[ctownboy]

IMHO, this is a late April Fool's Day joke.

I have gone and still go to a lot of auctions. Large, small, indoor, outdoor, city, country, ones that start at 9 A.M. and ones that start at 7 P.M. It is VERY hard for me to believe that these cards were found in the bottom of a box and NOBODY knew they were there (especially the auctioneers).

No matter WHAT auction I have gone to, there are ALWAYS people digging through EVERY box to see what is in it. So even if people didn't know the real value of these cards there had to be a couple of people at the auction who would have at least thrown some bids on these things to drive their price up to more than $100 dollars. This is especially true since all the cards seem to be of big name players.

I can understand if a handful of common T 206 cards were found and nobody at an auction knew that a Drum back on one of them was something special. But, come on, Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, Ted Williams, Jackie Robinson and other big name players?

NOBODY else saw these cards in the bottom of a box and NOBODY decided to run the OP up in price just for the heck of it?

A few years ago, I went to an auction SPECIFICALLY for a stack of B-18 blankets. When they came up, only two other people even paid attention to the stack and that was because the auctioneer made a big deal out of these being older baseball items.

Only another guy and myself were bidding on them and I had the top bid at $100 dollars (there were 39 total blankets in the stack including a Walter Johnson) so I was stoked to think that I was going to get these so inexpensively. At that moment, however, a wealthy guy who regularly attends this auction noticed what was going on. He bid me up until I won the blankets for $325 dollars. Still a good deal but not as good as it could have been.

The moral is, at EVERY auction I have ever attended there is ALWAYS at least one person there who has money and who will bid something up (even if they don't really know what it is and don't really have any interest in it) just because they think someone else is getting a good deal on it.

David