I'm with Michael. I enjoy collecting because of the history of the game, the players, and the cards. The value actually gets in the way. Value makes it more difficult to obtain certain cards I want, and when a card I have can be sold for a bunch of dollars then it doesn't make sense to me to have that much money tied up in that piece of cardboard.
I'm not certain the question has been addressed, or maybe it was not well phrased. I believe there are 'dormant' collections out there; ones that are in a few boxes in a dresser drawer or attic, that haven't been disturbed for 30 or 40 years.
Separate from that, I'm certain that there are old collections out there that are 'active', but are outside the sphere that some of us see... There are old collectors who don't know about or care about Net54, about eBay, about the big auctions... some of them probably don't do the internet or email. I don't doubt they still write letters and trade cards through the mail. Those collections aren't 'dormant'; they are off of the radar of many of us.
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