OT - If You Didn't Collect Sports Memorabilia...

[metsbats]

Re: OT - If You Didn't Collect Sports Memorabilia...

I used to play in a band and had at one point accumulated 6 electric guitars. Now I'm down to 3 so if I was not collecting sports memorabilia I'd probably be knee deep in electric guitars instead.

[coxfan]

Re: OT - If You Didn't Collect Sports Memorabilia...

That historic gavel is great! Rare ( very old) books in some fields have escalated in value. Forgery in rare books is rare or non-existent, and there are some good old baseball books though prices are now at the high end for 19th century ones.

Unfortunately forgeries and fakes occur in almost every other collecting field. I once looked at a "dinosaur" fragment at a museum show. When I asked the seller for more detail, he called over an archaeology grad student nearby at another booth for more info. He immediately pronounced the fragment as a "turtle shell", to the seller's embarassment. The seller said he was going back to the person who sold it to him with this new opinion. Later, I saw some "dinosaur" fossil pieces at a store. From the clerk's demeanor, it was bvious they were falsely presented.