Pokemon Card Price & Historical Preservation

Preserving vintage Pokemon cards is legally becoming a form of historical preservation. A 1st Edition Base Set legally holds a pokemon card price that mirrors a 1952 Mickey Mantle rookie card in baseball. Legally, archivists are studying how to best preserve these cards for future generations. Illegally, some individuals intentionally destroy vintage cards for TikTok clout, legally reducing the available supply and artificially inflating the pokemon card price for the remaining cards.