memory Lane Spring Rarity Auction
 

Digital Catalog is making its way out. No words other than Incredible!!!
disclosure- I am not consignor, nor affiliated. Just a collector

Fully agree, this is one of the best auctions in recent memory.

I haven't seen anything yet. Is it on their website somewhere that I'm missing?

Here is a link

https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/43f6ebe9

Looks like Ryans Flickr page.

Incredible cards and good luck to Ryan and any Net54 bidders, some true gems in there.

Damn! 1914 Cracker Jack set break AND General Baking near set breaks in the same auction.

Good luck to all Net54 consigners and bidders.

Thanks for the link...indeed an impressive auction.


Brian

They always have great items in there auction and this one definitely raises the bar.

Amazing auction...not for T205 collectors though.

auction
 

Holy Shit what an auction!!...it's depressing when you see cards you used to own with a starting $10,000 bid...oh well, I'll be smart in the next life...Jerry

Whoa. I clearly don't have enough money.

Vintage baseball card collecting becomes more and more a spectator sport…

Lots of familiar looking ruth cards on there!!

Do you mean relists from their previous Ruth extravaganza auction?

Either way, it is a very impressive offering and might be the best I have seen in a few years. Amazing they could acquire that much amazing material with all the competition out there.

Which Ruths are from their last Ruth auction?

This.

Lots of sellers at the levels

No, I meant out of someone's collection here i think?

Ok. Thanks for the clarification. Glad I asked.

Wow. What a outstanding auction. Crackerjack heaven. I can’t wait until auction opens. Tremendous Babe Ruth’s too. Congrats to Memory Lane for getting these consignments.

Incredible auction

Wow
 

A tremendous offering….

528 pages. I see the search option on top but can't get it to work. I've tried 3 web browsers. Anyone else?

What a great auction.

Two options that I’ve found, neither of which is particularly satisfying:

1) Manually search all 500+ pages. Takes time, but is good fun.
2) Wait until the online auction opens. Much easier, although also difficult because it requires patience.

Download and open this PDF with Acrobat Reader or some other PDF viewer. You can control-f search at that point.

https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/serv...ectedPages=all

Winner! Thanks!

What an amazing auction! And Joe T’s writeups are in a league of their own.
Joe T is heart and soul of ML.

I agree on both counts-- the auction's depth and breadth is not often seen, and Joe's passion for the hobby is palpable. Talking to him about cards is one of the most fun aspects of the hobby, for this collector.

Just hope some will remember all this praise if a PSA 1 card in this four-trillion lot auction was not described in granular detail, or if its scan failed to pick up every wrinkle ;)

Memory Lane Spring Auction
 

I truly appreciate all the kind words, and yes, Memory Lane is very excited about the upcoming blockbuster spring auction. A special thanks to all of our devoted consignors, and please keep in mind, I am just one cog of a very well-oiled machine. It is the entire dedicated staff at Memory Lane that is the backbone of our success, and we look forward to continue providing the collecting community with an abundance of world-class offerings.

Sincerely,
Joe

Great offerings in the catalog!!

Looks like the SGC CJs were reholdered from the old SGC style at some point in the past year

Also the T206 SLers that only had T206 with no back designation were reholdered by PSA with the back designation on the front flip now
Here is Oldring in the new SGC holder and in the old SGC holder

I just got the catalog sent to my email. Lord have Mercy.

Search Fuction
 

FYI, the search function on the Memory Lane ZMAGS catalog has been fixed & is now working without any blips.

?? When does it start
All I see it ends May 4th
I am able to click on the pics and takes it to
Auction- which looks wrong per winter dates and clock
counting down and etc-
So it’s in process of updating it seems
Still any idea as to when? I looked on auction report and
not see it

This auction will separate the men from the boys. :D

Auction
 

Chris - Preview will be online April 8th. Auction opens for bidding April 11th. Closes May 4th.

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Amazing Stuff. Cant wait to bid on some Hoy and Taylor stuff!

The preview is now available online.

Good Morning!
 

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Its open.

Best of luck

Thanks Chase.

It’s beyond me to try and figure out how people are coming up with the kind of money to place these insane bids on just day 1 of this auction. The economy is supposedly in the tank and cost of essentials certainly hasn’t come back down at all after the crazy inflation over the past few years. Where do people come up with this kind of money?

I NEED SOME!!!

401K millionaires borrowing against themselves to hedge against the financial markets and diversify their portfolios?

Big talking point but I am not seeing it. Especially in the bigger auctions.

So Many Great and Rare Items

and Day 1 has seen a strong start on many of the items

Good Luck Ryan

My wallet is happy and I'm only somewhat surprised that with the breadth and quality of both the Memory Lane and Mile High auctions that neither has a single T207 and there is only a sprinkling of T205s to be found in the former.

There are times that collecting what's seemingly becoming a second-class set has its benefits

100+ bids just entered $50k+ already outbid on 30+ and this is just Day 1
Will be lucky to win a handful!! LOL!! :D

Going through the results this morning

Holy moly!

Hopefully our forum won alot


I was on the sideline so sadly nothing to contribute

It ended sometime after 3am CST. I went to sleep way before that. I was interested in a few things but not enough to stay up until the wee hours of the morning to bid. (heck I can't stay up that late anyway)



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Going into the final night, I have my firm number on everything Im going after, I drop that bid at around 11 and then wake up to see if they held up.
Too old to stay up that late, and if I miss, 99/100 that card/combo will come back around again.
That said 8 bids held up

That was a long night/early morning. Some super rare stuff in there and strong results on many cards, congrats to Ryan.
I ended up with 3 14CJs and wish I had a bigger budget as there were a few more cards that I would have loved to pick up.

market is HOT
 

Ray Caldwell 1914 cracker jack - PSA 3 - $18,000 !!!

Hate the antiquated closing format.

Was shut out but some strong prices for sure.

Agreed! Their 3am ending format is outdated.

Congrats on your consignments Ryan.....

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Bless the registry

Caldwell went super strong! Only outbid by Mathewson, Joe Jax, Cobb and Wagner last night for the 14 CJs. Somebody wanted this card bad…I have an idea of at least two of the bidders so I will see who posts him here or in their registry. As previously stated God bless the Registry!!!
SGC commons prices just don’t stand up to the PSA commons prices which is good for a collector who just needs the card.

Price on the much heralded Jackie card from other thread was meh.

I guess the MBA gold diamond label stamp of approval ain’t what it used to be.

Gold and diamond together is pretty special. Guy should have a tanzanite platinum level for sure.

I for one always felt Terry Hughes was tragically undervalued; glad to see some collectors or perhaps even investors are finally giving him love and seeing the potential. .209 career average, which is better than my team's 36M captain right now!

Some cards I like actually softened in price, which is great for the chances of adding them all. The 1914 CJ Shoeless came down a lot-- the 4 last night sold for 90k, while a 2.5 sold for 96 in 2021, another SGC 4 sold for 120k at Mile High in 2022, and a PSA 4 sold for 150k in 2023. So that was low.

The yellow Goudey #53 Ruth 4.5 also came down a bit. The last 4.5 sale was 30k (and the last three PSA 4 sales in order of older to newer are 22-19-17).

The e121 Babe also came down. The 5 sold for 70k, was being shopped privately pre-auction for 90k, and a 3.5 sold previously 72k.

Again, not accurate at all. These go for a few hundred ungraded. Dunno if the price was attributed to it being in a PSA holder, the MBA sticker or the over the top write up that also mislead the public as it being the only one in existence.

As for the general results, prices were all over place. Some things that I thought would do well seemed to have really corrected and other things went well beyond what I had anticipated. This is a really tough market to predict.

Yup, at any given snapshot in time, some cards will sell for new record highs while others will be lower than prior sales. It's just impossible to generalize or herd all cards together. Especially given the great variance in eye appeal possible— even within cards of the same grade. Best one can do when shopping for their collection is dig into all the images and sales data available.

That is an awesome photo. Congrats!

The ending price on the 14 CJ Jax really stood out to me as well as selling for far less that it had been the past couple years!

Jackie postcards in the hundreds? Sure …. In 2019.

That has always been true for the hobby. Eye appeal might explain some of the new record prices but I think most of the record prices are being paid for either issue or condition rarity. As for prices adjusting down, I feel it is nothing more than fewer people bidding/buying. The market was far more predictable than it is now. This feels different so I do not agree it is eye appeal and that would be over generalizing what drives the market today.

LOL. It is not a postcard. :o I have a raw one. It is a flimsy piece of paper. Speaking for myself I make it a point to not comment on things I know nothing about.

I guess another non-postcard that recently sold in the hundreds.


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That is a postcard and it is signed. And here, let me fix your link

https://bid.robertedwardauctions.com...?itemid=175618

I never wrote that eye appeal is the cause behind all pricing. I said it is a factor in why one cannot generalize about there being one prevailing market trend or direction.

Makes me want to break out the jigsaw and find out if my well-preserved example is a 1914 or not!

Brian

It seemed like it was implied and I was simply stating that the market feels different and the trends I see make me conclude it is a more limited audience. That is my opinion on the market and you have yours.

As many of you know, I consigned a large portion of the prewar items that sold last night. I am very content with the results, although they were all over the place.

Last night's auction contained about 75% of my total consignment, with other items to sell in the Summer and Winter auctions. When I first consigned, Joe and I (Joe is with Memory Lane) sat down and we estimated a low, likely, and high value for every card. Last night, the total aggregate sales price of my consignments, with the Buyer's Premium, was about 3% above the total likely-value we placed on the items. Thus, last night's entire consignment ended, in the aggregate, almost exactly where we estimated it would. That said, many individual items went for very different amounts that expected (both good and bad).

The D304s went crazy. Literally, nonsensical; but I wont complain! The Wagner, Matty, Lajoie, Collins, and many commons went for multiples over prior highs.

My T206 set and 1914 CJ set both did better, in aggregate, than I expected. The 1914 CJ Jackson was the bad egg of the entire auction -- someone stole that card. But most other items, including commons, did very well. Same with the T206 set; the Green Cobb did not do well at all, but that was offset substantially by the other Cobbs and many PSA 7s+ and strong results for commons.

The W600 Matty went through the roof, as it should have, considering it was produced in his rookie year (albeit not the first issue of his rookie year). The Tip Top Wagner did great, and my Planks all finished very strong. Almost every Ruth finished on the lighter side of what I expected, and a few crapped the bed. Wagners and Cobbs are definitely 10%-20% off their highs, but still strong.

Put it this way, it was a very large and diverse consignment and it ended at 102%+ (including BP) of where we estimated the likely value total to be. I am happy with the results, and now I need sleep!

Congratulations, if this asset transfer/trade is enjoyed half as much as you enjoyed this portion of your collection then that is a home run in my book.

T206
 

I grabbed a handful of the mid grade T206 (including the Eddie Collins Old Mill PSA 6) , as I am always looking for centered/nice eye appeal copies.

Beautiful group - congrats!

First off congrats to Ryan and glad ML performed to y’all’s expectations. There were Amazing lots and tons of eye candy. I was close to popping a late bid on the CJ Jackson and maybe should have earlier.

I feel asleep a little after 3AM trying to wait up to get in late bids. I refuse to place a top all bids in any auction. I don’t know why some auction companies think this is good business. HA and REA have changed and they are both the leaders for sport card auctions IMO. I wish other AHs would follow suit and close lots independently, which allows bidders all to be there, competing for that lot. The ML format we guess when the auction is gonna close. Heck, I could do a bid ever 15 minutes for 24 hours straight if I wanted to and then that would make the AH just shut it down manually. This favors all the West Coast buyers… Ok, enough complaining about the format..

The Matty W600 was amazing and no surprise to the final price. Congrats to the winner. I thought the Young Cabinet had a little meat left on the bone and maybe I should have popped a late bid on that.

My bid around 1 or 2am held up on the 1910 T213 type 1 (1910) Red Cobb which is a card I’ve always wanted. My understanding on the three types are type 1’s are most rare followed closely from type 3s (1919), then type 2s which are still rare but more common (if you can say that) for the series.

Congrats to all the winners of the ML auction including the bottom items in the gallery, as I would have bid more had I been awake. If you want to sell for quick profit then PM me….

D304 Matty
 

Yes the D304 Matty that sold for $43k. If the bidders bidding that card up would have looked on Ebay they could have had a 5.5 for $15K. I was think of buying the Ebay one at 5:am. it sold I if figured early morning!

Thanks for chiming in Ryan regarding your take on the mixed results from last night.

What were your thoughts on the ending price on your Psa 6 1916 M101-4 Herpolsheimer Joe Jackson? $50,741.76 before the BP seemed low as well.