Best Long Term Investment for $1000???

[jasonc]

Originally Posted by the 'stache

I second this.

Agreed. I know this is a postwar board, but a decent T206 Johnson Portrait was 300 to 400 dollars a few years ago, a similar card could be 1000 today. It's really nice looking card displaying the greatest pitcher of all-time. I don't think you could go wrong with that. Just my opinion of course.

There is always the best looking card T206 from Speaker, Matty, Lajoie, C.Young, you could get for 1000. I would say Ty Cobb, but that is out of reach now.

I know these won't jump huge, but 10 or 20 years from now, it would be interesting to see what these cards are worth at that time.

[bigfanNY]

When I started collecting cards from the 30's and regionals were in high demand. There is definitely something of a generational demand curve that switched to the early 50's with 52 topps becoming a very significant set. T206 is also a very popular set and always will be the king of tobacco issues. ( When I started L1 leathers and S81 silks were in high demand but are just to rare to generate large collector interest.
So if I was starting a collection of $1,000 plus cards I would get a t206 Hall of Famer I liked in psa 6 or above.
The market is starting to like Barry Bonds and Clemens more and more I would look at a Bonds before Clemens.
Some of the late 70's early 1980's names like Gwynn ( I have begun looking at PSA 10 Gwynn's myself and own 2 psa 9's)
Hope this helps op and dose not irritate too many..