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Originally Posted by rats60
I didn’t collect prewar until 1984 so I can’t comment specifically on those prices in 1982. However, by 1984 dealers didn’t necessarily respect Beckett pricing on scarce cards. They weren’t likely to under sell cards like those. I find it hard to believe that dealers were actually selling Wagner and Jackson for less than Speaker. Those prices may have come from surveys and not actual sales.
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I agree concerning the guide's accuracy of pricing at the time...quite often it seemed askew to me, even back then. But overall I think it was a decent snapshot of the collective mindset at the time, and I imagine you could have easily gotten a Joe for Ty pricing back then.
Brian