Local Auctions

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Posted By: Matthew

Just wondering if any of you have ever had any luck at local auctions.
I have several local auctions around me, and I have always wondered if they were worth going to.

Matthew

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Occasionally I find baseball related items at local auctions - usually equipment like bats/gloves and balls, but I did manage to find this in a scrapbook at auction last year.



Sometime in the early 1980s my dad bought these cards at an auction and gave them to me.



Mostly when I see baseball cards listed in an auctionbill I will call or show up and it's all 1980's-shiny era stuff. I drove 50 miles to an auction last year that had 1950's baseball cards in the ad and when I got there it was all 1980s....I asked the auctioneer about the listing and he just shrugged and said the consigner wrote up the bill.

edited to add: I also caught a guy selling fake Sport Kings last year at the weekly consignment auction. I notified the auctioneer that they were fake and he asked me how I could tell...I just told him to smell it and if it smelled like coffee it was a fake. They all had the "reprint" area on the back rubbed off and they all had the "baked in the oven" look. Turns out that the consignee had sold the Cobb to a fellow auction goer before the auction for $400. I also saw a Fro Joy uncut sheet in another local auction and when I notified the auctioneer it was fake he pulled it from the auction.

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Posted By: David Smith

In the last five years here are some things that I can remember being in auctions locally:

Things I have bought:

1933 Goudey common for $10

43 B 18 blankets including Cobb, Johnson, Maranville and a brown infiled variety for $325. Would have been only $100 but some knucklehead decided to bid me up and he didn't know anything about what these were.

Things I have seen or heard about:

An 1898 Cincinnati Reds silver season pass. Was bid up to $4,000 but did not sell

Cameo Pepsin gum McMann with paper insert sold for less than $50 (I would have bought it but didn't know about it until auction was over).

1914 Cracker Jack Joe Jackson sold for $5,000

Numerous cards from the 1950's and 1960's. I called one auction last week about a listing of cards from the 1950's to see if there was anything older and the auctioneer said no. He did say, however, he had an auction last November and another in January that had Cracker Jacks, tobacco cards, Goudey's and Diamond Stars. He is a small time auctioneer in a small town and I never saw the ads. He said he only placed them locally but with this auction, the consigner wanted ads placed in larger newspapers. I just wonder what was sold and for how much??????

David