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Originally Posted by Exhibitman
Rumors about PSA's misidentification of the year of the Gehrig were flying around among Exhibit collectors when the auction first went up. Apparently, at least one collector checked the card against a 1925 in person at the National and the difference was obvious. That had to depress prices. Even so, we are talking about $688,000.00 for the card (plus vig or is that including vig?), which is still damned impressive.
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Yeah I think the 688K was extremely high for a signed 1926 and almost get the sense that some did not care about the error on the identification by PSA who had two opportunities to catch it.
On the flip side I was surprised at the lack of attention the E90-1 Jackson got. Had two guys not gotten into it at the end it would never have gotten to 213K. A very sloppy PSA 5 came up in 2016 in Heritage that went for 143K. It is not a card that comes up often in anything better than VG. I know the PSA holder accounted for a good deal of the 143K but this SGC 5 was a far superior example. The 213K is a lot of money for a non Hall of Fame rookie card that most find ugly but I was expecting it to sell for more in this era of massive prices being paid for elite cards. Apparently it is not THAT elite.