Would you trade your ENTIRE collection for 1 card?

[quinnsryche]

Another weird question from me If you had the opportunity to trade your entire card collection for that 1 special card, would you do it? Now I don't mean your stockpile of 1987 Topps Bobby Thigpen rookies for a T206 Wagner! What I am getting at is a fair value trade, if your collection books at 10K or 50K or a million dollars and the other card also is valued as such, would you do it? Now the pretext is the single card is your "holy grail" and for argument sake, this would be the only chance for you to EVER own said card. Would anyone or everyone be comfortable owning 1 single, special card as their "collection" or is it the whole that does it for you? If you answer yes you would, what would that card be? My only hope for this post is to see what the different mindsets there are out there.
Thanks!

[Robextend]

That is a good question, I would say no. I'd rather have hundreds of quality cards over just one.

[T206Collector]

I had 521 of the T206 set and sold about 400 of them to make a run at Lionel Carter's Eddie Plank in the April 2007 Mastro Auction. Fortunately, I did not have to part with my Mathewson or my Cobb cards (full disclosure), but I did essentially liquidate my T206 set in order to get 1 T206 card. I have never regretted this decision, although I do occasionally miss 1 or 2 of my former cards....

From SGC Graded Cards

.....and now I am slowly putting together a raw PR-VG set and am about half way there. So, I am getting them back, to some degree.

[FUBAR]

Definite No from me, i collect what makes me happy and personally would rather have 100 cards valued at $500 then 1 card at 50k.

[Matt]

Not a chance - even at greater value. You can only look at a single card for so long.

[JamesGallo]

It's funny I never thought I would consider this, but after talking with someone over the weekend that maintains a small 25 card collection and not more then that it is something I am considering. His reasoning was if something ever happened to him it would be a lot easier for his wife to deal with 25 expensive cards over 500 or more cheaper cards. This really got me thinking about my set collecting and I will probably narrow down the set collecting.

So at this point I would say yes I would do it, and depending on the card I might have always done it.

James G

[tbob]

Absolutely not. Not even for the best T206 Wagner on the planet.

[Wesley]

I would do it in a heartbeat. If for one of my dream cards (T206 Wagner, E107 Wagner or T210 Jackson) I would be happy to trade an entire collection worth similar value.

[Leon]

As a person who likes variety there is just no way I could do it in a collecting vein. If it were purely monetary, maybe.

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by Leon

As a person who likes variety there is just no way I could do it in a collecting vein. If it were purely monetary, maybe.

I agree w/Brother Leon. For the right $$ sure, straight-up no way. I would trade my entire baseball card collection for a presentable, complete T206 Wagner. I'd even help carry the binders out to your car.

[botn]

Ok. I'll play...

I would trade what ever it took from my collection for an E135 Jackson and/or an E107 Wagner.

[JasonL]

Umm,....no

[SteveMitchell]

Tony...

Interesting question but, for me, an easy answer: definitely No. There isn't a single card I desire that would get my relatively poor collection - unless it could be swapped. In which case, I'll take the finest T206 Honus Wagner and really have some fun!

Also, I believe you mentioned in a post sometime ago that you are Pat's son. If so, please pass along my best regards. We go back (through mail contacts mainly) about 40 years and I remember picking up lots of small original Conlon photos from him (for literally a song) not too many years ago at an early 1980's midwest show.

Steve
Just a Double-A ballplayer pretending to be a Big Leaguer

[Cat]

No, but there isn't a card out there that I want more than my favorite single card in my collection. A few years ago, I may have said yes. If I could take my favorite handful of cards off the table and trade everything else for a special card, then yeah I would do it.

[calvindog]

And then will you retire already, damnit?

[Cat]

Originally Posted by calvindog

And then will you retire already, damnit?

Well, then I would have to replace all those cards I just traded off.

[brickyardkennedy]

Nope. Derive great enjoyment from the variety of my cards. How long would the pleasure of admiring just one card, no matter how rare and desirable, last? Speaking, of course, only for myself, the thrill would fade, sooner or later. Also, I'd just start over, obtaining the cards I traded away, and who would want to go through that again?

[Jacklitsch]

No.

[danmckee]

Answer: NO

But if I had to think about it, the 1914 Baltimore News Schedule card of Babe Ruth which we owned 2 of the blue ones, would be a thought.

My entire collection? NFW

[Fripples]

Considering I only have 7 cards in my collection -- as I am new to this *cough* -- I will say, YES!!!

Interesting that most responses were in the NO department. That means one of two things. Either everyone on here really loves their personal collections OR no one wants to have a card worth $1 million dollars. Fascinating.

[joeadcock]

At this point NO. Dont know if my mind might change. As I slowly build up my collection there are some real nice E107's I wouldn't mind instead of my handful of commons. Or perhaps a high grade Old Judge Cabinet

Excellent question.

[joeadcock]

By the way, like what T206 Collector did. He is slowly building up again, which is another way of doing it.