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Posted By: shane leonard

Jim,
I realize that it cost money to do the advertising, cost of shipping, overhead, and cost to make the catalogs. However, is there additional costs to list a 1976 Topps unopened box vs a T206 Wagner?
You are probably right that most auction houses would not do it. I bet one would though. Mastro would probably laugh at the thought of it, until they found out that someone offered it or there were others competing for the business.
I know of a situation where Mastro, REA and Lelands were all trying to get the collection of a friend of mine. The collection was pretty close to 2M. The offers became pretty creative by some of those guys.
I would much rather see our friend here with the huge collection know what his options are, than to be given a 10% consignor fee by some auction house.

SL

What value is it to the auction house to have a collection like this?