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Old 05-11-2012, 01:34 PM
SteveMitchell SteveMitchell is offline
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Default 1912 was to 1937 what 1987 is to us today plus inflation plus 100X collectors

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Originally Posted by Jay Wolt View Post
As low as those prices were, this was during the depression and sellers probably had few takers.
I think Jay has placed things in the right context: this was the Great Depression (or at least the greatest we have observed so far) and sellers - even at these comparatively low values - had fewer buyers.

Furthermore, the time frame involved for some of our favorites (T205, T206, T3, T202, etc.) is roughly a quarter century prior to the entry of CCB into the marketplace. Take 25 years off 2012 and what do you have? Cards from 1987 are readily available for pennies: (inflated pennies at that compared with the 1937 cents when a nickel bought a LARGE candy bar - or so I'm told by my mother and mother-in-law who were youths in 1937.)

Finally, the number of collectors today is easily hundreds of times the few who seriously collected mostly T, N, E and the few R cards available in the late 1930s.

Finally (yes, really, finally) when I was involved as editor of Sports Scoop magazine in 1973-74, we published a poll of subscribers' estimates of the values of popularly collected cards. The general criticism of that poll was summarized by one letter I recall: that people sent in the prices they would like to pay, not the real market values at the time. I think that view may be held, at least to some degree, with regard to CCB's values 75 years ago.
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