The ridiculously rich are probably bored by easy cash purchases, too, and instead strive to collect the rare in terms of
TIME. They want to collect things that they may not be able to find before they die. Because if cash isn't a problem, time is surely a challenge.
My biggest sadness in not being able to bring home a signed T206 card of Ty Cobb in an auction last September was not that there aren't others our there, but rather, how much
TIME would elapse before I find another one. How much of my life would pass without the enjoyment of owning it. And would I live long enough to wait out the next dry spell between sightings. Cash isn't the problem for advanced collections.
TIME is.
My signed T206 Cy Young card is not for sale and is likely the only one in existence. The next owner of this card is going to have to outlast my heirs' interest in this card.
