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"I thought they looked nice and wondered whether they might be a good investment"

He did not care. It was his sons hobby, he collected them as a very remote investement, then forgot

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But bought very rare cards and kept them in mint condition?
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The cards themselves weren’t very rare when he bought them and it’s quite easy to keep them in mint condition if you never played the game.
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It sounds like he bought complete sets.
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