I know a pre war collector school teacher, who has collected for years. Nothing is graded, he plans someday getting them graded and consigning them as his heirs have no interest in cards. He is pretty mum about what he has, but he used to moonlight with an auctioneer who auctioned many card collections off. I know he has many Ty Cobb pre war cards. I'd say in 10-20 years they might hit the market.
I know another man who I worked for 20 years ago who was a college prof and owned a computer business on the side. He was a big collector, at one time had at least one complete 33 Goudey set (or so he said) and had sold another one 20 years prior to that for a down payment on a new house. He put ads in local papers in the 70's and 80's and went all over the midwest buying up collections. His stuff may not hit the market as his son is also a big collector, none of it is graded either.
I'm not a big collector by my 100 or so T 206's are not graded either and may never be unless I decide to sell them in 20-30 years.
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