Most Gut-wrenching card you had to sell...

[Vegas-guy]

Mine was not just one but 4! In 2004 I sold all 4 of my T206 Cobbs all in PSA 6.. I really regret selling the 4 but most of all the green back!

[bcbgcbrcb]

Mine would have to be a tie between a 1915 RPPC of Babe Ruth and a Cameo Pepsin Cy Young Pinback.

[Jason Carota]

Mine was a T210-8 of Berger (Mobile.) It has one of the most amazing images I have seen on a card.


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Hopefully I can acquire one in 2012.

[T206Collector]

I had a PSA 6 Pink Portrait Hal Chase. When SGC wouldn't cross it over to an 80 because of a hairline corner wrinkle, I dumped it. That card was spectacular. And so rare. Never should've sold it.

[rainier2004]

The toughest was when I was 16 and sold one my mantles - It was a 1960, sold in 1991, later graded out as a psa 7. "What I regret" most with cards is allowing some people I called friends in high school to hang out at our house while my father was gone and someone stole 9-10 of his best cards...never saw the cards again. I'd be willing to do an awful lot to erase that moment in time.

[bijoem]

I probably have a little bit of regret each time I sell anything.

but for sure this one is tops.
this is the card I miss most.

[cdn_collector]

Compared to Phil's Ruth & Young, this is smaller than small potatoes.

Over the years, I have turned my collection over many times, and sold hundreds of cards. There is a small handful of cards I'd have loved to have kept, but parted with for financial reasons. Many of them went to great people/collectors, which, oddly, makes me happy to have parted with them at that time.

But then there are some cards that, regardless of where they went, I really really wish I still had.

Five or so years ago, in what I now consider a moment of insanity, I sold nearly every card in my George Gibson collection. I kept two cards out of about 60 in case I ever returned to collecting George Gibson cards. There were a few that I immediately regretted parting with.

As we enter 2012, I am on the verge of resuscitating that collection. Now more than ever I regret not having kept just a few more of those Gibson cards. In some cases, I think I'll just have to ante-up to make up for my mistake, but in others, I think it could be a really long time -- if ever -- before I see some of these cards come available. The ones that immediately come to mind:

e92 Croft's Cocoa
e104-II blank & nadja backs
e105
T205 Piedmont 42


Regards,

Richard.