Dmitri Young collection

[Delray Vintage]

I stopped buying cards in about 2000 because i decided that i would rather buy a george washington letter for the price of a goudy psa 8 ruth. I got nightmares thinking that mass produced cardboard can be worth as much as a letter written and signed by washington, lincoln, franklin. But after about 8 years I missed my cards and started buying again. The moral is that 2 inches of cardboard can be worth hundreds of thousands to someone and the allure is powerful.

i still have the letters and treasure them. Do i love my washington more than my 1887 connie mack psa 7? Honestly no, they are equal to me probably in their emotional value and are about the same monetary value. I will tell you that for cards like dimitri young's clemente I would rather have a 400k in letters because you could have all the the founding fathers plus lincoln, davey crockett, john paul jones and every other american legend.