Are these Cobbs Trimmed?

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Posted By: <b>Jamie</b><p>Need help trying to figure out if these Cobbs are trimmed.. I know this might not be the easiest question just from the pictures.. but if they are not trimmed.. what condition do you think they both are in.. vg and vg-ex...?<br><img src="http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg309/blunder19/cobbf.jpg" alt="[linked image]"><br><img src="http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg309/blunder19/cobb-1.jpg" alt="[linked image]"><br><br><img src="http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg309/blunder19/cobb2.jpg" alt="[linked image]"><br><img src="http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg309/blunder19/cobb2back.jpg" alt="[linked image]"><br>Thanks<br>

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Posted By: <b>Frank Wakefield</b><p>350 - yes<br><br>350/460 - yes, just barely, though.<br><br><br>Still, nice looking Cobbs.

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Posted By: <b>scott brockelman</b><p>Neither one appear to be trimmed to me.<br><br>Scott<br><br>

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Posted By: <b>Jimmy</b><p>they do look short, but maybe just miscut - the corners look okay because the wear looks old and not a recent cut. I would just grade them anyways and see what happens. The bottom one looks more trimmed<br><br><br><br>Jimmy

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Posted By: <b>Matt</b><p>Many of the lots in that auction sold for very strong prices. <br><br>eBay bidder a***r 119 seems to be winning a large percentage of the lots, including both Cobbs in question above.

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Posted By: <b>Doug</b><p>That bidder won the 350-460 one I had bid on for $1500!

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Posted By: <b>James Gallo</b><p>I just got back from this sale the cards went NUTS and it was all to ebay biddres and a few cobbs went to phone bidders. I didn't think those cobbs were trimmed so glad I didn't get them. I knew one of the Mattys was trimmed and it went for $600+.<br><br>Considering I spent 6+ hours looking over the cards I thought I had a good handle on the condition and value. My gut is that everything went for 70-80% of retail which is nuts considering there were probably more trimmed cards then I noticed and they were all raw.<br><br>This was a single owner collection that was passed down, so any trimming was done ages ago.<br><br>I also was not happy with the auctionieer. He kept VERY long counts which made it very hard to close on a lot regardless of if it was phone, floor or internet bidders.<br><br>I would say that probably only 10-15 card lots sold to floor bidders and most people didn't win more then 1 or 2.<br><br>I found it interesting that there were not a lot of odd cards with only a 2-3 ghost images and nothing totally nuts.<br><br>I will post more on the lot I won later as well as the details of the sale total as I kept track.<br><br>James G<br><br>Looking for 1915 Cracker Jacks and 1909-11 American Caramel E90-1.

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Posted By: <b>Matt</b><p>By my cursory glance, the eBay bidder mentioned above won about 3/4 of the card lots - maybe he wanted to keep the collection together. <br><br>The prices seemed very strong to me - both on individual cards and on lots. James - I'd be frustrated if I put the work in that you did.

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Posted By: <b>Brian</b><p>I thought the prices were high, I was on eBay, I picked up 2 of the beater Cobb's plus 3 of the 24+ card lots, including 2 dark cap Matty's a couple of Crawford's and a Walter Johnson short one corner. I am not in it for high grades, I just wanted to add to my collection, and at $40 a card I think I did pretty well considering all the names that filled out the lots.....of course I could be wrong.

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Posted By: <b>James Gallo</b><p>A good deal of the lots had some really beat cards, but there were some nice ones as well. The two beat Cobbs went for $325 Red Port and $375 batt off. Plus the 20% BP I think you could have bought a nicer already graded example and not dealt with the risk of cards being trimmed. <br><br>I am not super familiar with this issue and I certainly didn't measure the cards, but if I noticed some trimmed stuff you can bet there will be more of them I didn't notice.<br><br>I just think it was high risk with little to no reward. That plus almost all the lots were poorly sorted so a lot of them had doubles or even triples of the same cards. There were are least 2-3 lots with several Chance yellow portraits. Oddly enough there were multiples of some HOF and almost none of others.<br><br>It almost was fun, but having so much sell to the net really too a lot out of me. If it wasn't for all the other people not interested in the cards filling the room there would have been 10-15 people tops and we got very little.<br><br>James G<br><br>Looking for 1915 Cracker Jacks and 1909-11 American Caramel E90-1.

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Posted By: <b>Brian</b><p>James<br>I hear what you are saying on the Cobb's, I probably could have gotten graded cards, but I am shifting to &quot;all beater&quot; collecting. Time will tell if I got the right lots or not, I am looking forward to getting them in to see all the cards.<br><br>Sorry it wasn't a better time, I love auctions, and sorely miss east coast sales. I wish I could have attended this sale, more for the fact that I need my Sweetzel's Ginger Snap fix.

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Posted By: <b>Jim VB</b><p>Brian, <br><br>You can buy anything on-line, not just baseball cards. <br><br><br><a href="http://www.pageneralstore.com/products.asp?dept=20" target="_new" rel="nofollow">http://www.pageneralstore.com/products.asp?dept=20</a>

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Posted By: <b>Brian</b><p>Jim gets the gold star of the day!! Just need to get them to ship to Oregon and I am golden!

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Posted By: <b>Jim VB</b><p>They'll ship to you, anywhere in the US. <br><br>(After we moved from Ohio to Texas, my wife and kids have insisted on &quot;ordering in&quot; our old favorite ice cream. If you can ship ice cream, you can ship ginger snaps!)

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Posted By: <b>Brian</b><p>The order is in! Whatta day, 2 Cobb's 2 Matty's and 3 boxes of Sweetzel's!

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Posted By: <b>Rob D.</b><p>Jim,<br><br>Graeter's?

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Posted By: <b>Jim VB</b><p>Rob D, <br><br>Absolutely. The best chocolate chips ice cream around, in a variety of flavors. We order the 12 pack several times each year (try to time it for birthdays, graduations, etc.)

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Posted By: <b>Rob D.</b><p>Jim,<br><br>I'll probably be denied my Golden Buckeye card someday for saying this, but I've never understood all of the raves over Graeter's. I like it, to be sure, just never thought it was all that.<br><br>Now, if you want to talk Skyline Chili, that's a whole 'nother story.

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Posted By: <b>jdrum</b><p>Montgomery Inn ribs and Derosa's Pizza!

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Posted By: <b>Rob D.</b><p>Derosa's?<br><br>Maybe LaRosa's?

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Posted By: <b>jdrum</b><p>Of course, sorry, baseball on the brain.

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Posted By: <b>Jim VB</b><p>My Ohio life was contained to the Columbus area and both Montgomery's and LaRosa's had stayed as Cincy icons while Skyline and Graeters grew north. I hear they're building a Montgomery's in Dublin now. <br><br>Edited to say- Way to hijack a thread, huh?

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Posted By: <b>jdrum</b><p>It's dinnertime, what'ya expect. I only lived in Cincy for about a year but it was great.

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Posted By: <b>Doug</b><p>Our food is great, but our weather leaves a lot to be desired!

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Posted By: <b>jdrum</b><p>your football team. Sorry I couldn't resist. Your food is great; Maisonette, The Mike Fink. I'm getting hungry.

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Posted By: <b>Doug</b><p>We have a great football team as long as you are referring to the Orange Bowl bound Bearcats! The Maisonette was an excellent restaurant, but it went out of business 3 years ago. Mike Fink is being remodeled, but it's supposed to be reopening soon.