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Originally Posted by BobC
What is even more surprising to me were the final hammer prices. Both PSA 9s, but the older '54 Topps Mays card going for exactly 30% less than a '62 Topps Mays?!?!? They are both not always found well centered, but if anything, I would have expected those prices to more likely be the other way around. Possibly a case of two determined collectors fighting for registry improvement or superiority in regard to the '62 Mays?
The PSA pop reports show a total of 16 '54 Mays cards graded as 9s, with three of them having qualifiers, but none graded higher. Meanwhile, the pop report shows a total of 9 '62 Mays cards graded as 9s, with none having any qualifiers, but in this case there is 1 single higher graded '62 Mays card graded 10. Though there are actually fewer '62 Topps Mays cards graded 9, or higher, I can't see enough of a difference in the numbers to justify and explain the big difference in those final auction prices being based on these pop reports alone.
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1962T in high grades tends to sell at a pretty good premium. Wood borders can be a real issue with getting dinged up pretty easily, and I think that’s what’s coming into play here with the prices.
If you look historically at those two cards in PSA 6, 7, 8, the 1962T consistently sells for a lot more than the 1954T in the same grade. And often the difference is 2x or 3x.
Also, we’ve seen a few of the 1954T in PSA 9 come onto the market over the last 5 years. I think this might be the only 1962T in PSA 9 in that span. So there was probably some pent-up demand for the 62T.