Postwar Vintage vs Modern ?

[cardsagain74]

Originally Posted by cesarcap

I indeed was trying to joke around about the PSA 10 grade although I do find it absurd that 86 fleer hoops (same era essentially) in PSA 10 buys houses currently.

A year ago, a set of those PSA 10s would've gotten you a shack in a real small town. Now it'll buy a nice 2-3 BR in the suburbs.

What's even crazier is it's far from just the best football/basketball/hockey "new vintage" cards of the '80s that have appreciated that way. Most other '80s PSA 9s and 10s of Gretzky, Lemieux, Jordan, Bird, Magic, etc have done just as well. Stuff totally in the background like an 84 OPC Gretzky or '88 Fleer Bird in those grades has gone up just as much.

The fact that an '88 Fleer Magic Johnson PSA 9 costs $50 now (when you could barely give them away for $10 a year ago) might say even more about the $ coming into the hobby than the gains in the headline cards.

[cesarcap]

I also find it somewhat shocking that some of these Fleer 86 new money folk seem to have little/ no idea about the potential for highly graded but possibly trimmed 86 Fleers MJ's out there. The FLIP and $$$ is the drug not necessarily the card...

[ALR-bishop]

With the exception of one set all my cards were issued between 1948 and 2020. I do not care where anyone draws a line between old and new. (The SCD Standard Catalog, when still being issued, quit listing new stuff after 1980)

All I know is I am getting old and have gone from mint to fair...but not yet encased,

[cardsagain74]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

With the exception of one set all my cards were issued between 1948 and 2020. I do not care where anyone draws a line between old and new. (The SCD Standard Catalog, when still being issued, quit listing new stuff after 1980)

All I know is I am getting old and have gone from mint to fair...but not yet encased,

In the last five years, there's been an OC qualifier for too much on my stomach side. Which needs to stop before it's MC