"The Most I've Ever Spent on a Card" - A story in 12 parts. What's your story?

[Bliggity]

Originally Posted by Balticfox

While I like to keep my treasures on display, typically I don't show off my collections to house guests. First of all I'm reluctant to advertise the treasure trove in my house. Moreover unless a house guest also has the collecting gene, the conversations would tend to go something like this:

GUEST - So how much is all of this stuff worth?

I definitely get nervous also, but I'm pretty selective about who gets to see it. Usually just close friends. And you're right about the conversation quickly turning to, "how much do you pay for these?" But not always. I had a buddy over on NYE who could not care less about sports. I don't think he's thrown a ball in his life or watched a minute of sports on TV. But he was amazed by all the color lithograph cards; he remarked that they were little works of art and studied them for a while. He also saw a couple 1972 Topps cards and thought they were pretty "groovy," lol.

Lots of great cards and stories getting posted here. John, I love the '38 DiMaggio, it's high on my want-list.