Curated Legacy

A company connecting passion with nostalgia helping people build a portfolio of alternative investments that you can hold admire and show off

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@scarcito Revolver is such a treat

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@JuddLegum Do u not follow the stock market. Use basic Chat GPT and learn something before posting again. Idiot

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@NoLimitGains In all of history. He is Edison Tesla Bell all rolled into one

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@Royals_Cards Understood

[Bigpapi34 @Bigpapi343]

I mean cmon @Leaf_Cards This card is Freakin Insane! @WatchTheBreaks @NEOCards_Comics @CardsMax @Mr_Sandlot @dalsubfan @yanxchick @Ryans_Cardz @Steve_Grad @itsgeoffwilson

[Bigpapi34 @Bigpapi343]

Starting to prepare for @nsccshow preparing what cards to take and starting to price them out. Holy shit the market is up in the last year. In some cases 150% but even 50%. I certainly pay attention but some of these increases are mind blowing @NEOCards_Comics @natsturner @sportscardsliv1 @the27guy @Steve_Grad @WatchTheBreaks @KenGoldin @Mr_Sandlot

[Goldin @GoldinCo]

You're looking at some of the most important Harry Potter cards ever made ⚡

Your Hogwarts letter is waiting in the Spring Pop Culture Elite Auction: https://t.co/YtRmM4O8nP

A triple-signed Prisoner of Azkaban card featuring Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint alongside a multi-signed Goblet of Fire relic card with Robert Pattinson and fellow cast members.

From the franchise's three central stars to actor-worn costume pieces, these cards capture the magic that defined a generation.

[Curated Legacy @CuratedLegacy_]

@TimFimble1980 @CardPurchaser It's a mega box what did u expect. It has about as good of odds as a lottery ticket

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@jl8915 @CardPurchaser @Topps The lack of hits or ROI has been common knowledge now for like 20 years. Why did u buy it in the 1st place?

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

A 24-year-old Polish tennis player arrived in Paris last week ranked 114th in the world, with no sponsors, no guaranteed income, and no certainty she could even pay for her hotel room.

She had to win three qualifying matches just to enter the French Open main draw. Prize money is only paid at the end of the tournament, so a Polish sports drink brand quietly stepped in and covered her hotel bill.

Her name is Maja Chwalinska. And today, she plays in the French Open final.

Before this tournament, she had won exactly one Grand Slam main draw match in her entire career. She had battled depression so severe that in 2021 she couldn't get out of bed. She underwent knee surgery in 2022. She spent years grinding through small tournaments across Europe just to stay afloat.

Then she arrived in Paris, won three qualifiers, and kept winning. Zheng Qinwen. Elise Mertens. Maria Sakkari. Diana Shnaider. Nine straight matches. One set dropped.

She is now the first qualifier in French Open history to reach the final. The last time a qualifier reached a Grand Slam final, it was Emma Raducanu at the 2021 US Open. Raducanu won.

By simply making the final, Chwalinska has earned more prize money than her entire career combined. The runner-up cheque alone is $1.6 million. If she wins today, she takes home $3.25 million.
One week ago she couldn't pay for her hotel room.

[JDsSportsCards @4SeamCards]

Saw this on Instagram this morning and was curious what others think? It does make some sense to me. @CardPurchaser @cardhedger @eddiemcpigskin

[🎼🌺Music Love♥️ @ThoNg676733]

This never gets old, ever . The 60’s and 70’s were amazing! I didn’t realize how good it was at the time.🎶
Lisa Leonard Dalton dancing to "Hang on Sloopy" by The McCoys, 1965.

[Curated Legacy @CuratedLegacy_]

@altxyzofficial I have one as well. Don't you guys have a process where u will give my some percentage of the value?

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@SportsCardInv So many

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

Chicago lost the Bears this week. A team that's been in the city since 1921.

They didn't lose them to a bigger market or a better deal. The Bears decided they'd rather be a tenant in Indiana than deal with Illinois for one more year.

Think about how badly you have to run a place for that to be the smart move.

They lost them for two reasons.

The people running Illinois would rather villainize a builder than keep one. And they're bad at their jobs.

In 2021 the Bears spent $197M on the old Arlington Park racetrack.

Before they could break ground, Cook County valued the empty lot at $192M (Bears said $60M). They were salivating at the chance to extort a building that didn't even exist yet.

That fight dragged on for years.

The Bears were ready to put $2B into the stadium. All they wanted was a promise the county wouldn't reassess them into oblivion, plus $855M for infrastructure everyone uses. Roads, transit, utilities. A $3B project, two thirds of it private money pouring into Illinois.

Springfield had since 2021 to get this done. They dragged it to the final night of session, passed it through the Senate at 3:39AM, and the House went home without voting.

So now it's all gone.

The funniest part? This started because Cook County tried to grab the tax early. They knew a built stadium would pay $53M a year. Now they get under $4M on a vacant lot. No jobs, no buildout, no new anything.

Congrats on fighting for scraps and losing the whole prize.

Pritzker: they're "an $8.5B valued business" that doesn't need propping up.

But be smart for a second. Almost every NFL city throws in public money for a stadium. Not charity. The return is real. Tourism, hotels, restaurants, jobs, game days, property tax on a huge development. The math works.

Indiana did the math. While Illinois sat on it for years, Indiana passed a bill in months, put up $1B, and took the team.

And the Bears took a worse deal to get there. In Illinois they were going to own their stadium. In Indiana they rent it from the state. A team that wanted to build its own home gave up ownership just to escape Chicago.

Nobody won but Indiana. The Bears lost their stadium. Illinois lost the team, the $2B, and $53M a year in taxes.

Pritzker after they left: "I wasn't willing to give up billions of dollars of taxpayer money to give it to a billionaire-owned family or team."

There it is. "Billionaire-owned."

That's how Democrats talk about any business right before they run it out of town. Call them a billionaire, act like you're saving working families, take a victory lap while the tax base drives across the state line.

Meanwhile they're running the whole state into the ground. And you already know how this ends. You're living in it.

Pensions are $143B in the hole, worst in the country and not close. You pay $6,285 a year in property taxes, double the $2,969 national average, for a city that's $1.15B in the red. The mayor called its finances "the point of no return."

When you run things this badly, you sell what's left.

They leased the parking meters for 75 years to Morgan Stanley and a sovereign wealth fund in Abu Dhabi. Took $1.15B and burned through it in two years. The investors already made it all back, with 58 years left to collect.

Sold the Skyway. Sold the downtown garages. Every asset that made money, gone for one check.

But a fixed property tax rate for a team that's been here 106 years? That's "propping up billionaires."

Companies are leaving. Boeing for Virginia. Caterpillar for Texas. Citadel for Miami. In 2023 alone Illinois lost 56,000 people and $6B in income to other states. The ones who left earned a third more than the ones who moved in.

Indiana didn't outbid anyone. AAA credit, 16 years straight. A $676M surplus. Fourth-lowest debt per person in the country. They just weren't a disaster.

Illinois could have collected $53M a year. It chose zero. Ignore all the bad management but make sure to stick it to those evil, pesky billionaires.

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@notgaetti Amen

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@discogs Hundreds

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@WaxMetrix Sad. No video cameras?

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@mpaterson44 @CardPurchaser Pop 1!