Almost every card in a finished run came across someone's counter, someone's table, someone's break. When a collector on Quest is 54 cards from the end, the people who close that gap are you.
We haven't built your side of it yet. We'd rather say that plainly than sell you a page of features that don't exist.
Rob Frohwein started collecting at six, chasing an older brother who’d already finished the ’73 and ’74 sets and owned a well-loved ’52 Mays and a ’55 Clemente before music won out over cardboard. Rob kept going.
He completed every set from 1977 through 1984 and traded his way to thousands of cards from the ’50s through ’76 — the Philly guys first, then Gibson, Kaline, Killebrew. He wrote letters to the stars of the day and got signatures back, Brooks Robinson among them.
When baseball got expensive and basketball got cheap, he went where the hobby wasn’t. Through the early ’80s he bought more than 20,000 basketball cards — late ’60s through Topps’ last run in 1981-82 — plus a stack of Star Company he still owns.
Then came the NFFL Fro Set in 1991, a comic set of fungus football creatures and his first company. You can still find them on eBay. After that, a sports art company that made almost no money and earned him a lifetime pass to Cooperstown, then a year running a sales channel for The Franklin Mint, then law school.
The collection is past 100,000 cards now. Quest is what that turns into when a collector finally builds the thing he always wanted. He reads this list himself — hello@collect.quest.
Tell us what you deal in and where. When the dealer side is real we'll come to this list first — and we'll want to talk to a few of you long before that.