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Posted By: Anonymous

Many thanks to Bob, Jay, and others for a much improved format. And thanks to Bob for a more accurate market value listing for reference. I was happy to see Ned Hanlon fall back to a reasonable price behind Dan Brouthers & Sam Thompson (poses shown with Detroit):

Brouthers (3) => $3000, $1350, $750
Hanlon (3) => $1500, $675, $375
Thompson (5) => $2400, $1075, $600

Last year Hanlon was listed higher than Brouthers & Thompson which just didn't make sense to me (barring some unknown rarity which doesn't seem to be the case). All other 1887 Detroit players are commons as expected.

The one surprise I encountered was while looking up the four 1888 issued Detroit cards of Lady Baldwin, Pete Conway, Charlie Getzein, and Deacon White. For reasons I don't understand, the Lady Baldwin is carrying an elevated value as follows:

Lady Baldwin => $1600, $725, $400
Conway, Getzein, & White => $600, $270, $150 (commons)

Did I miss some recent auction or other exchange that warrants the elevated value of Baldwin? Just curious.

BTW, I treasure my old price guides which list all poses and variations. I hope you can return to that format some day.

Regards,
Joe Gonsowski