Like many of you, your collecting "career" probably started when you were a little kid. Whether starting with basketball or baseball cards, to figurines and comics, the seeds were likely planted in a formative time in your youth. But for me, and from a financial standpoint, it was never a focal point where I saw it as an investment class where I would allocate serious dollar amounts. As I got older, I started to collect what one could categorize as "fine art", from Picasso to George Condo prints, where spending $20K - $30K is probably a starting point. I've always seen the two worlds, "collectibles" and "fine art", as discrete and separate.
But in the last few years, I have started to see a niche "custom art card" scene emerge where artists leverage sport/pop-culture/anime subject matters, but in limited edition, hand-drawn releases. It has flown under the radar thus far, with examples going anywhere from $50 - $150. But a relatively new artist nicknamed "Piggybanx" has really burst onto the scene with an interesting take on collectible "gaming mechanics" with fine-art collectibility. Piggybanx borrows unique traits from both worlds, creating "collectible fine art" that leverages the concepts of limited-edition variations from the sportcards world, with the limited and curated access from the fine-art world. And now with a new wall-art sized form-factor, I feel like Piggybanx now has both feet planted in both worlds.
Anybody else here who collects from either sides have any opinions? Have you heard of Piggybanx? New pieces retail for $400, but immediately resales on secondary for 3-5x within days. More desirable variations have sold for high 5-figures already. Is this a real, sustainable market, or just a flash in the pan?
