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Where can I find one of these heirs willing to sell me a stack of inherited Musial/Mays/Mantle cards for the cost of a PS4??

Hard to compare Graded Thurman Thomas cards to Musial/Mays/Mantle cards.  What's the difference?

'50s/'60s bubblegum cards were collected by kids with no real value attached to them by society except sentimental value.  Cards were trashed and thrown away because the "investment" value had not yet been discovered, which also contributed to the decreased supply.  No only is nobody throwing away or trashing cards anymore (see the other post floating around), but the cards are being mass-produced.  Your last opportunity to find that heir containing Musial/Mays/Mantle cards would have probably been in the late '70s (or maybe even in the early '80s).  By the time that Beckett started coming out with his monthly price guide in 1984, you lost your opportunity completely.  Like I said, the cat is already out of the bag.  Everyone has already tried collecting for investment.  Unfortunately, I got my start in the hobby during this era.  The market became saturated, and the investment opportunity was destroyed.

Thurman Thomas cards started coming out after cards became viewed as stocks--especially his early cards.  Modern card slabbing isn't something that's going to become more rare in the future, unless people start collecting old slabs.  Cards have already been "discovered".  If you do find something before it's discovered (like '82TT C.Ripken or '11TU M.Trout), it'll probably be by chance and not in the quantities required to make it a worthwhile investment. 

Basically, the gold rush is over.

dilemma19 wrote:

Where can I find one of these heirs willing to sell me a stack of inherited Musial/Mays/Mantle cards for the cost of a PS4??

The only issue is, when your grand kids are all grown up there may be a significant difference in price one way or another. Basically, it's worth what someone is willing to pay for it.