Yes they still are, but there is a way to make them valuable. This was posted on the Cardboard Connection earlier in the month and I just saw it today. Since I do a lot of ranting and raving about late 80s and early 90s wax, when I found this I just sat there slack jawed and tried to figure it out:
This picture of the T206 Wagner card was made from cut outs of cards from 1985-1990. The idea behind it was that the artist, Tim Carroll, wanted to take his 997 worthless commons from the worthless era and turn them into something beautiful and worth something. He picked the Wagner card as his subject because it is considered the Holy Grail of card collecting.
From a distance it’s tough to tell, but there are a lot of crap cards rolled into this work of art, as you can see from the pictures below:
This is actually going to be a new series of works for him. In celebration of the card’s 100 year anniversary, he is making 100 lithographs available to the public. For more information on Tim Carroll’s work or this particular piece, visit his website <link>. He has since done, the 1952 Mickey Mantle card, Joe Nameth rookie card, Jerry Rice rookie card and Griffey Jr. Upper Deck rookie card. It really is amazing that your old junk wax can be turned into something rather special.
That’s awesome! I saw his post on The Bench about his work and he has some awesome collages like the Wagner. You should check out his site where he has info on all of them he did so far.
amazing art piece using the overprint cards
I like your taste RNCoyote love it really
you should send a link to this picture to people that your craiglist idiots thing on
bad english lol
that’s cool but realize too that back in 1990, most of the cards you would have had in your possession at the time were “worthless”. only a few players were valuable cards to own. I had the most fun putting older sets together from before I even started the hobby. I found some cheap donruss and got fascinated with the year and putting the series together. it was much fun and the cards were really cheap because the year I suppose was undesirable for players. kinda silly though since your typical 1989 donruss card was way over mass produced and seemed to have more value. I enjoyed the different artwork they put on the cards and I was a huge donruss fan. topps seemed kind of second to it but still good. i miss the old cheap bubblegum sticks and wax packs.
In collecting for value
Items have collector value because they are rare. The reason your dads and grandads cards have sexy sexy prices is (1) when I was a kid we would put them on our bikes or sharpen their edge throw them at girls who came to our clubhouse. (2) parents didn’t spend so much of their income on kids luxury so manufactures didnt crank them out like an ammo factory in a time of war like they did in the 80′s/90.
Meaning if they are made to be collected (your state quarter sets, bb cards, bbabies, collectors edition this,etc..) odds are they will be collected and as they are sold in huge quantites/large scale – everyone collects them and thus they have no value as they dont get destroyed.
Take nascar monopoly (or whatever else they add to collect). 20 something bucks everyone has one with greed for later and 20 yrs later they are worth $maybe $20 if your luck and no money earnt on $ (though at 1.something % rates not missing out too much)
^However instead look at a solid gold piece set on an ivory board made by them. The ungodly price tag keeps the 10′s/100′s of millions of collectors away and actually gives your item value with time (provided you didnt buy 100 crappy things and instead bought 1 good one)
Not to judge -I have boxes of bbc’s who would now just be like having a fire made out of a slightly more expensive wood. Nothing near the 90′s prices. If I could go back to my 12yrold self I would liquidate immediately, pick some magical stocks and not sleep with that bitch nancy.
I guess its okay for a card thats suppose to be worth alot of money on this other website