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04-07-2014, 08:30 PM
I'm sorry, please bare with me, I'm not sure if I'm phrasing this quite right and then I have multiple questions. :confused:
With more and more autograph cards coming out these days, I was wondering if an inserted autographed card signed during a player's career have a little bit more of a special meaning to it than a card that was signed after the player retired? I don't necessarily mean that an autographed card signed during the player's career should have a premium to it versus those that were signed in retirement, but does it have a little more sentimental value to anyone?
Of course, there are players that were already retired before inserted autographed cards made their debut in the early 1990's so those players really don't apply (like most of the players that I try to collect :(). This is more about players that rarely signed during their playing career (i.e., Patrick Ewing, Karl Malone, Scottie Pippen, and John Stockton) and now are signing more in their retirement years. Would you rather have an autographed insert card signed during their career for your personal collection or would any autographed card be okay?
I asked because I was just reading that apparently Mickey Mantle autographs signed early in his career are in higher demand than ones that were signed after his career was over and I found that kind of interesting :coffee:(The Sign of a True Rookie, RookieBall? and RookieGraph? Documents Rookie Autographs (http://www.psacard.com/Articles/ArticleView/6711/the-sign-of-a-true-rookie-rookieball-and-rookiegraph-documents-rookie-autographs)).
In the card world, since more inserted autograph cards are coming out these days, it seems like the getting the "best" of their autographed Rookie Cards would be the way to go :)!. But most economical option would be to get any autographed card that you like and not necessarily the player's first autographed card.
Which brings me to my last question, is there even a higher demand for a player's first autographed card, if there aren't any autographed RCs, after there's been 3 or more different cards? An recent extreme example of this would be for football's Richard Sherman. Will his first autograph cards hold the values after he has more autograph cards later? (Richard Sherman Autographs Cards Tough to Come By, Fetching Big Prices (http://www.cardboardconnection.com/richard-sherman-autograph-cards)). Damon Lillard would have been a good basketball example of this if Panini hadn't made a late agreement with Leaf to make autographed RCs.
With more and more autograph cards coming out these days, I was wondering if an inserted autographed card signed during a player's career have a little bit more of a special meaning to it than a card that was signed after the player retired? I don't necessarily mean that an autographed card signed during the player's career should have a premium to it versus those that were signed in retirement, but does it have a little more sentimental value to anyone?
Of course, there are players that were already retired before inserted autographed cards made their debut in the early 1990's so those players really don't apply (like most of the players that I try to collect :(). This is more about players that rarely signed during their playing career (i.e., Patrick Ewing, Karl Malone, Scottie Pippen, and John Stockton) and now are signing more in their retirement years. Would you rather have an autographed insert card signed during their career for your personal collection or would any autographed card be okay?
I asked because I was just reading that apparently Mickey Mantle autographs signed early in his career are in higher demand than ones that were signed after his career was over and I found that kind of interesting :coffee:(The Sign of a True Rookie, RookieBall? and RookieGraph? Documents Rookie Autographs (http://www.psacard.com/Articles/ArticleView/6711/the-sign-of-a-true-rookie-rookieball-and-rookiegraph-documents-rookie-autographs)).
In the card world, since more inserted autograph cards are coming out these days, it seems like the getting the "best" of their autographed Rookie Cards would be the way to go :)!. But most economical option would be to get any autographed card that you like and not necessarily the player's first autographed card.
Which brings me to my last question, is there even a higher demand for a player's first autographed card, if there aren't any autographed RCs, after there's been 3 or more different cards? An recent extreme example of this would be for football's Richard Sherman. Will his first autograph cards hold the values after he has more autograph cards later? (Richard Sherman Autographs Cards Tough to Come By, Fetching Big Prices (http://www.cardboardconnection.com/richard-sherman-autograph-cards)). Damon Lillard would have been a good basketball example of this if Panini hadn't made a late agreement with Leaf to make autographed RCs.