REA - anyone else feel left out
 

So the auction has amazing items and is well organized with great photos and write ups. But it's 2800 lots and as a Cuban/Latin collector it offers 3 lots and nothing particularly interesting.

So let's here from others who can appreciate its overall greatness but really doesn't have a personal interest - i.e. It's great but what other things should it offer

It is a great auction for sure, only things I wish it had more variety was in 19th century boxing and non sports.

I know how you guys feel. There is some great 19th century stuff, just nothing that fits me. BTW Mark, there are some rare Australian Old Judge boxing cards.

I just wish it had more T206s. :D

Same here. 2800 items, most of which are fantastic, but not a single piece I need for my collection. My wallet is very happy though.

I feel left out because of the autobid skip system. It's a terrible system for online auctions.

Been debating on them Jay. Not sure what I'm going to chase just yet.

I wish I had more money!

Have 11 bids down and losing all of them. I like where I am sitting. Like a long horse racing. Just getting into position to make a move around the far turn. In 3 weeks.

It's fun bidding on items early. You know you will never win them and you can always say you bid on a Ruth Rookie Card or Wagner etc.

100% agreed.

Could use a few more W600's.

I only bid on three items and there is only one that I really want as the other two would be placeholders until a better conditioned card came along.

I wish there were more rare Cobb postcards and ones I needed.

I'm definitely in the opposite camp. I feel like someone went through my collection, found everything I need, and consigned all the holes in my sets with the highest graded examples of each. Just to tease me since I can't buy it all. Frustrating, but I will be happy if I can get even one lot.

I wish I had consigned some of my higher-grade, rarer back t206s (see BST), bc the t206 selection is not robust (save a ton of cobbs), but otherwise, I think the offering is totally awesome and there are many things I have bid on and more that I wouid like to own.

No giant non-sports collection this time, no T51s, and a partial set (15/25) of T6 Murad College cabinets that all seem to have pinholes. I'll have to do some more digging to find stuff to bid on.

Yet again no Big Eaters!
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Wish there were more rarebacks, but there is a lot of stuff I want

I noticed that, too. Also, no Red Sun. I am sure there is much more, but for me, thank the lord, there is already system overload! :)

Very light on the PCL stuff for sure (only a few Zeenut cards), still there is enough other stuff to keep me busy. Always a fun auction.

There are a whole lot of D310s.

I like that there are a lot of D381s.

I could use a few more Hamiltons...and Benjamins for that matter.

Rhett-

I kind of have the feeling that one or two old time collectors inserted a bunch fo Zees into the hobby a few years back, they were quickly gobbled up, and there just isn't that much new or interesting coming to the hobby for PCL collectors.

The McMullen Zeenut is an interesting one - and ±2 years before the 100 year anniversary of the Black Sox.

But I'd love to be surprised by the auction houses one day. See something crazy. Like a 1918 Lefty O'Doul or something.

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Me too:)

Me too. I love the look of those!!

No Newsboys, M110's or JK&A's. Also, as someone previously noted only a few W600's. I guess I'll have to make do with one of the other 2800 lots.

I definitely find that other auctions (Heritage, SCP, Goldin etc) generally have more items that fit my collection. I kind of view the REA catalog as a college textbook. I learn about sets and collectibles I had never heard of...

Looked online and in general, nice stuff. Just nothing that I need.

Amen
 

Very thankful as well.... it helps having an extremely narrow focus.

Ditto

Double edged sword

+1. Not a single autographed pre-WWI card -- not even a signed T206 Marquard!

Correct me if I am wrong, but I don't recall seeing a single t206 Ty Cobb with Ty Cobb back, 1919 Zeenut of Fatty Arbuckle, Allegheny Game Cards, nor a single W513 strip card.

In conclusion, this is an outrage, my congressman has been contacted, and the repercussions for the guilty party will ensue shortly. May the punishment fit the crimes committed.

Brian (happy auction for all, bidders, placeholder bidders, lurkers with dreams of bidding, and the have no intention of bidding types)

I'll be honest with you I think it's a weak auction on their end
Then lie on the memorabilia side selling the Mickey Cochrane 12A glove which I owned and sold in the last auction and had to point it out to them that is the rarest glove of his that they get ever find and they listed as the only one and the only time they've ever listed it I can't be bothered talking to them cuz I wasn't happy the way they handle things regardless. I hate to say it but I believe they are not very good on the memorabilia side of auctioning equipment I think they're un -knowledgeable on some things

Only three t209s and all in a mixed collector grade lot. These cards have all but disappeared from the market in the last two years or so. You could usually rely on REA for a small lot or the like, but alas. My set is stalled!

Meanwhile, lots of other stuff!

Don't we all. There's plenty of stuff available that I'm interested in. But then again my collection is very unfocused. The only thing that will hold me back is a lack of available funds.

For those of us who are unfocused the auction is a cornucopia of opportunity.

I agree. Although I mainly collect 52 Topps cards, which this auction has a lot of, if I had more play money there are a ton of other cards that I'd love to also own.

There are definitely a TON of cool items in this auction I'd love to own on the memorabilia side especially. Don't have many Clemente items, but that signed 71 WS program sure is tempting. Wish they had some Royals Jackie stuff for sure.

I did find a couple of Cubs post cards:D

Did everyone already receive their catalogues? I have received a catalogue for every one of their auctions in the past but have yet to receive one for this auction. :(

got mine yesterday

So, there is still hope that I will get mine. Maybe its too heavy for my mailman to carry.

Grignons?

Got the catalog today... oh that smell...

Yep.

My wife knew the catalog arrived by the smell of it. She made me retreat to the basement with it.

With all due respect to Brian, I have twice pointed out that the representation that Babe Ruth only appeared in a handful of games in 1915 and thus it is remarkable that he was chosen to appear in the 1916 M101-4 and 101-5 sets is erroneous, yet continues to go uncorrected. In actual fact, the Babe was 18 and 8 with a 2.44 ERA for the Boston Red Sox in 1915 as a true 20-year-old phenom, almost certainly the most promising young left-handed pitcher in the AL. It would hardly have been a surprise that he was included in the 1916 sets.

Just venting, I guess,

Larry

Hi Larry,

Thanks for pointing that out. You're obviously correct--Ruth played 4 games in 1914 and had a greater workload in 1915. That line in the description was originally used in 2007 (coincidentally when this RC was last sold) and was inadvertently carried into this one. We've removed that reference and will be sure to eliminate it going forward.

Brian

No catalog yet in South Florida

No catalog here for me - NYC suburb

I marked a lot of pages with a bent corner, Whew!

Rea
 

Nothing yet in central Jersey....
ugh

Nothing in Georgia

Lots of amazing stuff. Hard to get side tracked from collecting goals when looking through a catalog with this caliber of stuff

Heck, I am getting catalogs from AH's that have not opened yet.
Still nothing from REA.

The Columbus Day holiday appears to have affected delivery of catalogs, but at this point unfortunately it's a USPS issue as all catalogs have left our printer's warehouse. We ship more than any other AH, so the mailings are staggered West to East to allow for 10,000+ to make their way around the country (and world) and arrive around approximately the same time. We just received our office copies yesterday, so I imagine this weekend and Monday will see a ton of catalogs hit the mailbox.

Brian

It's all good. I figured it was a USPS thing. I heard they still use mule train to get items to where I live. I'm sure most people just like having the catalog to look at, as 99 percent of bidding comes from online.

this might be why major auction houses see a need to run their auctions longer than a week or 10 days

Anybody in Canada get theirs yet? Nothing in BC yet.

David, nothing yet here in Toronto. Hopefully the catalogue will arrive before the auction ends. Unfortunately that's the norm with most auction houses for Canadian clients. (In fairness Memory Lane's latest catalogue arrived the day before the auction ended.)

Im in the states and I havent received my catalog...lol

Sorry to resurrect this thread from page three.
An REA catalog was delivered by UPS yesterday to my doorstep in Victoria, British Columbia. Had already looked it over on-line but I can do a more thorough and leisurely review turning the pages instead of clicking a mouse. Plenty of time before the auction ends. All is good. Thanks Brian.

This is a very unusual REA screw up. Very surprising!

I am not a real hard core conservationist, as these things go, but I wish I could opt out of some of these catalogs. I was through the REA website so many times honestly I haven't cracked the catalog and its been on my night table now since last Sunday afternoon.

I actually agree with Steve on this one. It’s 2017. Print is dying. We can wax poetically about “holding something tangible,” and the smell, but from a pure financial standpoint, if the high printing and shipping costs associated with these catalogs went away, the premiums could go down, while keeping AH net margins whole. Wouldn’t that be a decent trade off?

Sensible idea but good luck with that. At least the part about premiums going down.

You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. ;)

I have been told that a major reason that auction houses continue to produce glossy catalogs in this day and age is to satisfy the egos of their major consignors.

Yeah, can see that. Nothing like seeing your item on page 1 or 2. If I consigned a six figure item I guess I'd want the fully monty as well. But even if 10% of their customers opted out that would be worth something.

Once my catalog arrived long after I'd seen everything online, I logged in thinking for sure there would be a way to opt out under settings, but I couldn't find anything - I was thinking about the environment as well - I can't see why it would hurt to leave it up to the individual.

i was over a friends house tonight...watching the game and he had an rea catalog...we had to refer to to settle an dispute. Those T3's sure are somethin'!

Unsalted Nuts
 

One of the auction lots I find most impressive from a collector standpoint is the Batter-Up near master collection of the various tints. Collecting just the 1-80 non-high number subset regardless of tint is enough of an accomplishment, but to pursue all 800+ of these cards, especially the high number tints, is just plain nuts. Never have seen an accumulation like it.

Brian

It's too bad there's not an auction that deals specifically in Cuban/Latin items.

-Ryan

Ryan-Maybe you should think about starting one