Identity of the Titus Hoarder Revealed!

[biggsdaddycool]

Originally Posted by 1952boyntoncollector

even more weird are the more modern cards..people buying 1970s cards with 'low pop' but the pop gets added to all the time...heck lots of unopened packs out there was well. for cards in that era....at least in the t206s there aren't 1000s of unopened packs that can have cards that can be added to POP

Understood with the very, VERY few unopened T206 type packs around, but there are raw cards in attics, and more specifically, safe deposit boxes that people haven't seen in 40 years, this I promise, and many more times in the future we will continue to be shocked when these are finally brought to public awareness.

[z28jd]

While it is crazy to assume that all the T206's that exist still are known to exist and not hidden in an old attic, it is also crazy assume that all the cards that exist now will always exist. Unless every card is put in an everything-proof cube, cards get taken out of circulation via natural disasters, fires, accidents and hundreds of vintage cards are in the mail at any given point. Cards also get taken out of the known category too.

[1952boyntoncollector]

Originally Posted by biggsdaddycool

Understood with the very, VERY few unopened T206 type packs around, but there are raw cards in attics, and more specifically, safe deposit boxes that people haven't seen in 40 years, this I promise, and many more times in the future we will continue to be shocked when these are finally brought to public awareness.

right but t206s are not kept by the original collector anymore....whoever is dying with these cards didn't get them originally ...when cards are obtained for free they tend to be sold for not top dollars since every dollar collected is profit....so there was more incentive for the t206s that were valuable to be on the market already from these new non original collectors...there are a lot of 1950s original collectors I would gather that their cards may be hitting the market for the first time when they die....as their kids/heirs will be getting the cards for free...

[ullmandds]

Originally Posted by 1952boyntoncollector

when cards are obtained for free they tend to be sold for not top dollars since every dollar collected is profit...

i dont agree with this statement at all. It is the rarer...more valuable inherited collections that DO find their ways to the big auction houses and DO realize top dollar. ALthough by flooding the market with rarities like mint graded e98's and red hindu t206's there can be bargains to be found.