How Important Is Provenance To You?

[Leon]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

Joann nailed it and I think the original post was not about which famous collector may or may not have been the previous owner of a card. The more important provenance concerns original owner collections that are fresh to the market, and therefore are most likely not tampered with. Every collector should be willing to pay a premium for collections like those.

I only pay premiums for penultimate cards!!!

On a more serious note it was really fun and interesting to go through the collection of Trucker Boy's grandad's 750+ cards that were collected in the 1910's. Basically, since they were inherited from his grandad, I was getting them from the person who collected them out of the packs and original venues. Going over them with Mark M., as I opened each package, I was being told what to look for. There were different groups of cards collected together and these fit that mark perfectly.