Best Investment Value Today

[Swoboda4]

After reading todays AOL newsclip of a dallas art collector Charles Martignette's estate who put up his collection of various artworks for auction which include "magazine cover art" I immediately thought of the ongoing Topps auction on e-bay in which they sell original negatives and final photos of their printed cards throughout the years. Heritage Auction which is conducting Martignette's auction is expected to realize 20 million dollars. Included is such works by Rockwell representing Saturday Evening Post covers. Well,not far removed from such Americana is again the Topps liquidation of their negatives and final shots of their printed baseball and football cards on e-bay. Also included are photo negatives (the originals)of shots not used for that years cards which are even more interesting for it shows more posed positions of our favorite cards.
I feel ,even though not game used (but baseball related)this is the most under-rated investment out there. Some auctions end at $9.00! and even in the case of well known cards their final price doesn't exceed anything over $300 (The price of a common jersey-but in my opinion much more valuable.)


Topps #390 1963 Hank Aaron and above it the current e-bay auction of the exact negative used to produce it currently at $67 with 5 days to go

[Swoboda4]

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[CampWest]

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Good call... I'm going to grab the 1990 Chico Lind proof set... I should be cashing in big time once it appreciates.

[Swoboda4]

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Keep laughing tough guy. I'll make more later with this negative of 1970 Topps Hodges than I would with a $250 Burnitz jersey. (I know,well then go to another site. Like I always say,you can't just put game used stuff on the wall-you got to mix it up.)-Robert

[CampWest]

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I'm just joking around here. I do like these and I do think some *can* be a good investment. Personally, I would consider buying those for some cards/players... But most of those that are $20, I do not see ever having the demand for those common players that would make them appreciate any more than the card has over the past 20 years.

[MarinersFan34]

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Now that's a good photo match!

[Swoboda4]

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Photo match ,indeed. I got 75 % game used stuff on my wall and the other,interesting baseball items of which I include this topic. I also inform you guys when I see it. It just helps the overall look of the Man Cave. You know. Anybody remember this offering/display?:

I have a display of 25 of these and every major city had them from 1967-1968:

[cordovacollector]

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I certainly DO remember the Coke caps! In our two-county area in southern Minnesota only me and one other boy were able to put together the full set on the white collector sheet with red printing.

We had to bring them into the local Coke bottler (Fairmont, MN) by a certain date. Many sets were turned in and there were just the two of us that had them all so they had a drawing and announced it on the local radio station. Big time stuff back then.

It ended up that they drew the boy's name, so I got second place. I can't remember what the first place was but I was given a top-of-the-line Johnson spincast rod and reel. I loved fishing so I was thrilled with the prize! I also got several wooden cases of Coke and 7-UP.

The only thing I remember being disappointed about was I wanted my set of Coke caps back but they said they had to send them in to verify that we won. Drat!

We were a town of 1000 people and every kid in town was trying to complete the set so we had to get creative. My neighbor boy and I had the best idea of a stick with gum on the end of it so we could retreive caps from pop machines if we couldn't get the owner to open it. Poor owners were having to open the machines all day long! We even got some that had fallen down into the street gutter grates. That took a stiff measuring tape with gum on the end to get them.

More than once we got kicked out of the local pool hall. We'd go in and stand by the door to see if the bartender would give us the caps. But if the owner saw us, he'd send us running out of there.

I remember finding the last cap I needed in the little town of Frost, MN, where all my relatives were from. Population 185. I got the cap in Timmy's Cafe. Frost is only 8 miles from where I live now.

I've often thought of trying to rebuild the set. Hopefully this will be inspiration to finally do it! I imagine the hardest part would be to come up with an original collector's sheet.

I think they did football caps later that year or the next. I tried for that set too but we were all kinda tired of it by then and so were the pop machine owners.

[cordovacollector]

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By the way, we had to get all the caps from all the teams ... not just the Twins players. Seems to me there were 125-150 different caps.

[Swoboda4]

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Cordovacollector,the sheets and the caps, like everything else,is available on e-bay. It does bring you back. Just like the Chicago song says.