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Originally Posted by ullmandds
Agreed! I consigned my 51 bowman mantle a year or two ago only to find like six of them in the auction! To say I was pissed off was an understatement! In most of the big big auctions you will see multiple examples of red tea 206 Cobbs, 1952 Topps mantles, even cards like e95 Ty Cobbs it’s not uncommon to see two or three examples in a big auction.
These experiences made me think twice about the big auction houses sometimes smaller auctions are better where your item will be a headliner versus just one of many!
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But then does it really even matter? There may not be more than one of that one particular card, in that one particular auction, but with the proliferation of auctions today, there's a great chance that there are at least two or three (or even more) other auctions or online sellers with multiple examples of that same card up for auction/sale at the exact same time anyway. The internet has truly changed this hobby into being more like an investment/business industry. While the internet has made it possible for collectors to much more easily now find and acquire cards they used to have to search diligently for in the past, it has done the exact same thing for everyone else as well!