(Disclaimer: I'm not associated with Lew, nor his auctions, nor am I a consigner, nor do I receive anything for posting this ... I'm just passing along info from his email I received today. A link to his auction site is at the end of the message. Best Regards, Craig)
Our April 7th auction is complete at 560 lots and is at the printers. We are no longer taking consignments. We expect to have the catalogs in the mail Around March 7th and the auction should be on line March 14th. PDF's of the catalog should be available the end of February and anyone wanting one should send me an email.
Private viewing for this auction will be available on weekdays from Monday, March 6th to Friday April 1st at our office in Scottsdale, Arizona. This period covers almost the entirety of Spring Training for those inclined to make a vacation out of it. We strongly encourage viewing not only for the rarer items but the many wholesale lots which range from tobacco, caramel and 30's gum cards to the Topps and Bowmans. There will be no viewing on weekends or auction week. We expect it to be very busy and half day or full day appointments must be made in advance and you must provide a list of items you wish to see.
Following is some highlights from the auction and I hope you agree that it’s the best auction we’ve ever had.
Highlights:
Rare cards including an N175 large Gypsy Queen, an 1870 CDV of the Forest City team, an 1890 Waldon Smith Players League Cabinet of the Boston Club , Near complete T205, T206, T207 sets which have been broken down into 26 lots; Better complete sets including B18 Blankets, 1934 Goudey, Goudy Heads Up, Scrapps, 1948-9 Leafs (in 4 lots), Dandee Potato Chips, Journal American nr set ;
Historic 19th Century Cabinet cards and Baseball newspapers, over 50 Ty Cobb, Honus Wagner, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig , Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays cards in individual lots; A terrific baseball book collection from a MLB executive featuring the very rare Mike “King” Kelly’s “Play Ball” and “Busting ‘Em” with the dust jacket ;
Almost every Topps and Bowman baseball set from 1948-1975 and A high grade run of 1952 Topps High numbers , all PSA graded in 28 lots; Almost all the Topps and Bowman Football sets
An unusually large Postcard section highlighted by a lot of 22 Bregstones, a Winthrop Flip Movie postcard of McGinnity, Panoramic team postcards of the 1907 Rustlers and the 1907 Giants and much more;
A small but powerful autograph section highlighted by 3 Babe Ruth signed items, a possible Ty Cobb single signed ball and a large collection of over 450 signed members of the College Football Hall of Fame, all authenticated
Also a World Series ticket collection starting in 1912 17 Rare Whitehead & Hoag PCL PM5’s and other rare pins and an enormous amount of wholesale lots for dealers from tobacco to thirties gum cards to hundreds of Exhibits to thousands of 1950-‘s Topps and Bowmans
I hope you're looking forward to the auction.
Thanks
Lew
http://www.oldjudge.com