Woowee! Show us your Christie's wins
 

Loved this Smokey Joe Wood cabinet but got blown out of the water. What did you get so far?

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Shut out thus far, but I went hard on that lemon peel ball found at Shiloh. What an amazing piece! Congrats to the winner!

I was underbidder!!! Beautiful photo David and a perfect fit next to your kreindler. :)

I won this Chief Bender PT TYPE 1 photo to go with my Matty and Cy young Paul Thompsons used for t205 cards.

I won 2 lots:

1) Alejandro Oms Signed Passport Page

2) 3 - Perucho Cepeda contracts

Having trouble loading a picture of the contracts, but think I did ok on the passport and very well on the contracts.

Blown out on all 3 lots I bid on, and I went strong.......:eek::eek:

David, that Is gorgeous!!!

David, Nice!
you already have the exact piece that Graig painted for you.

Congrats McD. Must feel nice to have finally landed it.

I lost out on a few of the Negro Leagues contracts; many of the contracts seemed a bit undervalued.

This very same Horner Wood sans NE corner was auctioned by Mastro in 2007. I was the underbidder. Always regretted not going harder and was pleased to get another shot at it. I don't think one can look up Mastro "prices realized" anywhere but I recall it went for a lot more in 2007. Thank you, Ben, for helping to make that so by letting the clock run out. I had a max bid placed that I really didn't want to fall back on.

It went to the right home. Although, I was sooooo close to hitting the next bid again. :) absolulutely stunning photo. congrats!

Agreed. I think in some cases it wasn't immediately obvious that the listings were for more than 1 item. I just realized now (after the fact) that the Willard Brown listing was for 2 contracts and Leon Day was for 3. (I probably should have picked up on it when I bid on the Pedro Cepeda's, but somehow didn't.

I don't know if others may have similarly overlooked them.

David amazing Smoky Joe cabinet and glad you won it. I laugh now that I thought maybe my $2500 bid would win it. Do you remember what it went for in 2007?

I love that Smokey Joe! Sounds like we were all bidding on that one!!:D

Glad I gave up on that one though or I couldn't have afforded this guy!

$6,355

Does anyone know how to print the pictures from the christies site? I am unable to do so. Thanks.

Beautiful David! Congratulations!

That is a great pickup David!!

I couldn't do it either so I just took a bad picture!:D

Paul

Killer SJJ!!!!!!

other Paul

Thrilled that you got that, David.

I was chasing the Temple Cup print for a while, but chickened out late. More stuff tomorrow.

-Al

Legendary Auctions Sold on Apr 27, 2007
$6,355.00 Price Realized (Includes Buyers Premium)

Open the large image on your screen, hit the print screen key on your keyboard, then open up Paint, a graphics program, Word, something, and hit control v to paste the image.

Shocker, lol.

Pretty cool.... some great upside if he makes it into the HOF one day... regardless, pretty cool piece

Thanks Paul!!

Other Paul

Thanks! The feeling I'm getting today is that barring something changing, it doesn't sound like they are expecting to many new Negro League additions to the HOF, but it would be cool obviously.

Here is a picture of one of the contracts

Amazing wins, guys! Congrats!

I definitely agree that the descriptions could have been better - you really had to dig to find out the particulars for each listing! The Willard Brown contracts were pretty neat in that one had his fingerprint too. The Ray Brown contract was quite rare - I'm surprised it didn't go for more since one went for $12,000+ at REA about 10 years ago.

I was able to get several, but only expect to hold onto one:

The circa 1910 Art Devlin/Harry Lord/Bill Carrigan letters:

http://i792.photobucket.com/albums/y...psgyf0ajid.jpg

http://i792.photobucket.com/albums/y...ps3crpsjal.jpg




The 1901 Pirates contract signed by Harry Pulliam:

http://i792.photobucket.com/albums/y...ps3wqizaxp.jpg




The Ray Dandridge Cuban League contract:

http://i792.photobucket.com/albums/y...psenzfhinm.jpg




And a new centerpiece to my collection, the Lizzie Arlington (Stride) signed contract (also with super early Ed Barrow):

http://i792.photobucket.com/albums/y...pskmro9f85.jpg

Tom C

Those are amazing! I hadn't heard of Pulliam before but a quick reading introduced me. And the Lizzie Stride piece is awesome!

I was thinking of going after the letters since I have the Walter Johnson letter from the same episode, but ultimately felt I'd rather focus on other pieces.

I was able to get the Armando Marsans 1916 American League Contract which also has the autograph of Branch Rickey.

Congrats guys...David, SO glad you got your Smoky! I thought of you as soon as I saw it, and was hoping you'd win it. Nice!

I'm very excited to have won my first Horner Cabinet- Bowerman. The image was used for his T206 card. Man, that was an intense auction close; juggling all of the bidding (on 7 of them), and the way they close their auctions, well, it's just not great.

Thanks, Michael. A pickup ten years in the making.
Great pickup on the Frank Bowerman, one of the fabulous Horner cabinets in the auction.
Christies' format was like trying to drive on the wrong side of a bumpy road. Really had to work to keep up with my bids.

Michael and David, great Horner cabinets!

I won the 1860 Base Ball Players Pocket Companion. I'm a book guy, and this auction had some really rare ones, including ones that used to be in my collection.

Temple Cup
 

Sorry Al,

I won two singles of the Horner's and two group lots. If anyone won other group lots and have ones they don't want or need I will be happy to buy them.

Thank you.

Tommy Leach

Bob, nice pick up. I was the under bidder on the Temple Cup print.

Missing out on the Temple Cup print, I was able to snag these two gems. Now, I just have to deal with the nearly $1,400 in shipping costs. I may be taking an unexpected trip to NYC if the UPS store shipping isn't much cheaper.

Nice to see you back in the game, Barry.

Happy to help. I should have mentioned that the photo editing programs will also allow you to crop the screen shot down to just the relevant auction details or to only the photo (the more of your screen the image fills up when you "print screen" the better the image will be). You can crop in Word too by left clicking the image once, then right click, choose the crop icon, and drag the corners of the image to the size you want.

Also - great items! I am loving all of these Horner cabinets. I need to pick one of those up some day.

Joe Jackson semi pro
 

Man oh man I was drooling over this one. Congrats to the winner. $15k sounds good when you compare to the Carolina Spinners going for $37k.

Greenville Spinners was his first professional team and a much nicer photo
He is also buried in Greenville. VM photo is great also
Wonder why those two reappeared in this auction when they were " sold" last October?

Same with the 1909 Philadelphia photo (who won it??) being relisted.

Think the same guy went after the key Jackson pieces last year and didn't pay.

Would be proud to own any of the three photos.

Another pickup and now I'm done. Kind of a cockamamy auction for those of us used to the usual AHs but no denying that there were some fabulous goodies to drool over and maybe take a shot at.

The Mills photo is awesome, but I liked the Spinners cabinet much more also. As Craig said, the Spinners were Jackson's first professional team (Class D, I believe) which is super important to many, including me. I also believe that that was where he earned his nickname.

So if you use their in house shipping you don't have to pay NY sales tax. If you pick up or use a third party shipper, you have to pay NY sales tax.

Gah?

Tom C

It all depends on where possession of the purchase take place to determine is sales tax is charged. Since a third party shipper is taking possession of those items from Christies in NYC they have to charge sales tax on those items.

Christies was going to charge right at $1,400 to ship but I was able to get the UPS Store on 82 Nassau Street in NYC to pick up, package and ship to me with $5k insurance for $312.05. Yes, I had to pay the $188 sales tax but after it's all said and done I still saved $900 using a third party shipper.


The UPS store # is 212-406-9010 if anyone wants to use them to ship.

Just dipping a toe in the water Gary.:)

By the way, have you had the Ross Barnes ceremony yet?

As with many other national and international AH's they charge sales tax to more than just NY, so you may want to check to see how that affects you as well. Sometimes you will pay the sales tax either way.

For me Christie's shipping is $526.96 or the sales tax is $521.41.

I'm screwed either way.

Tom C

last auction I had my niece who's attending college in NYC pick up for me and ship to CA. Didn't pay tax or the outrageous shipping charges. Hoping to do the same this time around.

Wouldn't there have been taxes?

Not sure I understand either. Would like to know more.

Tom c

1913 giants vs white sox
 

I was on an airline flight and missed the one lot that I wanted the most. If anybody here won the Giants vs White Sox and wants to make a quick dollar or two, please let me know, thanks

I told them I was a CA resident and that I would be picking up the items. They sent me both a credit card auth form and another that allowed my niece to pick up the items. She shipped them to me at a fraction of a fraction of the price they wanted to charge. Btw I just looked at my shipping charge and they want $1471 this time around! insane

1912 La Azora Cobb back in me casa
 

Happy to get this beauty back...

Nuf Ced will be thrilled to reunite with a couple of other items of his in my collection.....

Scott- congrats, I was looking at that Nuf Ced piece in person, it's stunning.

AJ- congrats, as you the first person I've ever heard of to be able to have an item picked up and not pay tax.

Very nice, I was the under-bidder on that item. Hopefully you'll flip it in the not-so-distant future!

Very nice, Scott. Congrats!

Thanks to both of you! Very happy about the Nuf Ced cabinet - there was a corner chunk about 1" missing from the lower left (they sent a pic to me), but it displayed great and I certainly wanted to have it.

Mike - glad to hear you saw it in person and it looked very nice!

EJ - appreciate you not bidding any more against me (although would've appreciated it more a few bids earlier :)) Wasn't really sure how high I was going, so I'm glad I didn't have to test any limits.

I have a few other nice Nuf Ced items that are among my favorites in my collection, and these will go well together, so I can't imagine selling any time soon.....

Yeah I guess I could have got lucky last time around. I remember having to call them to work it out. It makes sense though that if I don't have to pay tax if they ship, why should I have to pay tax if I have someone else do the shipping? If a non NY resident picks up the items in person to ship why would they have to pay tax? Anyway will try it again this time around and see what happens. It's $721 in taxes and $1400 for shipping. yikes.

After getting blown out of the water for a couple other items, I fell in love with both of these Old Timers' Game panorama's. So many great players together from different eras including Cobb, Speaker, Young, Bresnahan, Hooper, Baker, Collins! Are you kidding me?! Plus both are framed which is about $1000-$1500 each. Can't wait to hang em up!

Also won these Ruth photos. I plan on keeping the spring training photos but selling the rest. Let me know if anyone is interested.

AJ comes back on day 2 with a vengeance!

Great pickups!

From my invoice from the auction...
"If a buyer takes delivery in any of the following states, Christie's must collect any applicable state or local sales or use tax before property is shipped: New York, Florida, Texas, California, Illinois and Rhode Island."

On a separate note, I don't collect pictures, but those Ruth shots are amazing!

Great pickups AJ!! Amazing stuff!!

Thanks Jeff, Jeff L and Paul!

Jeff L just reading that myself on the website. Looks like I'm paying NYC tax.

The auction ended during the day !

Looks like a bunch of nice additions to Net54 collections. I managed to snag a couple of photos that fit nicely into my 19th C. collection. 1887 Detroit & a cool Deacon White.

How ludicrous!! Everyone knows the big spenders only bid at 3:00 AM central.

I might have to do that too. They want to charge me over $1300 for shipping, $185 for insurance and $1600 for sales tax. That is crazy. I can ship my car overseas for cheaper than the shipping. Do you have a contact at that UPS location?

There were so many others I wanted!!! Kid in a Candy Store. I was lucky to get these

Kevin,

I dealt with Kershelle at the UPS store. Unfortunately, with your situation it would be cheaper for them to ship to you directly and save the $115 not paying sales tax.

I completely understand the high shipping cost when dealing with priceless pieces of art but to charge $147 which doesn't even include insurance to ship a 1911 Chicago Cubs season pass which is the size of a credit card is crazy. It could be shipped in the most protective way possible and sent overnight with insurance for a 1/4 of the price they were charging me.

Its such a racket! When I talked to them they couldn't give me a answer why shipping is so high. hahaha.. Im more inclined to paying the higher amount in NY taxes to go to the state over giving this auction house any more of my money. Now we are getting into a principle matter for me haha

I figured shipping charges & the buyer's premium into my bids.

I was thrilled add this postcard size snapshot of Matty during Spring Training in Texas!

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I also added to my Bender collection with this photo from one of the Paul Thompson lots. The one on the left is the Christies image, the one on the right the Lelands image of the exact same photo from a decade ago. I noticed this image quality discrepancy on the other photos in my lot and in several other lots. As a buyer I didn't mind so much as it might have suppressed the bids of others, but as a the consignor I would not be so thrilled!

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I bought my Thompson lot for the Bender, so if anyone is interested in the Chance, Marquard, Vance or Cicotte from that lot PM with your interest.

Great stuff Kevin! I was bidding on all 3 of those. Congrats!

[QUOTE=T206Jim;1694392]I was thrilled add this postcard size snapshot of Matty during Spring Training in Texas!

Love that Matty Jim!!