One piece of advice for a vintage collector starting out

[oldjudge]

One last thing—most of the time when someone gives you advice involving absolutes it is safe to take that advice with a large grain of salt. People like to say that collecting Cobb, Ruth, Mantle etc is a sure thing. Over time they will ALWAYS increase in value. They have certainly increased in value over the last thirty years but there is absolutely no assurance that they will increase in value over the next thirty. In fact, there is no assurance that many people will even be collecting these little pieces of paper in thirty years. Buy what you like with your disposable income but don’t assume that what you buy will be worth more when it comes time to sell it. These collectibles have no intrinsic value—remember that.