Growing up as a baseball fan, you really didn't need to watch the games to know about Bonds record breaking year. Yet after that year everyone wanted a Bonds card. As the years go past the once coveted collection begins to collect dust, and eventually moves on to the attic. Well not everyone stops collecting. Some people's collections just get more expensive and filled with rare baseball memorabilia.
For example, recently the "Holy Grail" of all baseball cards, a Honus Wagner card in almost mint condition, sold for a whopping $1.23 million dollars at an auction. The predicted price that the card would go for was only $300,000 dollars, and amazingly it went for more than four times that.
The grade of this coveted card is VG (very good), according to Sports Collectors Daily article posted on April 20, 2012. This auction had a good deal of attention drawn to it, and many new sports memorabilia hot shots, accompanied by old veteran buyers, came to bid on the rare card.
Baseball memorabilia is coming to be recognized in the same catagory as art. No more than five or six dozen of these cards have battled time to be graced among us; unfourtunately time has not been gracious to the majority of them and most are beaters, or cards in very poor condition. Bill Shelton who assisted Goodwin and Co. with the auction recognized this fact and also commented about the great investment measure old cards are. Old and rare cards are becoming more coveted by collectors, who in there turn sell them to other collectors after savouring them for so long; which by that time the price has increased.
For example the last same quality Honus Wagner card that sold at auction went for only $925,00 in 2009. In three years the price raised to $1.26 million, a sure sign that baseball memorabilia is ever increasing in popularity and value, making it a great investment. With that in mind you will also have the coolest baseball card collection on the block. Never mind Bonds, Wagner is worth millions.
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