Best Long Term Investment for $1000???

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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..