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Originally Posted by molenick
This is certainly an auction that I missed but at least two people saw it. Based on the estimate of 200-500 GBP I bet the auction house (and people watching the auction) was surprised.
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The auction house is well established and known for selling UK cards of the era. For example, they recently sold an 1890s card of Arthur Wharton, reputed to be the first black professional soccer player, for circa $35k. Whilst that sort of price may feel modest compared to many baseball cards of the era, it’s very strong in UK / European terms.
I don’t recall seeing many US cards at this auction house previously and I suspect both the auction house and consignor were pleasantly here. I think there were a few other nice US cards also, including an early Babe Ruth and, whilst I wasn’t tracking it, again I suspect they probably did better than their estimates.