Early 90s is my nostalgia, but the players I collect mostly started in the late 80s and so I have to buy them for career collections. I follow other millennial collectors on Twitter who are nostalgic over junk wax and Tiffany. I like Ryan Fagan, @myjunkwax, who opens a pack of cards each day, shows who was in the pack, and asks for other collectors to tweet memories. I also like @RetroCardSnaps, who does something similar. We all know that it's silly to talk about worthless cards, but it brings us joy to talk about youthful memories.
I'm glad you told the man that it was probably a $20 box. Even if he bought it for $99, I assume he was interested because it holds some sort of nostalgia for him too.
As an aside comment, I collect Barry Larkin. One card that is very desirable among Larkin collectors is 88 Score Samples. Larkin is green, but in the regular set he is purple. That green Larkin sample is boo-koo bucks! Someone posted one on our Facebook page a month or two ago and I was jealous of his purchase, but excited too! That was only the second I've ever seen aside from the one on ebay for $4500. Here's the screenshot of the ebay card.
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Barry Larkin, Joey Votto, Tris Speaker, 1930-45 Cincinnati Reds, T206 Cincinnati
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