Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson View Post
We all had shoeboxes filled with cards that got lost. LOL

But take some comfort in this: the collecting of coins, stamps, cards, figurines, comic books are all DYING businesses. Kids today don't care about them. Values are declining as we grow old and die.

My case in point.

Back in the 1970s I desperately wanted a set of Zeppelin air mail stamps, the first air mail stamps from the 1930s. A mint set went for $25,000. Today it's $3,500.

Edited to add: oops price is lower than I thought. Under $2,000 now.

https://www.kenmorestamp.com/the-ame...-set-of-3-save
Has all of that stuff been "collected" in the past, though? Or was this a somewhat general thing? Seems like the reason why some of this stuff is valuable now (or was recently) is because it's stuff that people had when they were kids....and now (or then) when the kids grew up and got money, they were interested in getting those things back, since they have money and whatnot. Hopefully PokeMon cards make a resurgence because I have a hefty amount of them...although I don't have any rare ones, maybe a holographic Charizard and a red-cheeks Pikachu, but doubt those would be seen as "rare" if they ever take off. Who knows though.