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Originally Posted by Louis Bollman
To reiterate what Ken said earlier, when viewed in it's entirety, a collector must come to the conclusion that these albums are much more valuable than the sum of their parts.
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Ken just said that they were worth more together from a historical perspective, he didn't say that they were worth more from a financial perspective. He continued on to opine that there is a "a good possibility that you will see individual cards from the collection for sale privately and by other auction houses in the future." That can only be because presumably, the cards might go for lesser value as an entire collection than if they were broken up.
i really don't have any vendetta against Goldin Auctions. I would like to register. But I'll only register if there's a card I actually want for my collection, logically. Finally, the cards came, but I can't bid on them. Estates such as this one are commonly broken up, at least to some extent. LOTG just broke up a recent find. REA broke up an OJ Cincinnati find so that people could bid on the McPhee cards separately. It is not unprecedented.
Now, of course, you and Ken are agents for the consigner, and your interests lie in promoting your product, as it should. I understand that. It is probably too late, but one thing that Mile High did for their current auction is divided a 300-win collection so that bidders can bid either individually or on the collection as a whole. Good work Mile High. Whether your auction software can support that, whether it is too late as the auction has already begun, or whether you and/or the consigner would be willing to do such a thing is an entirely different matter.