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Shit's getting real! We're in extended bidding...I'm seeing all kinds of record prices...green cobbs, exhibit ruths...dietsch cobb fielding...good luck peoples!

Yea good luck to all.

Great stuff in this auction

Sadly I am sitting out and just a bystander

Some awesome stuff in this one!

New money has found pre war.

Nice to see the Dietsche Cobb Fielding finally getting the love it deserves (I am not outing the auction considering its at a record high)!

Even the M101-1 Wagner getting its due. Near $40k as of now. And a 15 CJ Jackson in a 3 at $47k. Not too surprising but the 15 has greatly lagged the 14’s for a while (with reason).

Very happy to have won this 1949 Dodgers picture pack uncut sheet

Was bidding on many lots, but most got too high for me. Some strong prices for sure!
I picked up a couple T206 Cobb's though, so I'm happy! :)

The Boston Store Jackson has been fun to watch, very much still in play, it has gone from 22k to 34k in the hour since the auction went to lot-by-lot closing. It's one of the last 20 or so lots still open.

EDIT: and now $35k. Two motivated buyers :)

EDIT 2: I just noticed that the 1915 Boston Red Sox Real-Photo Postcard with Ruth has gone from $12k to $39k in that same time frame!

I know - right? Those T206 lots sold for collector prices. The T202 lot exploded as well late in extended bidding...

Maybe someone can help me here.

I went to register to bid at REA and it requires two industry references. I don't know anyone in the industry. I'm just a lone wolf out here building my own collection because I enjoy this hobby. Am I just out of luck?

Industry references can be any auction you've bought from, or Net54, nationally known dealer or well-known collector you've done business with. Even a prominent facebook group is better than nothing

Great night for vintage. Cobbs were on fire - even the non rookies like the azora. The m101 Wagner was a thing of beauty.

The auction was so strong that some of the prices seem like pure outliers. A 48 leaf Jackie psa 2 sold for over 22k. A very nice 2 but still that’s basically double where that’s been going. I don’t think that would happen anywhere else.

Agreed strong prices and amazed the quick spike on many items that seemed to be trending low and then jumped dramatically

Thank you.

Very strong price, I'd be very curious to see how SGC came up with the 1915 date (considering they misidentified half the players). 1915-17 would have been more appropriate.

Agreed but still a great card would love to have had it in my collection. But since I was a spectator this go around there was never a chance. :D

Won the 1927 E210 Ruth. Happy to get another nice rare Ruth in my collection.


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I was lucky enough to grab one minor lot at a price I was happy with, but like most of the comments so far in this thread menation, the prices were strong last night.

I posted an ad in the BST as well, but if anyone on the forum here won lot 255 1910 T210 Old Mill Tobacco "Series 3" Texas League Collection (13), I am interested in three of the cards from that lot. PM me if you would like to discuss.

That 1915-17 Ruth PC was awesome (if you can get over the terrible cut border, which I could not). The price on that, as well as the 1922 Ruth PC and Ruth Exhibits, were, I think, super strong. Indeed, almost everything I was watching finished ahead of how I had it valued- but that seems to be par for the course nowadays.

That said, I was very content with the prices I got these for (I know, pot calling the kettle black to knock the cut on the Ruth PC but then happy to get this beater Morehouse Thorpe). They go well with the blank back Thorpe I picked up in Memory Lane.

The (perhaps only) steal of the auction was the t206 Tinker Bat Off, Piedmont factory 42. It is an impossible combo. There are only 3 known, this one being new to me, and by far the highest grades. An A with no borders sold at auction for almost the same thing over a year ago. Congrats Chris, great acquisition.

I thought this was a great auction and I was very happy to see REA (once again) auctioning a bunch of rare, old stuff.

Can anyone explain this one to me??? $8,400 for this Waddell with a normal Old Mill back. That seems insane to me unless I'm missing something.
https://bid.robertedwardauctions.com...e?itemid=93493

I dont understand it either. A PSA 3 example sold in Memory Lane in September with a hammer of $9,532.80

I think Phil hit it on the nose: new money, or maybe profits on new stuff that old money sold. I dunno, but those prices were amazing. A PSA 2 T206 Johnson portrait for $3k! That PC Back Ruth at $30K--holy cow.

I was blown away on every lot before OT. My OT bids were topped almost instantly. I was getting bid confirms, high bidder notices, and outbid notices in the same flurries of emails. I did manage to get one card, not a bargain but a good long term pickup that melds my two interests perfectly:

https://createauctioncdn.azureedge.n...0_1_214269.jpg

Old Mills are odd. In general, they are not a particularly rare back -- on par with Sovereign and Polar, more rare than Piedmont and Sweet Caporal, but much more common than EPDG, Tolstoi, American Beauty. That said, some players are very difficult to find in Old Mill backs (see Magee and Walter Johnson portrait). Waddell portrait is on the tougher side. So, this card appeals to anyone who wants a rarer-back Waddell or anyone collecting an old mill back set. You will see Old Mills go for seemingly crazy prices sometimes and its almost always a player with few old mills examples.

Congrats Adam - that is a perfect card for you: Boxing + Ruth.

I was lucky enough to win this Sovereign Waddell Port for what I thought was a pretty fair price. Was quite surprised I didn’t wake up to an outbid notice text.

https://bid.robertedwardauctions.com...e?itemid=93492

All the prices were really strong

Congrats on the pickups Ryan
And Phil bother great pickup

Congrats to all

I agree with Phil about some new money involved. Certainly some crazy prices last night. Most of the cards I was looking at were way above what I was comfortable bidding prior to extended bidding. I was able to pick up a 1914 CJ Cobb finally (SGC A). Not as nice as the PSA 1 on there but thought it was a fair price. Definitely was a beneficiary of there being multiple CJ Cobb copies.

Chad

Congrats guys (Ryan, love the Thorpes!).

I was happy to win the Lajoie Hindu; goes great with my other HOF Hindus.

Me too but still misleading.

Hi folks, I did not bid on REA, but i spent a bunch on the Heritage auction a couple weeks ago....I can't speak for the general market, but personally I have transferred a lot of new product profits into vintage, primarily t206/t205. and will continue to do so. I would have liked to have landed a few of the t206 lots, but was asleep at the wheel, so to speak.

Thank you Ryan ;)

Great cards everyone, some very strong prices.

Mike, fantastic Hindus, congrats!

I was in on that LaJoie Hindu also, was thinking about going one increment higher but held back. Great card kinda wished I had stepped up. Congrats.

I am simply blown away by the prices.

The price on the blank backed 1926-29 Ruth Exhibits was insane. I thought the price was already crazy when it was $14K before extended bidding, and then the price doubled! I get that blanked backed are much tougher than the postcard-backed and this was the best looking one out there, but $30K, really? I really hope that this is not the new normal, and just an outlier because the card was blank backed. Otherwise, it'll be a really hard to pick up more of these cards.

I was the 1st or 2nd underbidder on the c1915 and 1922 Ruth cards. I tried hard, but obviously someone wanted it more. Both of those cards only have a known pop of 1 or 2 with a unique Ruth image, I believe, so I understand the price there better (obviously).

Nice get!!! I bid on this one but fell asleep.

Thanks Brian! I threw a little extra on it and then went to bed myself. Was pleasantly surprised when I woke up today.

That's not even the highest graded example of a batting Ruth (SGC shows a 6 in its pop report).

I don't think anyone except the real nuts (like me) care about the backs on these cards. It was a crazy result but maybe not that crazy when beater 1933G Ruth cards are over $5K with a much larger pop. The more interesting numbers to me show strength across the Exhibit realm:

--1921 Walter Johnson 4.5 $1,680.00
--$12,600 for the PSA 2 (but great eye appeal) 1921 Ruth
--$6,600 for the PSA 3 1928 Ruth
--$3,270 for a group of 183 postwar Exhibit cards with Mantle, Paige and Robinson (2) and even those three were not in stellar condition: Mantle/first name outlined in white (Ex), Paige (marked on reverse, otherwise Ex), two J. Robinson (Vg-Ex+ and Vg).

The unopened was crazy. $11,400 for 19 cello packs and $1,500 for a cello with Mantle on top. I really wish I'd held onto the packs I busted 20 years ago...

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I thought it was interesting that the 1951 type 1 Mantle photo brought more money than a 1952 Topps Mantle in a PSA VG EX 4 holder. Pretty cool photo.

Prices were breath-taking!

If anyone here won the T210-6 lot I am interested in acquiring some cards.

Many thanks,
Mike

$168K for a '54 Topps pack blew me away. That was $3500 just a few years ago.

Same here! I was the 2nd (or 3rd) underbidder, but am interested in one card in particular if you are breaking them up.

I was glad to pick up 2 minor lots that I wanted for my collection, a lil more than I wanted to pay but it's REA and id been hunting for a while so didnt mind.

And as stated elsewhere, if anyone won the t210-2 lot id be interested in buying the 3 Richmond Colts cards off of you!

This auction makes you wonder what will prices be when spring time rolls around and we are at the traditional height of craziness about April or so.

Blown away- on something i particulary think maybe 2-3 people even collect.(that i know of)
1916-20 UNC Big Head COBB went for (6600)---extreme scarcity!!
Last Heritage auction--was very strong!!
Wajo fetch (2640BP) & Ruth got (9900BP)
and the set of 15/20 (w/Hornsby) went for (3840BP)

I ended up winning 3 different tickets focused on Pittsburgh. Prices were very strong for those as well. If prices continue like this through 2022, I will probably have to shift focus or slow down a bit. Tickets are approaching stratospheric levels. :)

I was actually surprised by the prices of a few key cards that seemed pretty weak to me, in particular the 1933 Goudey Ruths - especially the two PSA 7s, and the 1951 Bowman Mantle rookies (it seems like the price ratio of Mantle to Mays these days is now below 2:1).

I picked up two non-sports sets for fair prices.
My big get was this M110 of Lajoie.

Sure wish I hadn't opened mine. :D

There were definitely some weird prices.

A '55 Topps Mays SGC 6 for $4,400????
https://bid.robertedwardauctions.com...e?itemid=94057

This is is almost double the highest (in March 2021) shown for a PSA 6 on the PSA website:
https://www.psacard.com/auctionprice...ues/179831#g=6

Meanwhile, a PSA 5 of the same card sold for $840:
https://bid.robertedwardauctions.com...e?itemid=94056

I thought that the 11 (yes there were 11) Clemente rookies kind of cannibalized each other, especially in the low grades. An SGC 1.5 sold for only $990. I sold an SGC 1.5 on ebay for $1150 about an hour after I posted it a month ago.
https://bid.robertedwardauctions.com...e?itemid=94053

I would not have been pleased to have my Clemente rookie up against 10 others.