Member’s most precious card

[harperj497]

Hello everyone,
Been on here for a while but haven’t got time to get any post up yet. I finally have time now!

I’d love to see one card you all would never sell. I hope this post gets approved. I’d love to see the cards.


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[VintageBen]

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[harperj497]

Originally Posted by VintageBen

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Beautiful card !
Why’s it so precious to you ?


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[oldjudge]

Probably posted in the wrong place, unless this has become the Buy/No Sell/No Trade section. This should be in the main section.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by oldjudge

Probably posted in the wrong place, unless this has become the Buy/No Sell/No Trade section. This should be in the main section.

Correct. And that's a nice card!
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[harperj497]

Originally Posted by oldjudge

Probably posted in the wrong place, unless this has become the Buy/No Sell/No Trade section. This should be in the main section.

Oh thanks man. I’ll have it reposted on the main section.


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[jingram058]

I think this is my first card prior to 1960s Topps. I got it because he was Dr. Steve Hardy on "General Hospital" for years. This one really means a lot to me.

[harperj497]

Love the way y’all are sharing stories of these cards. They’re all great stories.

So i got one more question, would you give up your “most precious” cards for $5m if you got the offer. Sorry to drop this bomb on y’all lol. I’d love to hear your answers.


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[paul]

Easy choice for me. I'm a Hall of Fame collector, and this is Frank Selee's only known copy of his only known card.

[harperj497]

Originally Posted by paul

Easy choice for me. I'm a Hall of Fame collector, and this is Frank Selee's only known copy of his only known card.

So would you be giving it up for that offer ?


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[G1911]

Originally Posted by harperj497

Love the way y’all are sharing stories of these cards. They’re all great stories.

So i got one more question, would you give up your “most precious” cards for $5m if you got the offer. Sorry to drop this bomb on y’all lol. I’d love to hear your answers.


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Sure. A precious card I’d never sell is, of course, caveated by the bounds of plausible reality. I wouldn’t sell my favorites for 10-20x their worth, but if you’re going to give me a mansion with a helicopter pad for it, I’ll put it in the mail immediately. I get more joy out of cardboard than I will any money I could reasonably get for them, but in exchange for being able to retire? I’m doing it in an instant.

[raulus]

Originally Posted by harperj497

Love the way y’all are sharing stories of these cards. They’re all great stories.

So i got one more question, would you give up your “most precious” cards for $5m if you got the offer. Sorry to drop this bomb on y’all lol. I’d love to hear your answers.


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I’d definitely consider it. My wife would take it in a heartbeat.

I’d probably want you to make it $10M, so that I could net $5M after taxes.

[raulus]

Originally Posted by raulus

I’d definitely consider it. My wife would take it in a heartbeat.

I’d probably want you to make it $10M, so that I could net $5M after taxes.

At the same time, it’s an uncomfortable feeling recognizing that there’s a price at which I would sell. And it sort of brings your whole collection into play at that point, even if the price is ludicrous.

It reminds me of the joke from the economist’s joke book:

An economist walks up to a woman and asks, “Would you sleep with me for $1M?”

To which she replies: “Why, I suppose I would.”

To which he responds, “How about for $100?”

She then objects, “What kind of a woman do you think I am??!!!”

And then he retorts, “Madam, we have already established that. Now we are merely negotiating on the price!”

[brianp-beme]

This one was part of a group of 5 I purchased for lawn mowing money many a moon ago. It means the world to me and would be the last vintage card I would sell, but I would jump on a 5 million dollar offer. I think unless you have a seven digit value card, and a real strong attachment to it and no need to realize a windfall from it, I believe all of us would for this amount of stupid money.

Brian

[harperj497]

Originally Posted by brianp-beme

This one was part of a group of 5 I purchased for lawn mowing money many a moon ago. It means the world to me and would be the last vintage card I would sell, but I would jump on a 5 million dollar offer. I think unless you have a seven digit value card, and a real strong attachment to it and no need to realize a windfall from it, I believe all of us would for this amount of stupid money.

Brian

This is fact actually. I think everyone would jump on the offer. I think you are just in dilemma because the probability of getting that kind of deal is slim but then if it were to be happening really, i think y’all would be giving the cards up.


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[mrreality68]

Originally Posted by harperj497

Love the way y’all are sharing stories of these cards. They’re all great stories.

So i got one more question, would you give up your “most precious” cards for $5m if you got the offer. Sorry to drop this bomb on y’all lol. I’d love to hear your answers.


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Most people would probably sell. Because most of our cards are not near that value so we sell it and then buy another one, a better graded one, or an even more special card that is on our bucket list or dream list that we never could have had before.
Or at least that is what I would do

[JollyElm]

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[harperj497]

Originally Posted by mrreality68

Most people would probably sell. Because most of our cards are not near that value so we sell it and then buy another one, a better graded one, or an even more special card that is on our bucket list or dream list that we never could have had before.
Or at least that is what I would do

Exactly!


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[Tere1071]

From my childhood, it would be the only card that I have left: my 1970 Topps Super Roberto Clemente.

From my rebirth as a collector (2012- ), it would be a binder of cards that my wife purchased for me at an estate sale. The cards are worthless in terms of monetary value, but the fact that she purchased them for me is very significant. She puts up with my addiction er, I mean hobby and admittedly I spend too many hours in front of the computer looking at baseball cards which my wife has commented on more than once, dozens of times perhaps. With that being said I know that she purchased those cards for me out of love.

I will never part with the Clemente nor that binder of cards.

Phil aka Tere1071

Complete 1953 Bowman Color, 1971, 1972, 1974, and 1975 Topps Baseball sets - under revision.

A near-complete 1973 Topps Baseball set (647/660) under construction.

1970 Topps Baseball Card partial set (596/720) under construction.

[darwinbulldog]

I'd happily sell my entire collection for $5 million, but if I could keep just one card, this is the one for me.

[LEHR]

Originally Posted by harperj497

Love the way y’all are sharing stories of these cards. They’re all great stories.

So i got one more question, would you give up your “most precious” cards for $5m if you got the offer. Sorry to drop this bomb on y’all lol. I’d love to hear your answers.


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Ha! I've been collecting for 40 years and for $5MM I'd give you the entire collection and the new house it's housed in.
Everything has a price aside from my family and animals.

[raulus]

Originally Posted by LEHR

Ha! I've been collecting for 40 years and for $5MM I'd give you the entire collection and the new house it's housed in.
Everything has a price aside from my family and animals.

I think my wife would draw the line at the house.

[ValKehl]

Originally Posted by harperj497

Hello everyone,
Been on here for a while but haven’t got time to get any post up yet. I finally have time now!

I’d love to see one card you all would never sell. I hope this post gets approved. I’d love to see the cards.


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How about showing us YOUR most precious card??

[Vintagedeputy]

Hard to pick just one, but I'd have to say this one.

[G1911]

My favorites are generally the ones I have an illogical fond memory of collecting when I first started with my father. My T205 Livingston that was my first T card, my T205 Knight (Portrait) that was my first T206, my T3 Admiral Schlei that was my first cabinet, the E94 Lake and Devlin and E98 Vaughn (Red) that I found in Cooperstown, New York for $20 each and my dad bought me. Because of the small budget when I was a kid, none of these cards have much interest or note to anyone else.

This is probably my most precious card item now, not a single card but it was a single sheet. I have 20 of the 25 fragments, 2 of which apparently do not exist anymore 112 years later. The Donovan has only 4 non-proof copies known and was unproven to exist until 2006. I would also sell it for $5,000,000, but have turned down what I would to be consider significant offers for it, since even threads specifically about not-money become about money

[todeen]

It would be sentimental cards. The Jackie was pulled when my dad took me to the 2001 Fanfest in Seattle for the All Star game. We didn't attend the game. We were there two days. I got a cool card, wrapper redemption Ichiro, met some amazing HOF players and got autos and pics. It was heaven on earth with my dad.

The 1961 Koufax and Snider were cards I asked my mom to buy me on two random occasions when someone was selling cards in a weird unexpected spot. I asked not expecting her to say yes, but she did! I didn't know until a few years later that she was a Dodgers fan. That was about 1995, and she was rooting hard for the Mariners cuz I was. I had just assumed she was a Mariners fan.

And would I sell for $5 mil? Yes. Mama didn't raise no fool.

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[ullmandds]

i would gladly sell anyone my most precious card...let alone my whole precious collection for 5 mil.

Anyone?

[harperj497]

Originally Posted by todeen

It would be sentimental cards. The Jackie was pulled when my dad took me to the 2001 Fanfest in Seattle for the All Star game. We didn't attend the game. We were there two days. I got a cool card, wrapper redemption Ichiro, met some amazing HOF players and got autos and pics. It was heaven on earth with my dad.

The 1961 Koufax and Snider were cards I asked my mom to buy me on two random occasions when someone was selling cards in a weird unexpected spot. I asked not expecting her to say yes, but she did! I didn't know until a few years later that she was a Dodgers fan. That was about 1995, and she was rooting hard for the Mariners cuz I was. I had just assumed she was a Mariners fan.

And would I sell for $5 mil? Yes. Mama didn't raise no fool.

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The last line got me cracked up
Beautiful cards by the way.


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[Casey2296]

Easy for me, this is the only card that my Dad and I ever bought together.

And yes, offer me $500K and I would sell it in a minute, or my Dad would kick my ass for being a dummy.

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[campyfan39]

May 11, 1986. My Dad was coaching my team and we had a game that night. Before the game he and Mom told me to come into their room that they had a special gift for my 13th bday. It was this 56' Mick. Dad bought it from a Kit Young catalogue for $35 (which was more than was normally spent on birthdays and more than Dad had ever spent on a card for himself at that point).

Dad passed almost 19 years ago at just 54 years old. I think about that day every time I see this card.

[harperj497]

Originally Posted by campyfan39

May 11, 1986. My Dad was coaching my team and we had a game that night. Before the game he and Mom told me to come into their room that they had a special gift for my 13th bday. It was this 56' Mick. Dad bought it from a Kit Young catalogue for $35 (which was more than was normally spent on birthdays and more than Dad had ever spent on a card for himself at that point).

Dad passed almost 19 years ago at just 54 years old. I think about that day every time I see this card.

Felt so emotional reading this. He must’ve been a great dad.


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[jchcollins]

Originally Posted by campyfan39

May 11, 1986. My Dad was coaching my team and we had a game that night. Before the game he and Mom told me to come into their room that they had a special gift for my 13th bday. It was this 56' Mick. Dad bought it from a Kit Young catalogue for $35 (which was more than was normally spent on birthdays and more than Dad had ever spent on a card for himself at that point).

Great story. Mine is the '56 Mick too. I traded for an offgrade one as a kid when I was 13 or 14, and what I had to give up at the time almost totally cleaned out my vintage collection. A couple of years ago I upgraded to a nicer copy of the card, (and yes I got rid of my original offgrade one - I can understand why many people wouldn't, but doing so allowed me to pickup another grail card...) However - I never would have gotten rid of my original without securing an upgrade. There is just something magical about Mantle and the design of the '56 Topps cards. Pure nostalgia. My favorite card of all-time.

[Exhibitman]

This:



This is the first 'old' card I ever got and it is the earliest acquisition left in my collection. I'd guess I was under ten and got it in a NYC antique shop. I'd never seen colors or designs like that because no cards in the mid-1970s were made using Flexichrome and that was my frame of reference. And it was bigger than my usual cards. I studied it for what must have been hours and I was hooked on vintage cards.

Now, would I sell it for life-altering money? Sure. Sadly, but certainly, and for enough money I'd even hand-deliver it. Ditto for my whole collection. In the final analysis, it's all just stuff, not friends or family. To paraphrase a song I like "Truth is I thought it mattered. I thought that cards mattered. But does it? Bollocks. Not compared to how people matter."

[brunswickreeves]

In the summer of '93 my Father took our family to Boston for a weekend trip, the highlight of which was a Sox vs. Mariners game (1st ever pro ball game, and Fenway!). He was working for Standard Coffee, 3 hrs from home in Braintree to make ends meet, and was a chance for us all to reconnect as a fam. My siblings and I each got $50 to spend over the weekend and at the game (I never had that much money in my young life). I saved it all and bought Griffery's '89 Upper Deck rookie at Ben Franklin's in Gorham, ME (what a card shop that was!). Still worth about $50 today, but priceless because of the association to that weekend and my Father & Mother.

[John1941]

Cornhusker, that's an awesome story!