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What makes a great collector?
Posted By: barry arnold
a great collector of vintage baseball cards (IMHO)... |
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What makes a great collector?
Posted By: RC McKenzie
In 1976 I was in the 3rd grade.. We were supposed to bring in something for show and tell and I brought in a poster board with 1976 topps cards scotch-taped to it. I had a Pete Rose and Tony Perez all-star taped on there. I spoke in front of the class while they dozed off and got a B. After class, 'Todd' came up to me with a concerned look on his face. He said, "You know you just ruined those cards!". I shrugged and told him that they weren't really worth anything anyway other than the stories about baseball. He has a show in town on the radio now called "Ask Dr. Todd". |
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What makes a great collector?
Posted By: jay behrens
You know as little about me as you claim I know about you. Your post just proves that on the surface, your claim a passion for the hobby, but it still comes across as an exercise to drop names and try to make yourself look important and impress others. You are neither. You are a spoiled rich kid desperately seeking the approval of others and belittling those that you feel are beneath you, which is essentially everyone. How did you put it? Everyone on Net54 is a bunch of pedestrian collectors, I believe is your exact words. |
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What makes a great collector?
Posted By: Mark
Hey Sir Brucey, |
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What makes a great collector?
Posted By: bruce Dorskind
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What makes a great collector?
Posted By: Dave
I haven't got involved at all in this thread..but that last statement was one in a million....that fact that you are now throwing around your "Ivy League" school background and 100 hour workweeks in order to obtain high dollar cards is supposed to impress who? Mr. Behrens? I'm gonna assume for the most part your doing nothing more but alienating yourself from even more board members here. By the way...I'll take my state university degree and forty hour work weeks along with time with my family and "bent" cards all day long. |
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What makes a great collector?
Posted By: ErlandStevens
Bruce |
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What makes a great collector?
Posted By: Jason L
broken glass. that's about it. |
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What makes a great collector?
Posted By: PC
"We" sounds like one of those kids who lost all his cards flipping in the school yard many years ago. |
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What makes a great collector?
Posted By: will
Maybe we can get PSA to grade all of us. Give us ID cards, which would allow us only attend specific shows or participate in auctions, based on our grade. |
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What makes a great collector?
Posted By: Jeff Drum
Yawn........................................... |
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What makes a great collector?
Posted By: Rich Klein
Is not money -- although that helps. |
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What makes a great collector?
Posted By: mike
I think the "great collector" can be a person who either by oneself or causes through others to assemble a great collection. A person with tremendous knowledge is an expert to be consulted, but may not be necessarily a collector. |
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What makes a great collector?
Posted By: Frank Wakefield
That was well articulated, Rich. Greatness isn't just money, codition, knowledge, integrity, helpfulness and mentoring, nor vastness of the collection. It can be a bit of all of those things. Kinda like a great baseball player could be a pitcher, or an infielder, or an outfielder... |
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What makes a great collector?
Posted By: Jay
BTW, I just wanted to mention that I think Frank is a great collector. He has a passion for what he collects and an incredible amount of knowledge about the faces and events behind the cards. |
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What makes a great collector?
Posted By: Tom Boblitt
I see here. Probably even our own schizophrenic little lord Fauntleroy. I, like an earlier poster, don't see eye to eye much with Jay, but he's spot on in this argument. Theres tons of people here with more money than I and less money. It ain't about the money.....in the end, you can't take it with you anyway.....we're just the current caregivers of these little pictures of men (that one's for HRBaker....) |
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What makes a great collector?
Posted By: Peter_Spaeth
There are many guys on this board with considerable wealth and outstanding educational credentials. Almost to a man, they comport themselves with dignity and humility, never looking down on others who happen to have less money but treating them as equals. It is too bad there seems to be a notable exception, because I am sure he (they?) has a lot of knowledge and experience to offer, but its value gets lost in the rhetoric and invective. |
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What makes a great collector?
Posted By: Anonymous
Rich - Very well said!! |
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What makes a great collector?
Posted By: JimCrandell
I have not read other answers here but I believe there are 3 aspects to it. |
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What makes a great collector?
Posted By: greg
I quite enjoyed Rich's reply (as well as many of the others). I think he hit the nail on the head quite eloquently. |
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What makes a great collector?
Posted By: E, Daniel
I think a great collector is someone whose sheer will to find and attain the things they would love to own - is greater than the melancholy of being unable to find, or successfully purchase (read outsniped ) those pieces. To keep going, that to me is what makes a truly great collector of anything - even if the material itself is considered banal or crap by others. |
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What makes a great collector?
Posted By: Frank Wakefield
Thank you, Jay, for your kind words; and you're an exemplary collector, yourself. |
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What makes a great collector?
Posted By: Frank Wakefield
Hey Pete, |
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What makes a great collector?
Posted By: Bob
I agree with a post way, way up there, too weary to search: you can have a brilliant collection and be a total ass and you do not qualify as a "great collector" in my book. There are collectors who have stupendous collections who are great collectors and some with dynamite collections who are total jerks and people I wouldn't want to waste one single minute of time with. A hobbyist with a great collection who will treat you without arrogance or elitist snobbery is a great collector. A guy with a beautiful collection of cards but the personality of Mike Tyson on crack is someone who will never be a great collector in my book, no matter what his cards look like. |
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What makes a great collector?
Posted By: Peter Thomas
I think that there needs to be some area or areas of focus. An individual set, a team, a relative, a player, lefties ect. That said I don't see any correlation with the quality of the cards making something that otherwise would not be a collection a collection. A box of PSA 8's and 9's is not a collection. It may contain individual cards that we might covet, but it it not a collection. It is closer to a form of currency than a collection and as such has some vulnerbilities - remember tulip bulbs. That said I do like an 8 or 9 when I can get one and it fits my collection. Generally within a set group I like to have the set at about the same grade level. Although I have many cards I only have 4 complete sets. |
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What makes a great collector?
Posted By: Jay
As a junior in high school I am able to collect decent crease free T206s that I am happy with. To be a great collector you have to be happy with what you have purchased. If you buy cards to try to impress other people then you are in the wrong hobby. |
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What makes a great collector?
Posted By: Frank Wakefield
Young Jay there has the makings of a great collector. Stay the course, keep picking up a card or two, when you start chasing girls don't completely abandon your cards, don't let Mom pitch them when you go to college.... If you're about 13 years of age, if you have 20 T206s now, if you pick up another 25 each year here on out, it will take you another 20 years to make it to 520 in T206, a real nice place to be. You'd be 33. And you'll be 33 then if you don't collect another card ever. I suspect most everyone here would have liked to have had 520 T206s at age 33. I'm sitting here thinking I wish I'd drank half as much beer, and spent half of the savings on cards... |
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What makes a great collector?
Posted By: Shanon
I am quickly learning about the wide variety of collectors and personalities on this board. I think anyone who takes HEART in thier cards and is an honest person to deal with is what makes a great collector. I am as proud of my T-206 PSA 1 Cobb and my PSA 3 Red Heart Musial as some people are of their PSA 8's and 9's. A couple of weeks ago my daughters 5th grade class did a school project on New York City. One of the projects was about baseball in the big apple, so I took in some of my Mantle and Brooklyn Dodger cards. Those kids loved them and so did a few Dads that had never seen an authentic 58' Mantle or 33' Gehrig before. That day was the reason I love to collect, and also made me realize how much I miss dealing and talking to real people at shows vs. winning auctions on ebay. So be proud of what you have, be respectful of others collections and put some heart into what you are buying, selling, and trading. |
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What makes a great collector?
Posted By: Rob NYC
I always thought it was originality and creativeness that was so unique it would attract public attention should it be known that such a collection exists. Do museums count as 'great collectors'? |
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What makes a great collector?
Posted By: peter chao
Rob, Jay and the Guys |
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What makes a great collector?
Posted By: leon
From our resident high school junior, Jay, right above: |
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What makes a great collector?
Posted By: barry arnold
Peter, |
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What makes a great collector?
Posted By: Cobby33
Humility and respect for others. |
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