Heritage Spring Auction - Ends April 19 & 20 - Bidding has Begun!

[petecld]

Hey Everyone,

Bidding for the Heritage April Sports Cards Catalog Auction has already started! Ending dates are April 19 and 20, 2018. This year, Heritage is breaking up our usual huge spring catalog auction into two auctions. We will have one in May as we always have but that will be memorabilia only. The April auction is cards, cards and more cards! There is an exciting selection of almost 2,000 lots. The ending of the auction is the same format it has been for years with open bidding ending at 10pm central time then an extended period where each lot ends on an individual basis based on a 30-minute clock rule. You have to have placed a bid on a lot before 10pm central time to be able to bid during the 30-minute extended period. Be sure to check the second session card lots ending on April 20 as there is, as always, a nice selection. The home page for the auction is at: https://sports.ha.com/c/search-resul...owseAll-071515

Registration is free!

This auction has some great cards for both pre- and post-war collectors. Many of the cards come from new finds from outside the hobby and are being auctioned for the first time. Some highlights:

- The Connecticut Find – 19th Century collection featuring an 1888 N338-2 S.F. Hess Mickey Welch plus other rare S.F. Hess cards. Among the dozens of N172 Old Judge cards are two cards of Bid McPhee, Ewing & Mascot, the “New York Mascot” card, plus ten previously unknown team variations including two new Keefe cards;

- Other N172s include Delahanty, Wright, Stovey and Whitney & Dog and McGunnigle;

- 1888 N162 Goodwin "Champions" King Kelly PSA NM-MT 8;

- 1887 N690-1 Kalamazoo Bats Cabinets Bierbauer/Gallagher;

- Post Cards - Dietsche Cubs complete set, PC758 Max Stein cards of Ty Cobb and Buck Weaver, 1908 Suhling $ In Shield Chicago Cubs/White Sox Ed Walsh, 1908-09 Rose Company Christy Mathewson and first tiem offerings of PC796 Johnson, Cobb and Cobb/Wagner;

- T206s – Tolstoi, Old Mill and Polar Bear Cobb portraits, Old Mill Walter Johnson (Hands at Chest) PSA NM-MT 8, Sweet Caporal 350-460/42 Cy Young (Glove Shows) PSA NM-MT 8;

- Candy/Caramel – Great selection of E92 Nadja, E92 Dockman, E93 and E95 including Cobb and Wagner cards, E90-3s, E104-3 Nadja, an E94 Close Candy "Old" Cy Young in PSA 7 and a great selection of E98 Black Swamp cards;

- The only E98 Christy Mathewson card from the Black Swamp Find in PSA EX-MT 6 (MC);

- 1914 Cracker Jack cards of Ty Cobb and Jackson plus Mathewson, Cady, and Pratt rarities;

- 1915 Cracker Jack cards of Ty Cobb and Jackson;

- Eight Men Out Black Sox - A great selection including E270 Colgan's Tin Tops Ed Cicotte, Green-Joyce Hap Felsch, E135 Collins-McCarthy Chick Gandil, E137 Zeenut Swede Risberg & Claude Williams, D310 Buck Weaver, E100 Buck Weaver, D350-1 Standard Biscuit Buck Weaver, plus others including brands like Tango Eggs, Holsum Bread, Herpolsheimer's and Boston Store;

- 1925 Exhibit Gehrig Rookie;

- Babe Ruth - 1916 M101-5 Sporting News (Blank Back) Rookie PSA NM 7, 1917-20 M101-6 Felix Mendelsohn (Yankees), 1921 Exhibits, 1921 E121 American Caramel, 1921-23 E220 National Caramel, W517, Goudey and more;

- 1922 W575-2 Complete Set of (40);

- Extremely rare 1928 Star Player Candy Complete Set (72);

- 1939 Play Ball Ted Williams #92 SGC 92 plus a lot more.


Catalogs – They will be mailed very shortly. If you would like a free catalog please email me all of your mailing information at peterc@ha.com and we will send one out. To keep getting free catalogs we ask (okay, require) that you place a min. of $1,000 in bids in each catalog auction. There are going to be seven in 2018. Bids need to be placed in each catalog auction. Monthly auctions do not count. If there is no activity for even one auction they may not send out a catalog. I know this may sound harsh but the simple answer is these catalogs are becoming so expensive and we are sending out more and more each auction.

Post-war fans will not be disappointed either, check out the “Windy City Collection” and I hear we have a really nice ’52 Mantle.

Good Luck and Thank You for Bidding,

Peter

[petecld]

Hello. Just a friendly reminder that you still have over 24 hours left to get in your initial bids! This a two-day auction so open bidding ends at 10 pm central time on:

Thursday - April 19 for lot #'s 80001 to 81125!

Friday - April 20 for lot #'s 81126 to 81457!

Friday - April 20 for lot #'s 41458 to 81973 - The Windy City Collection!

Good Luck and Thank You to Everyone Who is Bidding!

Peter

[iowadoc77]

Incredible auction once again. Well done Heritage team

[Peter_Spaeth]

3 replies to this thread and 188 on REA. Anyhow, I agree with Eric, a truly outstanding auction.

[sycks22]

Peter and Heritage are great people. There are too many amazing offerings.

[ullmandds]

agreed...I'm much more interested in Heritages offerings this time around.

[T205 GB]

Definitely a very nice selection on the 2 day auctions.

[ullmandds]

im shocked to see a sanella ruth fetching high 3 figures!

[iowadoc77]

Postcards are out of control! Had my eyes on a few, bud in them, and have since taken my eyes back off. Very very nice stuff.

[Fballguy]

Just curious about the Connecticut find...since I ran an ad in the Hartford Courant for years and bought many collections. Where/how was it found and how big was it?

[insidethewrapper]

I know I'm not a computer nerd, but is it just me or is the Heritage Auction Website a bit confusing and hard to navigate. I can't tell if an item is internet bidding only or after the internet it goes to a live auction etc.

[ullmandds]

Originally Posted by insidethewrapper

I know I'm not a computer nerd, but is it just me or is the Heritage Auction Website a bit confusing and hard to navigate. I can't tell if an item is internet bidding only or after the internet it goes to a live auction etc.

its a little tricky to get into the auction but once in its pretty easy.

[Fballguy]

Originally Posted by insidethewrapper

I know I'm not a computer nerd, but is it just me or is the Heritage Auction Website a bit confusing and hard to navigate. I can't tell if an item is internet bidding only or after the internet it goes to a live auction etc.

Agree 100%. The most difficult one to navigate. Was engrossed in the bidding options and then realized I was looking at items that don't end for 17 days. What...do they have a dozen auctions a month?

Great stuff...terrible filtering and navigation.

[Fballguy]

And what's with posting the last minute reserves (well more like 72 hours...but who's counting). Is that to give the consignor an out without turning off bidders early in the process?

[tiger8mush]

Originally Posted by Fballguy

Agree 100%. The most difficult one to navigate.

I think Hunts gets 1st place in that category

[darwinbulldog]

Originally Posted by tiger8mush

I think Hunts gets 1st place in that category

+1. It's almost bad enough that I don't even look at their auctions. Almost.

[iowadoc77]

Once you figure out their platform, it isn’t difficult. But it certainly isn’t intuitive

However, you can preview upcoming auction items MUCH earlier than most other AHs.

[petecld]

Hi Guys,

All of the sports cards in the Connecticut find collection can be found in this auction. You can read the story about the Connecticut find here:

Connecticut Find

There are some great baseball cards in the collection but knowing his story makes the Frank Hart card so cool. Fun read. Click Here

Peter

[petecld]

Originally Posted by insidethewrapper

I know I'm not a computer nerd, but is it just me or is the Heritage Auction Website a bit confusing and hard to navigate. I can't tell if an item is internet bidding only or after the internet it goes to a live auction etc.

This is an easy one. Sports does not do live auctions. We did but that was years ago. Every auction is online and ends with either a 30 minute clock for catalog auctions or a 15 minute clock for the Sunday (or weekly) auctions. In both cases, lots end on an individual basis.

Peter

[petecld]

Originally Posted by Fballguy

Agree 100%. The most difficult one to navigate. Was engrossed in the bidding options and then realized I was looking at items that don't end for 17 days. What...do they have a dozen auctions a month?

Great stuff...terrible filtering and navigation.

"a dozen auctions a month" Shhhhhhh, don't give them ideas.

We have what we call monthly auctions going year-round. They are call monthly because the bidding period is 30-days. One opens and one closes every Sunday night. So yes, we will have four auctions going at any given time plus the Catalog auctions and Platinum auctions which are four times each year. The main sports page will have large icons for all current (or Open) auctions. Click the graphic, "View Lots" or "Auction Home" buttons and it will take you to the lots for just that auction.

Don't forget any "Coming Soon" icons. As we describe and photograph the lots they will appear in this preview section.

[petecld]

Originally Posted by Fballguy

And what's with posting the last minute reserves (well more like 72 hours...but who's counting). Is that to give the consignor an out without turning off bidders early in the process?

Yes, we post reserves 7 days prior to the ending day of the auction. We do this for transparency. We feel this is far better than hiding them so a bidder will think they won something only to read "Not Sold" when the auction closes. Knowing the reserve allows a bidder to make his/her choice having all the facts. Your only chance of disappointment is that "Outbid Notice."

No, we don't do this to give the consignor an out. Reserves are agreed upon when we take in consignments. Are there exceptions made... yes, but 99.9% of the time reserves are agreed to well in advance. Sometimes reserves are even lowered.

[Snapolit1]

Heritage has amazing auctions, and probably cranks out more stuff every year than any AH on sports collectibles. Always awesome to view their bigger sports auctions and I've been regular customer.

But I understand the sentimental regard most everyone holds for REA and similarly LOTG. Great collectible AHs that aren't national operations, have only sports auctions and sports isn't merely a department in a bigger something, and are run by much a smaller group of dedicated folks. And of course they are both from Joisey.

[Fballguy]

Originally Posted by petecld

Yes, we post reserves 7 days prior to the ending day of the auction. We do this for transparency. We feel this is far better than hiding them so a bidder will think they won something only to read "Not Sold" when the auction closes. Knowing the reserve allows a bidder to make his/her choice having all the facts. Your only chance of disappointment is that "Outbid Notice."

The auctions I'm bidding on end in 3 days and there's a message that says the "reserves (if any) will be posted tonight at 7:00 CST".

[petecld]

Originally Posted by Fballguy

The auctions I'm bidding on end in 3 days and there's a message that says the "reserves (if any) will be posted tonight at 7:00 CST".

Sorry Rob. I found out what you were talking about.

For the catalog auctions - the reserves post 7 days prior to the end of the auction. What I just learned...

For the weekly auctions - the reserves post 3 days before the ending date but 99.999% of the lots in these auctions have no reserves.

[oldjudge]

Another great auction! Congratulations to Chris and Pete.

[ullmandds]

I knew that damn ruth m101-6 was/should be a 40K card...I just sold too soon!!!!!

[tiger8mush]

any great buys (good value) or items that went waaaay above expectations that stick out?

[philliesphan]

I was surprised that the 1914 CJ Grover PSA 7 is a $20k card.

Perhaps not so much in context of other ones that have sold recently, but I was surprised to see that hammer price, for sure

[joshuanip]

Originally Posted by tiger8mush

any great buys (good value) or items that went waaaay above expectations that stick out?

Wow. That Ruth went for a good deal! 384k is a lot but same card sold for 552k a little over a year ago. I guess there is some digestion towards this meteoric rise of his cards, in particular this card. Over the long term the buyer is going to be really happy with his purchase!

Curious if a price premium emerges between the ad backs and blank backs. Seems all of the issues seems to be the blank backs.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by joshuanip

Wow. That Ruth went for a good deal! 384k is a lot but same card sold for 552k a little over a year ago. I guess there is some digestion towards this meteoric rise of his cards, in particular this card. Over the long term the buyer is going to be really happy with his purchase!

Curious if a price premium emerges between the ad backs and blank backs. Seems all of the issues seems to be the blank backs.

Only exponentially, otherwise not that much.

[Sean]

Originally Posted by petecld

This is an easy one. Sports does not do live auctions. We did but that was years ago.

Peter

I remember those live auctions. I won my T206 Plank in one of those. (2006)

[WWG]

Originally Posted by tiger8mush

any great buys (good value) or items that went waaaay above expectations that stick out?

The 1925 Exhibit Gehrig Rookie SGC 4 went for $78k which was double the estimate price. Just last August a higher grade SGC 5 went for about $80k.

[ctownboy]

I imagine Heritage was surprised the Old Judge Frank Dwyer went so high. Their estimate was $400 and up and it sold for over $10K. Obviously Heritage missed (but some bidders didn't) that this card was a Players League card.

From looking at the Old Judge big book, this card seems to be the first one known.

David

[Stampsfan]

Originally Posted by petecld

"a dozen auctions a month" Shhhhhhh, don't give them ideas.

We have what we call monthly auctions going year-round. They are call monthly because the bidding period is 30-days. One opens and one closes every Sunday night. So yes, we will have four auctions going at any given time plus the Catalog auctions and Platinum auctions which are four times each year. The main sports page will have large icons for all current (or Open) auctions. Click the graphic, "View Lots" or "Auction Home" buttons and it will take you to the lots for just that auction.

Don't forget any "Coming Soon" icons. As we describe and photograph the lots they will appear in this preview section.

Originally Posted by petecld

Sorry Rob. I found out what you were talking about.

For the catalog auctions - the reserves post 7 days prior to the end of the auction. What I just learned...

For the weekly auctions - the reserves post 3 days before the ending date but 99.999% of the lots in these auctions have no reserves.

See, it's not that confusing at all. And the rules seem pretty consistent across all Sports auctions.
Ugh.

[pgconboy]

This was my first heritage auction. I think I won 2 lots? I had winning bids last night then they went into some sort of extended auction. Now today they show up as winning bids and amount won. However nothing shows up under my current orders or the invoices tab.

[tiger8mush]

Originally Posted by pgconboy

However nothing shows up under my current orders or the invoices tab.

I believe its a 2-day auction, with more items ending tonight, so invoices likely won't go out till later over the weekend.

[BeanTown]

Originally Posted by oldjudge

Another great auction! Congratulations to Chris and Pete.

Translation... Im really glad to bid on some player league cards that I might need for my collection.

Hi Jay.. Just having some Friday night fun

[petecld]

Originally Posted by tiger8mush

I believe its a 2-day auction, with more items ending tonight, so invoices likely won't go out till later over the weekend.

Rob is correct. The auction ends tonight and invoices will be generated at some point over the weekend.

Peter

[pgconboy]

Thanks Rob and Peter.
I almost tried to win another one, the 1932 Caramel Lefty Grove. 100% will own one in the future but just couldn't quite fall in love with the colors. In the overtime bidding for a last e95.