Auction amounts - how high is high

[53toppscollector]

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The obvious caveat here is compound interest.

Your stock portfolio compounds, so the amount you have invested every year would increase exponentially in an index fund. If you had bought one Red Cobb in 2010 and held it, you still only own 1 Red Cobb today. I picked those cards mostly at random (and quickly) just to look at, they are all iconic cards in the hobby, obviously, and their value is different from a 1987 Topps Wade Boggs. I wanted to use the 1989 UD Griffey, but there were just too many sales in a PSA 10 and the site wasn't loading properly, lol. I thought this chart was interesting to just to see how drastically those cards have shot up in the last 12 years

I used VCP to get the average sale price for each of the cards in the given year in the grade noted. For the S&P 500 numbers, I just exported the closing price for every day from 2010 through today, and took the closing number on the last day of the year for every year. For 2022, obviously I used yesterday's closing price, from here

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EG...stedClose=true

[Johnny630]

Originally Posted by 53toppscollector

One more chart



The obvious caveat here is compound interest.

Your stock portfolio compounds, so the amount you have invested every year would increase exponentially in an index fund. If you had bought one Red Cobb in 2010 and held it, you still only own 1 Red Cobb today. I picked those cards mostly at random (and quickly) just to look at, they are all iconic cards in the hobby, obviously, and their value is different from a 1987 Topps Wade Boggs. I wanted to use the 1989 UD Griffey, but there were just too many sales in a PSA 10 and the site wasn't loading properly, lol. I thought this chart was interesting to just to see how drastically those cards have shot up in the last 12 years

I used VCP to get the average sale price for each of the cards in the given year in the grade noted. For the S&P 500 numbers, I just exported the closing price for every day from 2010 through today, and took the closing number on the last day of the year for every year. For 2022, obviously, I used yesterday's closing price, from here

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EG...stedClose=true

Excellent Chart Thank You!

This is what I have been saying for the past several years if you’re collecting as an investment you want the best players, the best well-known card issue(not oddball) of the highest graded nicest centered you can find. This Chart Shows that!

1. Ruth
2. Cobb
3. Jackie
4. Mantle
5. Mays

[JeremyW]

Originally Posted by Johnny630

Excellent Chart Thank You!

This is what I have been saying for the past several years if you’re collecting as an investment you want the best players, the best well-known card issue(not oddball) of the highest graded nicest centered you can find. This Chart Shows that!

1. Ruth
2. Cobb
3. Jackie
4. Mantle
5. Mays

I think oddball issues are solid with any of these players.

[Shoeless Moe]

Originally Posted by 53toppscollector

One more chart



The obvious caveat here is compound interest.

Your stock portfolio compounds, so the amount you have invested every year would increase exponentially in an index fund. If you had bought one Red Cobb in 2010 and held it, you still only own 1 Red Cobb today. I picked those cards mostly at random (and quickly) just to look at, they are all iconic cards in the hobby, obviously, and their value is different from a 1987 Topps Wade Boggs. I wanted to use the 1989 UD Griffey, but there were just too many sales in a PSA 10 and the site wasn't loading properly, lol. I thought this chart was interesting to just to see how drastically those cards have shot up in the last 12 years

I used VCP to get the average sale price for each of the cards in the given year in the grade noted. For the S&P 500 numbers, I just exported the closing price for every day from 2010 through today, and took the closing number on the last day of the year for every year. For 2022, obviously I used yesterday's closing price, from here

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EG...stedClose=true

Did any of these grade level cards go at Heritage yesterday? Curious if they went up or down?

[Yoda]

The fine art market is currently on fire. it appears that high value cards of the usual suspects is now being considered marginal fine art as rich folks reset their asset allocations. A '14 CJ Joe Jax the same as a Picasso? Not quite, of course, but definitely a shift in investor attitudes.