Negro League Baseball Collectibles Update

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I wasn't sure whether to resurrect the below Net 54 thread from 5 years ago or start a new one so I decided to do the latter and just reference the old link:

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthr...+league+prices

I would like to ask for opinions/insight from those in the know as well as anyone interested in this segment of the vintage baseball collectibles market. While interest and prices in the market were soaring just a few years ago, it appears to me that both have fallen off significantly over the past year or two.

Since I am still an avid collector of Negro League material myself, I can say that I have closely watched all major auctions over the past couple of years and found an extremely limited number of top-quality items. I do collect only photos, postcards, cards, basically anything picturing the players so no autographed baseballs, contracts, etc.

My logic being that an extremely limited supply of something over time would drive up the prices of the few items to come to market but I don't see that happening at all. Next question logically then is, what happened? A couple/few major collectors who jumped in a few years ago already gotten out, but then where did all of the top-quality items go that they bought? Maybe long-time collectors no longer actively buying?

I would love to hear everyone's opinions on the subject so fire away........