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To add to his impressive list of accomplishments, Gretzky just set another NHL record. He sold his rookie card for $3.75 million, making it the most expensive hockey card ever sold. Heritage Auctions was reported by ESPN to have sold the Gem Mint 10 graded 1979 O-Pee-Chee Gretzky rookie card for a record-breaking price. An anonymous buyer had dreamed of owning the card for a long time.

One of P.E.E.C. Gretzky's teammates sold for $1.29 million in December last year. This single Gretzky O-Pee-Chees card went for more than $1 million, one of two Gem Mint 10 cards graded in 1979. In 2016, that same card sold for just $465,00, despite the booming industry of trading cards in the past five years.

The record holder for the most points earned by an NHL player is Gretzky, who led the league in goals and assists.

His NHL career has seen him play for the Edmonton Oilers, Los Angeles Kings, St Louis Blues, and New York Rangers. Having won four Stanley Cups, the 60-year-old is a four-time NHL champion.

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The number of trading cards produced during the 1986-93 era was in the millions, so the likelihood that any will appreciate substantially over the next few decades is slim. A much smaller number of insert cards was made. If you can sort those out, it may be worth your time. You should also save any autographed cards.

You might find it more helpful to rely on Ebay completed listings rather than Beckett's as a price guide. Card values provided by Beckett's are not accurate. Many cards sold for less than half their Beckett price even in the early 1990's heyday.

Prepare yourself to accept less than they may be worth if you choose to sell the whole thing. Towards this assumption, any dealer will make an offer taking into account the possibility of receiving thousands of useless "common" cards. It may even be quite challenging for most dealers to make an offer at all as sorting cards takes so much time. The value of time is immeasurable. A large proportion of dealers have a large stock of cards from the junk period. The trash has been thrown in some cases.

You should definitely sift through your old cards if they are from before 1986. Even the "commons" were produced in fewer quantities, which increased their collectability and value.

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Our passion is to hold a piece of history and to share it with the people around us. Furthermore, humans are hardwired to like objects of value, to be pleased with them, and to impress others (whether or not they know it).

Collecting something serious usually involves having an idea of what you want your collections to be when it comes time to sell or hand them down. The aspect of collecting that draws us into the “sport” aspect is that there are always elusive but possible additions to our collections, but they may be too expensive or difficult to obtain. Despite this, eBay demonstrates that this is one of the most rewarding aspects of collecting.

Collecting is a common practice. Among the few collectible items, trading cards were designed for collecting! Their photos, dates, and other information make them easy to catalog; they have a provenance built in.

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