So What Did REA Prices Suggest About Current Market?

[GregMitch34]

Always a question. What looks healther? Less healthy?

[RCMcKenzie]

Everything I looked at sold for at or above what I thought it would. I would have guessed the T214 lot would have gone for around 1800 and it went for 3000 etc..

[CMIZ5290]

Still can't believe the T206 Chase PSA 8 went for $6k......Pretty healthy if you ask me....

[calvindog]

Still can't believe the T206 Chase PSA 8 went for $6k......Pretty healthy if you ask me....

Especially since it has a Harris Collection flip.

[cyseymour]

I thought that prices were low, especially on the T205's, high grade OJ's and some of the rare back t206's. The price on the Delahanty was impressive.

[thehoodedcoder]

Especially since it has a Harris Collection flip.

pardon my ignorance on this. what is wrong with the harris collection. i think one of the board members was actively collecting those. but i might be wrong.

kevin

[cyseymour]

pardon my ignorance on this. what is wrong with the harris collection. i think one of the board members was actively collecting those. but i might be wrong.

kevin

Many collectors believe those cards to be trimmed.

[ullmandds]

Harris collection cards have a tendency of being undernourished... If you know what I mean!

[Peter_Spaeth]

Harris collection cards have a tendency of being undernourished... If you know what I mean!

Shear speculation!! :D

[CMIZ5290]

I have several Harris cards in my T206 collection that I feel good about, but there are also several that I have seen over the years that I don't....

[Exhibitman]

pardon my ignorance on this. what is wrong with the harris collection. i think one of the board members was actively collecting those. but i might be wrong.

kevin

They're a cut above the rest...

[brianp-beme]

They're a cut above the rest...

Slim chance.

Brian

[Exhibitman]

Slim chance.

Brian

The razor's edge of possibility...

[cyseymour]

I think he gets it. But what are people's thoughts on the original post?

[Peter_Spaeth]

Mid grade Goudey Ruths seemed very strong, but they always are in REA.

[Bosox Blair]

Can't comment on T205s since I have no interest in them (and I'm too cynical to buy "'super-high-grade" T205s anyways...)

I thought the OJs weren't too high, but I agree the Delehanty fetched a fine price. I thought the Rusie was a deal, but could not justify going for it since I bought an OJ Rusie in the last year.

I was bidding on 13 various lots, including OJs, caramel cards, bread cards, autographed items, and display/art pieces. I ran out of room on 11 of those lots, which by my reckoning went at or above recent market value.

From my perspective, a lot of the display/art pieces went for low prices. Like the Pirates piece Greg showed in the REA Pickups thread. And Lot 841 (the ex-Halper Chicago PL composite) went cheap I thought...half the price it got back in 1999???

I even got in on the act myself, snagging the Varin aquatint for less than half the price of prior sales:

[sago]

The razor's edge of possibility...

Thin market

[brob28]

Curious what the group thinks about the prices realized on some of the T206 rare & semi-rare backs such as:

Red Hindu - Wheat
Tolstoi - Wheat
Tolstoi - Chance

I was interested in all of these, bidding was basically over by 10:00 on these. I was looking at past REA auctions 2012 & 2011, seems prices on these may be down a tad or stagnant over the past few years? As someone starting a back run, interested in what you all think.

Also, just thought it interesting that the restored Plank went for roughly $16,000; an authentic (trimmed I think) went for $41,000 in the 2011 auction. I personally would not be interested in a restored card, but very interested in a restored mid-year vette. ;)

[wolterse]

Always a question. What looks healther? Less healthy?

I thought the t205s sold low...I was watching the low pop variations and thought the chance, wallace, Hoblitzell, wilhelm sold at about 80% of previous closes....

[calvindog]

I thought the t205s sold low...I was watching the low pop variations and thought the chance, wallace, Hoblitzell, wilhelm sold at about 80% of previous closes....

Maybe the T205s sold a bit lower than usual because they weren't sold in a Legendary or Mastro auction -- and the consignor, who has the best set, wasn't bidding for them.

[RCMcKenzie]

The T205 went lower because there are not enough T205 High-Grade collectors to absorb that many offerings all at once. Similar to what happened to all the e107 offered at once earlier in the year.

[Fred]

Cobb check at $700 (about $831 w/juice) and Johnson check at $1100 (about $1300) were not strong when compared to other auctions in the past couple years.

The OJs were a mixed bag. The larger lots were actually reasonable when you look at the price per card average. The Delahanty was strong.

[RCMcKenzie]

Fred, I thought the 2 big OJ lots went for fairly good deals, but I have a defeatist attitude about going after those. I think REA would do better to break those up into smaller groups or single lots. I was under bidder on the N173 Sommers and Seward that went fair at 1300, that was as close as I got to winning anything. I would have bid more on several card issues had REA broken down the lots, as I am not a dealer.

[Fred]

My comments meant that I thought the lots were good deals because of the price per card average for both lots was reasonable. I'm a 19th century junky so I really like large lots like those. Good possibility that who ever won the large lots could piece the cards out and do fairly well in breaking up the lots.

[RCMcKenzie]

All I can say is that in the past, Bidder A outbids me on giant lot, offers me some of the cards I wanted from the lot, I pay, and receive the cards from bidder A before I receive other lots from the same auction house.