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On-card vs. sticker

I received this autographed card of Ricky Nolasco from Matthew of Bob Walk the Plank . It's a terrifically designed card made all the more powerful by Nolasco's hard-signed signature. Ricky Nolasco didn't exactly have a long and proud history with the Dodgers, but the card is so nice that I'm very happy to own it. I was so impressed with it, in fact, that I asked myself this question: "Why do I have sticker autographs in my collection?" It seemed like a reasonable question. I'm not really an autograph collector. I don't seek out autograph cards. I view them as a perk, but not the basis of a collection. And if I'm treating them as a perk, shouldn't I accumulate only the autographed cards that look the best to me? The on-card, hard-signed cards? I've also started thinking about possibly selling some of my cards online. Possibly COMC or, shudder the thought, ebay. Sending off some of those sticker autographs would be a sensible firs...