors, and the older ones are leaving us. There are enough serious collectors today though that will pay a big premium for high quality rare issues. The more plentiful ones, however, can be had for a song.