LAST DAY FOR BIDDING 2-2-13: Love of the Game Auctions

[Al C.risafulli]

Hi, everyone, and Happy New Year!

I'd like to invite everyone to visit Love of the Game Auctions and check out our Winter, 2013 sale, which has been open for about half an hour now.

We have a large selection of prewar baseball cards and memorabilia this time around, including the entire Rudy Strejc Collection of tobacco cards (including some great E98s and PCL cards), the beginnings of a large collection of T3 Turkey Reds, an E90-1 Joe Jackson, and an 1889 Hartley Studio cabinet of new Hall of Famer Hank O'Day.

We've also got a gorgeous original painting of Nap Lajoie by noted artist Arthur K. Miller, a Sporting Life trade card from the 1886 Akron Acorns (one of the teams at the center of the baseball segregation debate), and a gorgeous 1907 Eastern League composite photo.

Please visit our website and check out the auction - it closes on February 2!

Thanks, and good luck!
-Al

[MVSNYC]

Good Luck, Al! Great auction.

[ethicsprof]

this second auction has been even more phenomenal than the first.
congrats, ole pal.

all the best,
barry

[Bicem]

some great stuff, good luck all.

[E93]

Good luck Al. You have some great stuff in there.
JimB

[bcbgcbrcb]

WOW, the consignor for the '05 Frank Baker postcard just bought it on e-bay a few weeks ago for $265. Already over $1K now (with BP), totally rediculous......

[atx840]

You are becoming very tired ...your eyelids are slowly getting heavier....you are ready to turn of your computer, crawl over to that warm bed and let your mind drift off......

[Griffins]

Happy with my consignments, about 20-30% more than I could've gotten on ebay.
Not happy with a few things I wanted that are going much higher than I'd planned.

[Bosox Blair]

Originally Posted by Griffins

Happy with my consignments, about 20-30% more than I could've gotten on ebay.
Not happy with a few things I wanted that are going much higher than I'd planned.

I was a bidder (not a consignor), but this is what I've been seeing too. I have given up bidding on my lots, but they keep going up. Everything I was following is way over recent VCP at this point...

Cheers,
Blair

[Matthew H]

+1

I can't find a deal on my losing list either.

[Sean]

It's 3:00AM EST and still going. I'm winning one lot, but I don't know how much longer I can wait.

[joeadcock]

Originally Posted by atx840

You are becoming very tired ...your eyelids are slowly getting heavier....you are ready to turn of your computer, crawl over to that warm bed and let your mind drift off......

Thats why I turned my heater on

[atx840]

Great auction again Al, those Cycle460s went strong! Happy for the pickup but went quite a bit more then I was banking on.

[E93]

Great auction Al. My consignment exceeded my hopes for where it would end up.
JimB

[bcbgcbrcb]

Anyone care to fess up that they were the buyer or consignor of the Baker postcard?

[Bicem]

I was neither for the record.

[Jaybird]

Originally Posted by bcbgcbrcb

Anyone care to fess up that they were the buyer or consignor of the Baker postcard?

I was the consignor. I had a considerably larger snipe on ebay and feel the card is worth what was paid in LOTG. How many are out there? No one knows but only 2 (including this example) that I've seen. So you have the earliest card/postcard of Baker with 1 other example known. Doesn't seem crazy to me to pay $1100 for something like that. I think the buyer got a good deal.

I also don't think ebay is the do all end all for judging prices. In most cases, postcards that sell on ebay are BELOW market value. This card is one that transcends just postcard collectors and branches into rookie HOF collectors and HOF collectors in general.

Let me just say that there is a reason I went with Al. He knows his stuff, presents it well. It translates to good prices on those items that might need a little extra care and explanation.

[ullmandds]

nice Jason...I agree!!!!