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Originally Posted by bn2cardz
If you are going to cut it up why not take the time to make a nice presentation with a photo of the player. Some of these do have photos and some don't.
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Photos and, more importantly the rights to use them in a product for profit, cost money. Topps has rigths to some players, but not to others. They may be able to buy those (and should if they are charging this amount), but I've seen it speculated that Mathewson's card image rights are exclusive to Panini (apparently he has had cards made by them in the last few years). Again, I used to work at Topps (as baseball editor, not on contracts).
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Originally Posted by bn2cardz
The original sold for $7170 in Heritage last year. We will see what the new value is after this sells.
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Actually, that buyer profited nicely, as Topps bought this on ebay a few months ago for $12,500 (link below). I doubt that the card made from it will garner that much, but that is beside the point. The person who won the card paid under $200 to do so, and understanding that
is the whole key to understanding the overall phenomenon.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Christy-Math...cAAOSwHaBWkvgr