Do Pre-War Collectors buy Modern Cards Featurin Game Used Items of Pre-War Players

[HRBAKER]

Originally Posted by 68Hawk

Yup, same problem I run in to with Stickley furniture, Lalique perfume bottles, first edition books with so called first page publishing dates, corvette stingray with matching number chasis/engine numbers (I mean, HTF would I know if someone hadn't ground down a plate and substituted with fakery?), the food at French Laundry 'supposedly' cooked by some well known chef, yada yada.

I mean, if you don't want to believe shit, you just don't want to believe.

Oh I believe, I believe there is a likelihood that a lot of it is sh*t as you say. The same as with your other examples I assume.

I could be very wrong and I really hope I am.

[68Hawk]

Originally Posted by HRBAKER

Oh I believe, I believe there is a likelihood that a lot of it is sh*t as you say. The same as with your other examples I assume.

I could be very wrong and I really hope I am.

And that's totally fair enough and a valid way of viewing things that purport to be something.
But it makes you a terrible candidate to be a collector.
And in the end, it's the suspension of belief, the immersion in feeling you are just inches away from greatness - whether of design, or act, or happenstance, and that being so close evokes thoughts that bring you meaning.

I enjoy it, so I collect.
Art, sculpture, sports memorabilia and cards, a few coins that have connection to moments or places, etc.

I don't think it's for everyone, but to diminish or question the voracity of the items without any proof just to naysay.....

Hey, I live in the USA and plenty of people here seem to believe in a 6,000 year old earth and creation, described in a series of books written by different hands at different times as the word of god, and which gives us our reason for being....but sheesh, a card company actually including material they say they're including is a bridge too far.