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Originally Posted by Lorewalker
Hi Bob,
Yes you are right...it always comes down to money. Maybe the family who was holding out really had no interest in selling and thought the estimates the auction house gave were outlandish? The members of the family I saw interviewed seem like good people. Once the sales concluded they might have changed their mind and looked for a buyer. Interesting that they did not offer them to Heritage since they did so well with them.
I think the actual number of unique E98s having been graded would be much closer to 3,000 than 4,000, if I had to take a wild guess. You can see some high grade E98s listed on eBay right now that are not deemed BSF on the label but when you read the description the seller states the card came from a second offering from members of the family.
The find, to me, is still one of the great ones in my time in the hobby. I still have not added a single one to my collection but before I am done I will add several. My preference would be to get ones from those Heritage graded. After reading up about Mathis I would never buy one that went through his hands. Ironic that a virgin find like that ended up with him. Something just so wrong about that. Again...all about the money.
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Exactly what I was thinking as well, probably closer to 3,000. One thing seems certain though, since prior to the BSF there were no graded E98s higher than a NM 7, I think it can be pretty much agreed upon that any E98s now graded that are higher than that must have come from the BSF after all.
I totally agree with you also that this whole back-end sale with Mathis just makes little sense, and still seems sketchy to me on some level, I just don't know what it is. And your observation/question about why after seeing how well Heritage did with the initial batch of BSF cards, why didn't the rest of the family trust Heritage with the rest of the cards from the Find then? That is a great question, and based on what I've been hearing, the fact that the family didn't go that route makes no sense at all. I know that family politics, especially when you're talking about inheritances and money, can be unbelievably complex and insane. We'll probably never learn all the facts and details behind this family and how they ultimately divvied up and cashed in on their inheritance. What I would love to know though is if any of the cousins that decided to keep their share of the E98 cards may still have those cards in their possession. Would be interesting to talk with that person(s) as to the reasons and thinking behind what they did then, and maybe what they are still thinking of doing with those cards. LOL