[mroczka01]

htowntigger: Thanks! Yeah, different collectors gravitate towards very different things. I like foreign and oddball Jordans because most of the value in owning a card, to me (because I don't plan on ever selling them) is in having something that no one, or very few other people, have. If you are a Jordan collector you might want to check out my trade list (http://www.thejordancollector.com/mjordan.html) Maybe I can help you add some more Jordan cards to your collection, and vice versa. Also, the rest of my personal collection is shown at http://www.thejordancollector.com/jordanihave.html

--Andrew

(03-14-2011 01:05 PM)htowntigger Wrote:  Whoa, that is awesome, great collection! I'm a MJ collector myself. I love seeing other's collections because it seems that everyone focuses on different things. You have a lot of rare cards, some that I can't afford!

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got_watcha_want: It kind of makes me want to donate these to a museum some day. Because some day when I'm not around, if no one else knows some of these cards exist, there's no one to really appreciate them. It would be great to have them on exhibit with a description of the history behind of some of the rarer cards and have lots of people be able to enjoy them. One can fantasize :0)

It's amazing to even the most seasoned Jordan collectors I know how many Jordan cards are still being "discovered." Quite a number of the cards in the scans I posted were only "found" in the last 4-5 years, and more are coming all the time. Usually there is a find of several at a time and they are readily available for a reasonable price for a very short period of time, then it dries up and they get very hard to find and expensive again. I have hundreds of other foreign and oddball Jordan cards in my collection that weren't in the scans, and I still don't think that even scratches the surface of what's potentially out there waiting to be (re)discovered. That's one of the best parts of Jordan collecting though, the constant challenge, whether or not Upper Deck continues to mass-produce short-printed cards. Maybe in 20, 30, 50 years I should take this stuff onto Antiques Roadshow :0)

--Andrew

(03-14-2011 02:40 PM)got watcha want Wrote:  Yeah Ping, these are some of the rarest MJs out there. You will probably not see some of these ever again.

They are getting even harder to find stateside still today, because overseas money makes larger bids or offers on this stuff when it comes up for sale.



mroczka01- thanks for the info on the Fleer Procards #633A, I still learn something new everyday and I have been collecting since 1987. Again, really neat collection and I know how rare some of these are.

Many collectors go for the newer MJ cards that are scarce because his earlier pack distributed stuff was produced in higher print runs. I hope collectors see this thread and realize the rare MJs that were produced back then and maybe start chasing them and in turn, the market for them gets much bigger.