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Posted By: Paul

I'm sure the folks at Mastronet are real smart, at least when it comes to making money. But sometimes the decisions they make in grouping lots together are just plain mystifying. They have a lot of hundreds of Old Judge cards which appear to include the Radbourn portrait. (I'm not really sure, because for some reason Mastronet does not tout the presence of this card). If sold by itself, the Radbourn portrait would probably bring several thousand dollars. But I doubt that it will add several thousand dollars in bids to the enormous lot that it's in. Why not sell the Radbourn as a separate lot? It would make a lot of collectors very happy and very eager to spend their money. And if the few folks with the big bucks to spend on several hundred Old Judges were also interested in the Radbourn portrait, they could simply bid on both lots. Instead, the Radbourn card is buried in a giant lot. I just don't get it.