EVAJOY91
07-16-2014, 06:41 AM
Collectors, just picked up this Beauty. Dated 1900 photo by Pach Bros, NY. Yale champions is on the football along with the scores "Yale 29-Princeton 5 & Yale 28-Harvard 0" .
YALE WENT 12-0 THAT SEASON.
As always, i need to know what the value i can place on when i go to the National to sell. Thanks again, Michael
If original, nice photo. Wikipediaed it: The 1900 Yale football team was undefeated National Champion and had six All-Americans, including College HOFer Gordon Campbell and a future head coach of Ohio State. The head coach Malcolm McBride was a Yale All-American in 1898 and 1899. The team gave up a total of 10 points for the entire season.
A lot of value is related to size. All other things equivalent, the larger the more valuable. It's important to the size if you want valuation opinions. Condition matters too and, of course, it's impossible to tell with the photo matted and framed. Though I see a tear.
An original 1900 Yale National Champions football photo will have vale, but it's impossible to give a specific $$ without more info.
With these types of original photos, you can put a somewhat higher price and haves barter room.
To be candid, when someone wants to sell something, I'd like to know what they paid for it. If someone paid $1000, I hate to tell them it's worth $800. But if he got it for $200, it's nice to say "Man, you could sell that for $500 minimum easy." Those prices are example prices, not my pricing of your Yale photo.
Also note that those you don't sell at the National, you can consign to auction. There will be many auction houses there to chose from who are happy to take quality vintage photos. You could get rid of your entire collection thru direct selling and consigning at Cleveland if you wanted.
I've been around photos a long time and it can be hard for me to price individual ones. Many photos are unique-- they aren't like baseball cards. Sometimes that's what auctions are for-- to identify the price. But, following past prices and knowing rarity and all that, you can get a reasonable ballpark idea for a price.