On card autos on modern rookies?

[packs]

Sticker autos aren't really that prevalent in baseball. I know Pro Debut is a product that uses stickers but the majority of products for baseball are on card. Bowman and Topps flagship products often have retail only versions of hobby autos that are also sometimes on stickers. But from my experience the vast majority of baseball product autos are on card.

This is different for other sports. Soccer, for example, is almost sticker exclusive.

[bk400]

Ah yes, thanks. I also collect some soccer cards (focus on rookies and on card autos of defenders) and made a poor assumption that those dynamics also applied to baseball.

Do you think autos are a sensible way to invest in lower pop versions of 1990-2010 era cards? For me, it seems that an auto gives the card a bit more of an authentic scarcity than, say, the "artificial" scarcity created more recently with all the 1/5 or 1/10 parallels etc that characterize the super modern hobby.

[Peter_Spaeth]

I'm not sure any modern card is a great investment but probably better than the common as dirt base cards.
Here are a couple I own.

[bk400]

Peter, those are pretty cool autos of some serious players...

Here are a couple of my on-card autos, noting that they aren't all modern and aren't all baseball.

I show my kids the Dwight Gooden one so I have good collateral for a Say No To Drugs message.

[Gary Dunaier]

Originally Posted by bk400

Here are a couple of my on-card autos, noting that they aren't all modern and aren't all baseball.

Nice, but I think the OP was asking about cards that were issued with autographs, as opposed to unsigned cards that were autographed after the fact.

[bk400]

Thanks -- I happened to be the original poster. I was actually more interested in whether looking for autographs on originally unsigned cards (particularly on cards that historically have a very high population) would be a profitable pursuit. I may have used the wrong terminology in the original post; I thought that an "on-card" auto is definitionally a hand signed autograph that happens after the original, unsigned card, is issued.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by bk400

Thanks -- I happened to be the original poster. I was actually more interested in whether looking for autographs on originally unsigned cards (particularly on cards that historically have a very high population) would be a profitable pursuit. I may have used the wrong terminology in the original post; I thought that an "on-card" auto is definitionally a hand signed autograph that happens after the original, unsigned card, is issued.

To me on card is used to differentiate between two types of pack issued cards, those with autos on the card and those with an auto'd sticker added.

[sbfinley]

Originally Posted by bk400

Thanks -- I happened to be the original poster. I was actually more interested in whether looking for autographs on originally unsigned cards (particularly on cards that historically have a very high population) would be a profitable pursuit. I may have used the wrong terminology in the original post; I thought that an "on-card" auto is definitionally a hand signed autograph that happens after the original, unsigned card, is issued.

Signed card collector here. Yes is there is great value in Modern signed cards, especially rookie cards. I highly recommend getting a membership at sports collectors.net if anything for the private/public signing listings.