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Originally Posted by murphy8276
Or cleaned again and rewashed until most cannot recognize it is the actual original (altered). 
You may be right about the overall health of the hobby, but the hobby has changed enough to threaten what collecting was actually about before it became the lottery. |
Good point Murph (I always have to call Murphys Murph in honor of the great SF Giants trainer).
As a pre war collector the market constantly forces me to examine my choices on what I want my collection to look like, these decisions are now big financial decisions when they may not have been in the past, when spending 5k or 10k on a card I better be damn sure that card fits my collection. For me it's a 1200 piece jigsaw puzzle, I've bought pieces that don't fit but every piece that does will remain until I die and my kids can do what they want with it.
There's still a few of us that ascribe to the old school collecting philosophy, it ain't as easy as it used to be though.