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Something new to talk about - Vintage cards W553 steal!
Posted By: dan mckee
I had a $1500 snipe but 2 others saw this treasure. It looks like W553's in their original strips still!! Very very cool and I should have gone higher!! Ugh!
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Something new to talk about - Vintage cards W553 steal!
Posted By: Al C.risafulli
It's funny, Dan - I was watching that item and it was hovering at $80 yesterday. I did not notice the W553s, but didn't put in a snipe. When I saw the ending price this morning, I clicked the link to see what I missed, and all the photos were gone. I figured I must have missed something inside the book, but since the photos were gone this morning I couldn't look. |
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Something new to talk about - Vintage cards W553 steal!
Posted By: peter ullman
i'm not familiar w/w553's...anyone have a pic to post? |
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Something new to talk about - Vintage cards W553 steal!
Posted By: Steve
Nice item, back in the day that was a favorite pastime for people to do. |
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Something new to talk about - Vintage cards W553 steal!
Posted By: dan mckee
well turds! he took the photos down. There were 4 or 5 ina a strip top to bottom on both the left and right side of a page and Gehrig and Ruth together in the middle. They looked sharp so some grading fanatic will probably score big on them. I have never seen these in their strip form before, it will be a shame to cut them down. Visit www.oldcardboard.com to see a picture of one. Dan. |
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Something new to talk about - Vintage cards W553 steal!
Posted By: Jon Canfield
Dan - I had on it my watch list as well and thought I would get it for a snipe of $710. Needless to say, my snipe never got placed! |
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Something new to talk about - Vintage cards W553 steal!
Posted By: Iggy
Hello Dan, I'm not a grading fanatic nor a turd (since I'm assuming you mean everybody else on this thread). I would not have the heart to cut them, so don't worry about that. Now, if I had found them in 1929....that is a different story.... I would have cut them into individual strips in a heart beat and sent them off to SGC for grading. But alas, it is not 1929 anymore... |
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Something new to talk about - Vintage cards W553 steal!
Posted By: dan mckee
Congrats Iggy, can you post the scan of them if you have it? Or when you get them. Would a $2K snipe have made a difference? That is what I was originally going to do. And wait a minute, I didn't call anyone a turd, I just yelled the word turds! cause the pictures were down. Glad you won't be cutting them, thanks Dan. |
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Something new to talk about - Vintage cards W553 steal!
Posted By: Iggy
$2K would have blown me away. I'm a small fish in a shark invested pond that somehow got lucky. My top bid was $1850. I will post a pic once I get them. By the way, the seller was also blown away. He was thinking the scrapbook would sell for $100, perhaps $150 on a good day. I got the impression he thought I was nuts. |
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Something new to talk about - Vintage cards W553 steal!
Posted By: dan mckee
Iggy, we are both nuts and $2K was out of my range as well, I was just curious! Great score and I am very glad it went to someone that will appreciate it and not a slabhead. Dan. |
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Something new to talk about - Vintage cards W553 steal!
Posted By: Iggy...
By the way, here is how I arrived at the $1850 figure. I normally use very conservative numbers (or at least I always convince myself that I do...) but this was my reasoning for the bid. In the pictures that were shown, you had ten W553 (all ten hall-of-famers and they appeared in great shape (cross my fingers), in addition another pic had six Goudey cards but five of them were HOF (Lazzeri, Pennock, P Waner, (Lefty) O'Doul, and Frisch) |
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