The hobby’s most iconic card under $15k?

[BioCRN]

15K budget...hear me out.

Imagine being the sole collector waking up every morning to 30,000+ 1988 Fleer Sammy Stewart cards greeting you everyday. Just something to consider.

[brianp-beme]

I believe the most iconic vintage card, and the one with the most potential future upside, that can be found for under 15k (15 koruna, which is Czech currency, and thus roughly equivalent to 68 cents), is the below example Irvin Wilhelm T205 Piedmont, as it still has the chance of someday, as the result of advances in baseball card paper loss identification technology, of being proven to be the rare "suffe ed" variation.

Brian

[ValKehl]

Originally Posted by brianp-beme

I believe the most iconic vintage card, and the one with the most potential future upside, that can be found for under 15k (15 koruna, which is Czech currency, and thus roughly equivalent to 68 cents), is the below example Irvin Wilhelm T205 Piedmont, as it still has the chance of someday, as the result of advances in baseball card paper loss identification technology, of being proven to be the rare "suffe ed" variation.

Brian

Brian, I don't know what you are doing/have done for a career, but if it isn't comedy, you have missed your calling!

[Belfast1933]

Originally Posted by BioCRN

15K budget...hear me out.

Imagine being the sole collector waking up every morning to 30,000+ 1988 Fleer Sammy Stewart cards greeting you everyday. Just something to consider.

Can't you just see Sammy rolling up in his Trans Am in the high school parking lots?

[JollyElm]

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[Republicaninmass]

Interesting people still allowing multiples of the same card in low mid grade in the same auction.

Imo nothing as iconic as the 52 mantle. Better cards of better players, sure. But topps is still around and for all intents and purposes, this was their first issue. Like the first Corvette, not the best, but the first

Save up, wait for the crash...buy the mantle with cash.



It might not be a 90% but look for the right card when people need to sell. Not like you need a mantle today...thankfully. grossly overpriced IMO. More than enough to go around, people are just flipping week to week, auction to auction passing to the greater fool, or someone who both sold and bought the inflated pricing. I love it and glad I cashed in. My psa a, auto 6 signed 52 mantle did over 100k . No regrets on that on3

[MVSNYC]

Zach Wheat- thanks!

[Exhibitman]

1949 Bowman Robinson, Doby and Paige. Score the first three great NL stars into the majors. Maybe get a Campy if you have a few bucks left. FWIW, I think the recognition of these early NL pioneer MLB players is only going to go up as time passes. The 1952 T Robinson also is a great choice. It is one of his nicest cards.

[cammb]

1933 Delong. gehrig