[53toppscollector]

I think it also really depends what someone is searching/hunting for that drives prices. All you need for a massive hammer price is 2 people fighting over something scarce.

In that same auction with the really high Ames/Devlin Old Mill prices, I grabbed a Krause Old Mill for my run, and I paid $67 for it. Ames/Devlin were much more in demand and more rare, and the pop on my Krause was higher than the median Old Mill back, but not that much higher.

I just picked up Charlie Rhodes Tolstoi in an SGC 2 holder. I paid $150 for it on open bid, no other interest in it. SGC pop of 5, PSA pop of 10, so 15 total. Time and place feels like as big a factor as anything else.