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Posted By: davidcycleback

Consignors should always include a description or list or highlights or brief summary for the consigned lot. Never assume that the catalog writer is going to look through you lot of 2,000 cards and see all 4 Babe Ruths and the rare error card stuck in middle of the pile. He may only see two Ruths and miss the error card, and write in the catalog that there are 2 Ruths.

I can tell you this as a bidder. I won a Joe Louis memorabilia lot from an auction house. The catalog description said there was one Louis autographed item, a photo. What I received included five Louis autographs: three vintage photographs, a first edition hardcover copy of Louis' 1940s autobiography and an original 1953 movie script to 'The Joe Louis Story.' Not that I was complaining