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Butch & Co.A fair question, Chris, but putting a dollar value on a unique (or nearly unique) item is always a challenge. The only track record established is for the "standard issue" Red Barber, so we'd only be guessing as regards the Musial/Campanella variation. Honestly, though, we think it probably wouldn't get a lot more at auction than the Shotton/Roe edition -- and possibly even less. Most collectors hunting the Barber game seem to have a youthful connection to the three New York teams (and the players and managers pictured on it) and to having played the Barber game itself as kids, and that's where the value lies for those game/memorabilia collectors -- not in variations to the graphics, the way those sort of rarities and anomalies appeal to many among the far, far larger numbers of card collectors (or coin or stamp collectors, &c').
But as we said, that's just a guess, and if the Musial/Campanella variation came up for auction, much would depend, as always, on condition and completeness. Joe is usually way better than we are at predicting what price a game will fetch at auction... Chief Wahoo, any thoughts?
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