Showing your collections/room off to others

[z28jd]

I once showed my cousins some T206 cards and Old Judge cards during a family dinner about 15 years ago and one of them said "Do you have any Babe Ruth cards?". I do not, which led to everyone looking disappointed and not caring anymore about the old cards.

My cousin married a former baseball player and before the next family dinner I bought all six of his cards. Total spent was about $50 because I had to buy team sets for all of them. Those cards was significantly more popular than any pre-war card I owned at the time.

No one has asked to see any cards since.

My neighbor from about ten years ago knew Rey Palacios when he was young. He went to the fire station my neighbor worked at a lot. A 1989 card of Palacios was more popular than anything else I had to him.

Basically, unless people collect old cards or just love old baseball history, they don't care.

[jayshum]

Originally Posted by z28jd

I once showed my cousins some T206 cards and Old Judge cards during a family dinner about 15 years ago and one of them said "Do you have any Babe Ruth cards?". I do not, which led to everyone looking disappointed and not caring anymore about the old cards.

My cousin married a former baseball player and before the next family dinner I bought all six of his cards. Total spent was about $50 because I had to buy team sets for all of them. Those cards was significantly more popular than any pre-war card I owned at the time.

No one has asked to see any cards since.

My neighbor from about ten years ago knew Rey Palacios when he was young. He went to the fire station my neighbor worked at a lot. A 1989 card of Palacios was more popular than anything else I had to him.

Basically, unless people collect old cards or just love old baseball history, they don't care.

Is that really any different from any other type of collection people have? If you have no knowledge or interest in something, how much time would you really want to spend looking at it or hearing someone else talk about it? There was a thread about what else people collect, and while many of the pictures shown were impressive collections, there weren't too many that personally would have interested me enough to want to spend a lot of time hearing about them.

[cubman1941]

Belfast1933 " must be an outlier here as I display my collection broadly and bring friends and guests in all the time (insured, camera, smart locks on the house)

It’s a personal thing but I love telling the backstories to King Kelly, how cards were used to sell cigarettes, why the high number 52 Topps are crazy expensive, etc.

I find the biggest kick people get is when I show them the “Gross” section of my PC (my last name, and an easy to use pun at the same time). That has my son and daughter’s little league photos and batting helmets, my nieces and nephews with their cards and the 6 major league players with last name “Gross” who have Topps cards - all on one “Gross shelf” (last photo below)

As many have said here, the whole thing is just fun for me especially to be able to share it.

You do you, as the kids say… and for me, this is to fun to keep locked away."

Wow, very nicely organized. Is that an original 1951 Mantle? I am a Cub guy and my room is chock full of mainly Cubs/Bears stuff and, while organized and everything on an Excel file so I can find it, not as neatly as yours's.

[ALBB]

Originally Posted by jayshum

Is that really any different from any other type of collection people have? If you have no knowledge or interest in something, how much time would you really want to spend looking at it or hearing someone else talk about it? There was a thread about what else people collect, and while many of the pictures shown were impressive collections, there weren't too many that personally would have interested me enough to want to spend a lot of time hearing about them.

I once had to " pretend " intertest in a relative's stamp collection ( eeh)

and when I commented about " do you that the upside-down Jenny plane stamp "...had to politely listen to a 10 minute story !

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by ALBB

I once had to " pretend " intertest in a relative's stamp collection ( eeh)

and when I commented about " do you that the upside-down Jenny plane stamp "...had to politely listen to a 10 minute story !

LOL, we have all been there and we are that person every time we talk about our collection of pictures of young athletic men in uniforms or their personal items/old worn clothes we now own.