RMY Auctions May Collectors Auction Closes Tonight (4-15)

[prewarsports]

Happy Tax Day!

Our Monthly Auction closes tonight (4-15) featuring over 300 lots of vintage photography, including some phenomenal images that have never been offered or seen before. There is still plenty of time to register as it takes only a few minutes.

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Make sure you click to be added to our mailing list as our June "Premier" Auction will be the finest assemblage of vintage press photography ever offered to the public.

Have some fun browsing the auction and spend that Tax Refund before your wife finds out about it

[Runscott]

I know I shouldn't be bumping this thread, but...

YOU MO-FO's NEED TO LAY OFF MY STUFF!!!!! I don't have deep pockets, but they are kind of wide.

[bn2cardz]

The prices on everything that I had placed bids on so that I could seriously look at in extended bidding is going higher than I thought it would. Even looking through RMY history it looks like prices for certain subjects are bringing in top dollar. I am new to photographs so there may be things I am not factoring (like photographer) but there seems to be some strong interest in this auction.

[bn2cardz]

Originally Posted by Runscott

I know I shouldn't be bumping this thread, but...

YOU MO-FO's NEED TO LAY OFF MY STUFF!!!!! I don't have deep pockets, but they are kind of wide.

Did you end up getting what you wanted last night? I hope I wasn't the one bumping you up. I did get a few I wanted, but lost out on more than I won. I just ended up making the winner of a lot of lots pay more, but not being able to go higher than them.

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by bn2cardz

Did you end up getting what you wanted last night? I hope I wasn't the one bumping you up. I did get a few I wanted, but lost out on more than I won. I just ended up making the winner of a lot of lots pay more, but not being able to go higher than them.

Thanks! I won 7 items, including my primary target, and only two of them got bumped up after I went to bed (1:00am Eastern). That cost me another $80 that I thought was ridiculous, but I realize that once a bidder loses a high-end item or two, they go back and start trying to spend their money. Besides, Rhys' buyer premium is very low and I only hit 75% of my ceiling bids.

I was the underbidder on a few tremendous items: 1936 SF Seals practicing with the bridge in the background, Dimaggio as a rookie, Van Oeyen Medwick. I had planned to snipe the Edd Roush, as I'm fairly certain it's a Conlon, but ran out of steam.

My favorite photo in the auction was the 'Moses Yellow Horse'.

[bn2cardz]

Originally Posted by Runscott

Thanks! I won 7 items, including my primary target, and only two of them got bumped up after I went to bed (1:00am Eastern). That cost me another $80 that I thought was ridiculous, but I realize that once a bidder loses a high-end item or two, they go back and start trying to spend their money. Besides, Rhys' buyer premium is very low and I only hit 75% of my ceiling bids.

I was the underbidder on a few tremendous items: 1936 SF Seals practicing with the bridge in the background, Dimaggio as a rookie, Van Oeyen Medwick. I had planned to snipe the Edd Roush, as I'm fairly certain it's a Conlon, but ran out of steam.

My favorite photo in the auction was the 'Moses Yellow Horse'.

That Van Oeyen Medwick went to me. I really liked the image and kept going back and forth on if I was wanting to go higher.

As a side note when I was trying to decide if I wanted to go higher I was looking through your photos on ebay and your web page and decided that I really didn't want to pass up on the Medwick...

I also ended up with the 1920 Larry Doyle and 1926 Chick Hafey.

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by bn2cardz

That Van Oeyen Medwick went to me. I really liked the image and kept going back and forth on if I was wanting to go higher.

So it WAS you who bumped me. Well, if you have a change of heart at some point, keep me in mind.

I'm curious why the big boys let me have that Walter Johnson so cheap - it's the image used for the cover of Henry Thomas' Johnson biography and also in this ill-advised Topps card, plus he apparently liked to use it for signing (I found a Legendary version, as well as a Sotheby's/SCP). Not sure who the photographer is - looks Conlon-ish, but given the NEA backstamp, possibly Van Oeyen.

[bn2cardz]

I forgot to mention that the 1936 Dimaggio with children was on my list of pictures I kept bidding on. The year didn't matter to me as much as the children in awe of him in the photo. When I couldn't decide on the Medwick the DiMaggio was the other image I was trying to decide to bid on or not. In the end I really wanted the action photo.