Wich card is untouchable in your collection

[philliesphan]

Good Guy Jay Wolt said something profound that has stuck for a long time, something along the lines of "We don't own them, we just borrow them for a while".

There's certainly a handful of cards I'd be less likely to sell/trade than others, but I have no delusions of grandeur that I plan to hold any of my cards for decades unforeseen

[DeanH3]

Originally Posted by philliesphan

Good Guy Jay Wolt said something profound that has stuck for a long time, something along the lines of "We don't own them, we just borrow them for a while".

There's certainly a handful of cards I'd be less likely to sell/trade than others, but I have no delusions of grandeur that I plan to hold any of my cards for decades unforeseen

Early on in my collecting career I believed in the "I would never ever sell." But I have learned that I can survive the sale of prized piece. The statement above sums it up precisely for me.

[Sean]

I guess that I would never sell the rare Merkles that I own (Pirate, Brown Lenox, Uzit) because without all of them the whole group is diminished.

But I really want to say that I love those Japanese Ruth cards. I only saw one for the first time a couple months ago, but I've decided that that card will be my "holy grail" for 2014.

[CW]

Cool cards, guys, and great stories to go along with them!

This card would easily top my list of "untouchables" since its sentimental value outweighs its monetary value by about 1 billion to one. This card was in one of the very first packs of baseball cards I ever opened, and The Bird was my favorite player at the time.

On top of that, my dear Mom added it to her small collection of baseball memorabilia for a couple decades, then I inherited it when she passed on from this life back in 2010. I will never sell it as it reminds me of my childhood and my Mother, plus nobody would likely want to buy it





...and then this card would be THE last card I'd ever sell, as it's one of my favorite cards to look at, plus it would be the most difficult to replace. It's also the one card in my collection that's generated the most requests to sell, but the collector in me just can't do it.