Cobb W600 – Image courtesy REA
We speculated recently that the coronavirus pandemic that’s sweeping our nation might lead to a weakness in the vintage card market.
With many service-based businesses completely shut down and unemployment filings rising by the day, it was of my opinion that the economic stress could lead to a dip in card prices.
However, for now, if we only look at the recent results at the REA Spring 2020 Auction, the vintage card market is showing minimal signs of weakness.
Past recessions have shown that collectors do tend to hold onto their beloved cards until things have really come off the wheels. So far, it looks like that could be the case again, although not much is certain in regards to this coronavirus.
In this piece, we examine some of the auction results and provide a look into the health of the vintage card market.
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