Legendary Auction -- Josh Gibson Toleteros card

[triwak]

Anybody have a picture of that Josh Gibson postcard?

[dennis]

ken here is link to the gibson pc

http://tinyurl.com/mehrq3

[Potomac Yank]

The 1931 Harrison Studio PC ... hands down.

[bcbgcbrcb]

The Gibson RPPC has sold twice in the past 3 years for over $50K both times. Unfortunately, this makes it out of the reach of probably about 95% of us, including mysef. For non-autograph collectors, the fact that it was also signed by Gibson probably accounts for much of the card's value and makes paying that kind of price very difficult to swallow.

[Potomac Yank]

Originally Posted by bcbgcbrcb

The Gibson RPPC has sold twice in the past 3 years for over $50K both times. Unfortunately, this makes it out of the reach of probably about 95% of us, including mysef. For non-autograph collectors, the fact that it was also signed by Gibson probably accounts for much of the card's value and makes paying that kind of price very difficult to swallow.

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Let's just make a slight adjustment ... let's make that 99%, and that would include me.

Not only that, he signed it twice ... something that couldn't be done with his tribute card.

The tribute card is nice, and a collectable, but it doesn't have the historical vintage baseball connection that an unsigned 1931 Harrison Studio PC would have.
JMVHO.

[turtleguy64]

Peter,the reason a big auction house would not take the trouble to grade a big ticket card is probably due to the philosophy once imparted to me by the infamous Doug Allen: "We didn't grade the better condition cards in your lot because sometimes we get more bidding interest on raw cards." Ah,those old Mastronet days.

[calvindog]

Or if perhaps the big ticket item had glue on the back, got a bad grade, then cracked out and sold raw, then sent to a different grading company which gave it a NM grade.

[Al C.risafulli]

Heh.