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T206CollectorI think some people collect baseball cards for status-related reasons. The only trouble is, for those people, just having the cards isn't enough, because if the collection isn't public then nobody will be able to bestow upon the collector the status that he yearns for. Kind of like, if a collector had 3 T206 Wagners but nobody knew about it, would anyone think that collector was the coolest collector in the world.
Every time I read a post like this, I cannot help but read into it a certain amount of asking for status to be bestowed upon the author. But as has been more eloquently written throughout this thread, status is earned and is seldom given, either by asking for it or paying for it. Moreover, trying to rank one's collection against someone else's is not only elitist, but also fundamentally flawed in premise, since what makes a truly remarkable baseball card collection is as subjective as defining beauty in art. Money, or how much a collection or card is worth, is a poor substitute for defining a truly exemplary collection.
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