Memorabilia as an investment

[Snapolit1]

Buy what you like and what feels meaningful, but it's common sense that the wider market for late 19th century and early 2Oth century stuff is dying off. A few cards notwithstanding, very few people are going to feel enough of a connection with an 1880 photo or ball to drop a significant amount of money on it. Time moves on. Pretty soon the hot "vintage" collectible might be a Doc Gooden glove from 1985.

I think the entire memorabilia category has fallen through the floor market wise. I have a ton of cool photos and some cool memorabilia and few of them would likely fetch more than what I paid for them if I consigned them tomorrow to an AH.

There will always been the insanely rich guy who wants to pay $800,000 for a hall of famers game used bat, but that says nothing about regular stuff. Look at BST. Some really cool stuff has been listed for seemingly years without a sniff.