I actually have something nice to say...
 

About an auction house. I just opened a package from Legendary and found their August private sale catalog for the E107 near set. Beautiful catalog and one of the only ones in a long time that I'm keeping for my reference library. Nicely done!

Did you keep the REA catalog too?

I got one today also. High quality photos. Only complaint is the photos getting partially lost in the binding of the catalog.

are there prices?

No prices, you need to call Doug Allen to get it. I think they're trying to sell the entire set as one lot w/o breaking it up, so there is no question that the price is going to be huge. There's Mathewson, Wagner, Young, practically all of the big cards. Crazy set. Any opinions on where this ranks in terms of the most valuable sets ever? (I'm sure a complete T206 set w/ Wagner, Doyle, and Plank would probably be worth more, however.)

which is really insane if you think about it

+1

I got mine today too, and it's really nice to see all the E107's pictured together. I'm sure there are quite a few I've never seen before.

"I got one today also. High quality photos. Only complaint is the photos getting partially lost in the binding of the catalog."


Not sure what happened with your book. My book has all the images well clear of the staples; all images are sharp and beautiful. Hats off to Legendary for doing a great job!

copies of the book to be had
 

Doug just called me and said if anyone wants one of these E107 books for themselves, and they might not get a catalog otherwise, just drop him an email at

dallen@legendaryauctions.com


and he will have one sent out for you. best regards

I should have put the E107 book is fine, couldn't be any better quality. It was the auction book that some of the photos were getting lost in the binding. No big deal, I don't really think anything could have been done except to shrink the photos to fit on single pages but then the close-up details would be lost.

The E107 book is a great reference for the set. Hopefully if the set sells to one person, it's not kept a secret what it sold for.

Wow, I'm blown away by that set. I've never seen most of the cards in the catalog... Great job Legendary!

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it is absolutely gorgeous!
definitely a keeper for the library.
well done, doug et al
best,
barry

ps amazing to see the psa 7 and some 6s!

Let's play the hi/lo game on the price of the set - over or under $750K?

I'm curious about the importance of having such a book with lengthy write-ups of individual cards for a private sale of a full set. Since each card is not being sold individually is the catalog going to make any difference (say as opposed to adding two pages up front in the other catalog)? It's certainly a great reference for the issue though.

It has to be over....the Wagner and Young must be in the 75 to 100k range each, don't they?

I just noticed the Doug Allen write-up in the beginning of the book refers to it as a "seven-figure set", so I guess that answers my question....

Matt, I wondered the same thing, but I think it might be more of a marketing opportunity for Legendary to send the catalog out to everyone. A lot of people will end up saving the catalog because of the unique opportunity to see the set mostly together, and whenever they pick up the catalog, there's the Legendary name front and center.

Not much on the web about these yet. Beautiful cards.

http://i.imgur.com/99pfi.jpg

Way over 750k way over way way over.....

completely agree

Unbelievable collection!
JimB

+2

For 750K they'll let you hold it for an hour or two....

Because they're rarer? Or because people like to collect black and white pictures of men in street clothes?

;)

Toning on verso
 

Did anyone else notice that the Chance, Clark, Joss, Matthewson, McGraw, Plank, and Wagner all exhibit the exact same toning pattern on the reverse of the cards? Most of the verso's were not shown, but I wonder how many others cards in the Sullivan collection exhibit the same pattern?

My guess is that some of these E107s came out of an album that had corner holders similar to the ones many postcards have. In any event whoever this early collector was, he had a fabulous collection!

Jeff

E107
 

For $750K, you might get the Wagner & Mathewson.

I'm thinking the price tag is closer to $1.8 to $2 million.

Great catalog, it will be in my reference library forever.

Tony

To recap, T206Collector doesn't understand why people think the E107 issue should be worth more then a T206 set and E107Collector thinks the catalog is fantastic. Surprising.

Hilarious!

just opened mine, incredible catalog.

would be more "fun" if they broke the set and sold individually, like SCP did with the T206 Harris Collection. would get more people involved, create a bigger buzz, and possibly sell for more in the end, no?

Probably for less Michael. It takes an incredible amount of time and work to assemble such a big collection, so the "sweat equity" is almost certainly built into the price.

E107
 

Good stuff Matt.

Tony

ha, exactly, and the fact that they are not cartoons of players. ;)

Sorry if I missed this, but are these going to be on display at the National? I would love to see these in person.

National
 

Chris, Legendary will have them on display at the National. I think it's probably the big attraction this year.

Tony

Great! Between the E107s and the Black Swamp Find this should be one of the most exciting National's ever for us cardboard lovers.

Isn't Heritage displaying the E98 find too?

Maybe Legendary Auctions will produce a reprint set of these with their company logo, contacts, auction schedule on the back, etc,...

I can't wait to see them in Baltimore.

Thanks for handling.

I hope the new owner won't break up this partial set. It is an ultra tough project putting this set together even in this "partial" stage.

Ultra tough might be an understatement, this is the second largest collection of E107's ever put together. I would say it could never be duplicated, no matter how long you took or how much money you had to spend. If in fact anyone wanted to have a near set of E107's, this is probably their only opportunity.

On another note, a poster above noted the toning on several cards. Most E107's can be attributed to 4 different groups of original cards that were original old time collections.

Scott

Scott- aren't the toned ones from the group that Sotheby's had about 8-10 years ago, that came out of a notebook? I remember being sent there by a bunch of E107 collectors to bid for them.:)

Just got the cataloque myself... it's great to be able to see so many E107's in one shot... I hope who ever ends up with it keeps them together too.

Ricky Y

No, these came from an earlier sale when Chris bought the bulk of his set.

The 2005 Sotheby's had some back disturbance from the scrapbook, thus the SGC 10-30 grades. I bought 3 of the 4 "commons lots", Chris got the other one in that particular auction.

Thanks Scott. I do remember the back problems on that group.

I never knew there was an action pose in the set (Carr). There are a couple of "drawing" types that match the styling but Carr appears to be the only action shot.

Thanks Leon
 

Sent him an email this afternoon, received a reply a while later letting me know it was on the way. Can't wait to see it.
Thanks again Leon !

+1

The catalog is wonderful! Great addition to my library. I have been wondering if any one on the board has any of the missing cards?

Thanks Doug!

The Chris Sullivan E107 Collection
 

Sick!!!

I have owned two E107's in my life...sold my Bender last year to another Net54 board member (kinda sad I did, though, since I think it was nicer than the Bender in the catalogue - although technically the same grade at SGC 10).

I just got my McGinnity graded about a month ago, so the catalogue you all received is already out-dated and needs revision since it said that only 6 examples exist in the combined PSA/SGC pop reports. That should now say 7!! I hope that "misprint" doesn't influence the price of the set going to $2mm instead of $1.995mm.

Incredible reference document though! So exciting! I hope the new owner continues the journey and does not break up the collection (no matter how much I'd love to buy some of those cards individually)!!

Seems like the going price is somewhere between 1.25m and 1.75m......where's that checkbook again? :)

in almost every instance the total worth of a set is the sum of its parts. sweat equity doesnt equate to an extra bump in the price no matter how long it took to put the set together. that's why these sets usually end up being broken apart. people don't care how much time you put into putting it together. that was your non financial investment. they look at a price guide and rarity and go from there. whether you had to climb a himilayan mountain to find the cards in the first place doesnt matter to them because they are here now and not on the mountain top anymore.

This set is different. This set is actually worth more than the sum of it's parts. It would be virtually impossible to assemble it from scratch today without one of the other 2-3 very large collections of them coming to market.....and the 3 I know of won't be. This set will not be sold for what each card would bring at auction. It will sell based on what it is and stands for.

"[A]lmost" is the key word here. For extremely difficult sets, a premium is attached to the value. The seller can basically say, "Take it or leave it." It is not going to be found anywhere else.
JimB

Yeah - that line would have a lot more force if it wasn't trotted out by weekend warriors referring to '68 Mantles with rounded corners, creases, and HI Beckett pricetags...LOL! :D

Seriously though, this E107 set is one of those (properly) rare cases where the line quoted above has real meaning.

Cheers,
Blair

I doubt this set will ever have more value broken apart. I'm assuming it will always remain together minus a few possible upgrades.