Sweet Caporal pins, Armor Coins, Tobacco silks and leathers, Police Gazette premiums etc. are more likely to be collected by baseball card than memorabilia collectors and, obviously, they aren't cards. They fall into the "trading card genre."
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Originally Posted by Al C.risafulli
My opinion: the memorabilia and card markets are typically not tied to one another in any way other than "a rising tide lifts all boats."
I tend to think of a Venn diagram, with card people in one circle, autograph people in another circle, game worn in another, and memorabilia in a fourth - there are places they intersect, and certainly people who collect all four, but I don't think a run-up in one area negatively impacts prices in the other.
I wouldn't hesitate to run high-end memorabilia in an auction during a time when card prices were strong, and vice-versa.
-Al
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