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Old 02-03-2013, 09:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Bored5000 View Post
You got that right. Jim Thorpe has always been one of my collecting favorites. There was a raw 1912 "Thorpe returns to Carlisle" postcard on ebay for the past week that I would have loved to have had. I put in a $402 snipe. In hindsight, I guess I was foolish for thinking I could get the postcard at that price. The postcard being raw prevented me from going higher, but I just got crushed by three other snipes. Final bid: $823.55.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/360577489042...84.m1423.l2649
I was the underbidder on this card. Had a high snipe of $813, and thought it would never come close to that. Apparently someone wanted it worse than I.
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