Anyone here go to the T206 auction today in New Holland,PA?
 

Just wondering if anyone here was at the New Holland,PA auction today where they had a bunch of T206's?

Yes, I was there along with a few other Net 54 members. The prices were fairly strong, I mean most lots went for double what I would have paid. I did manage the pick up a Elberfeld Washington portait for myself.

Do you remember what Cobb went for? Also, I heard someone say there was a $10,000 card there? Was there? Was it the Doyle?

I believe the Cobb was $1100 and maybe the Doyle was the other card?

I thought it might go over $1,000. Thanks for the info.

I couldn't make it but my mother went and won lots 6 and 16 for a little over $500. She said nothing went cheap.

Dan, your mom is way beyond cool! Great story!

Lovely Day...

Yea, she's the best, I had a medical procedure done last week and just couldn't make it, she's 70 and has more energy than me ; )

I was there
 

I picked up nine of the lots (4, 9, 12, 14, 17, 20, 25, 23, 31), but paid pretty much retail price. Only one of them went for under my max price. No bargains whatsoever. Out of the 81 cards, only 35 are good enough to go to SGC, the best of which was a nice Bay (SL).

The Cobb did go for around $1100 as Andrew said... I think that was the highest price paid for any card or lot. The "rarest" card was the Elberfeld that Andrew picked up (in the lot with a nice Hooker and Titus).

I don't know how they organized the lots vs some of the singles. The first single was Abbaticcio brown... at most a $15 card in the condition. I believe it sold for $75. I think that the VG Collins was the best single buy at around $130.

The funniest thing to me was listening to the "coin guys" joke about the fools there to buy cardboard after their two hour marathon. This coming from guys paying $10 for a penny :D

I was there but wish I wasn't except for meeting some members. I don't know what retail means in the t206 market but those prices were ridiculous. All the pages had 9 cards and they mostly sold for at least $300. Most of them had a few $10 cards, maybe 2 $30 cards and the rest $20 cards. My max bid was not over $200 on any of the common pages. If I lived closer I would have gone home and got my cards to sell:)
It was a 10' X10" room with about 40 people in it. Maybe they couldn't see what was being sold. Thank God for Ebay and the BST.

What is funny is that the prices were super high but there were a good number of people bidding. I say funny because I set up at a local show last month with about 150 T206's for half of the price that was paid at this auction and most people just walked right past the table.

By retail I'm referring to my perceived "actual value" of the cards with little to no room to make money on resale. I agree with your assessment on the value of the common lots at $200. In fact, the six lots of commons that I won averaged just under $200. I wouldn't have gone another increment on any of them.

I expected to be able to pick up some bargains, but that wasn't the case. Some of the common lots went for double my max, and I think most of the singles went for at least two to three times my max.

I think that you were right about arranging an "estate sale" as opposed to setting up at a show. You'd definitely make at least twice as much.

If you won lot 21 with the oc merkle throwing, I would buy it from you. dmb102175@comcast.net