1952 Topps Bartrome #332 pricing dropping?
 

I dont know if that one buyer is out there anymore....theres 5 or 6 psa ones listed and only 1 purchase on ebay the past month. I am only aware of one guy that was buying them plus the 'flippers'

maybe this post will get that guy to buy the ones on ebay..becasue i dont think any flippers will...we shall see....

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Jake---I think this is one of those things that Kickitup has said we do not yet understand but may get it some day. Be patient. :)

It may also have a bearing on whether I will be able to buy a Koufax rookie for $ 1750 in June of next year.

Or it could just be that someone is incarcerated at the moment

Conspiracy theorist.

the baritromes seem like they need more friends..like they are orphans there on ebay..to be a part of the ebay museum

I think it's more likely that Mr. "I'm going to unleash my multiple stealth accounts" is in an asylum :).

He's still buying, but not overpaying days after an eBay auction ends.

Bartrome
 

Ted---did not LOG have an auto'd Batrome in it's last auction. What happened to that one ?

He wouldn't overpay for mine, so I didn't bid. I could have used the upgrade. He's expecting it to be listed, buy wont be paying much more than the ending price plus the BP.


Sorry to whoever bought it thinking they'd make a huge score. He isn't any more interested in the signed copy, than a psa 1!

Is it the same guy that was banned from here that started a thread about his hoarding of 1952 Topps Bartirome cards, but come to find out that his name is Bartiromo?

I was going to say back in jail, but I could see an asylum too.

Yep. Then he tried to convince us all that Tony Bartirome's last name was really Bartiromo also.

its starting to be months....BINs sitting there...used to be zero most of the time for graded copies now its 7+

Random question, is there any earthly idea how many '52 Topps cards were printed? I'm not talking about the rare high numbers, let's just say Series 1. Millions? Hundreds of thousands? Just thousands?

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Ryan---here is some related info from Bob Lemke's wonderful Blog. I actually read the referenced FTC cases when trying to find out if Topps litigation actually halted the Fleer 1963 set at one series ( It did not, just poor sales)

http://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0LEV...kwdNqzvWb6wh4-

Thanks :)

Thanks Al, that doesn't seem like a whole heck of a lot of cards! 300 "Bartiromes" graded and 1200 Mantles, we know Mantle was a DP, so are there another 300 Bartiromes lurking out there? I'm being facecious using #332. No many Hugh numbers to be had at shows these days, and just about none raw. I'm hard pressed to think there are 300 of each guy sitting in attics and binders. People saved everything Mantle, so not surprising if more if his cards are were spared the garbage.

There are more red backs than blacks in the low series of every single player, say what you will about reds and blacks being equally as difficult to find. 900 red back pafkos topping the charts, with only 400 black backs.

1,000 yogi Berra's, are there many more out there raw?


I guess only time will tell the true story of the pop report as more cards are graded. I'd expect to see a decline in the lower grade cards submitted in the future as the juice just isn't worth the squeeze in most cases.

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Revenues may not tell the whole story. I do not know if the card dump legend is really true but my guess would be there was a lot of unsold inventory that later made it into the hobby one way or another. Some is still showing up in Christmas rack packs :D

It does seem to be Christmas year round.


I'm waiting for a 1980 rack with 3 Henderson RCs on top!

Guess I missed my opportunity to make a fortune with the one I own! :(