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Originally Posted by D. Bergin
I think Heritage just needs to bite the bullet on this one and take the loss, whatever it may be.
Will do more harm to them if they follow through with the auction.
Not sure they should just hand them over to the Braves either, as they are just a consignee and not the owner of the items in question either. Have the Braves deal directly with the consignor and not Heritage.
Also, if these are actually legit, is it entirely possible, all of these items would have been lost to time if the groundskeeper in question didn't bag up all these items and curate them for the last 50 years?
This is 1974 we're talking about. There was no known collectible market for bases at the time that I'm aware of. Teams weren't pulling every piece of memorabilia they could think of to sell on the secondary market, or even to put it in the stadium museum.
Braves want them NOW...but did they want them in 1974?
Also, Braves don't seem to be sure if they are "real" or "inauthentic"...but they want them "returned" to them either way. Do the Braves claim to have the "real" bases or not?
So many questions.....so much I don't know and never will.  |
Not sure how it does more harm following thru with the auctions especially on the jerseys. No one knows the ownership and what happened on items from 50-70 years ago. So I think the Braves claims are just BS and they want to get the items without spending money to get them back.
But dealing with the bases, they should probably be pulled because now because of the one in the HOF and the other possible lelands one puts the heritage ones into more question.