T206 Johnson portrait - closed $2K+

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Posted By: steve

Last night on ebay, a T206 Johnson portrait PSA 5. Jeesh, so this is now a $2K+ card in a nice EX 5 grade - wow! I was going to make a push up to $1800. Cashing in the year long change cup won't help much anymore.

Good to see prices still on the rise. Bummer to see prices still on the rise.

Steve.

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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

Steve, the 6 has recently gone over 4K! And be thankful you weren't the Memory Lane bidder in November of 05 who, according to vintagecardprices.com, paid $2546 for the PSA 5 version.

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Posted By: Dave F

What did the last Johnson SGC 60 go for?

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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

$1725 in the recent H & S auction.

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Posted By: Dave F

Is Johnson's card catching up to Ty Cobb's in value?

And where does that leave Matty and Cy? Falling behind?

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Posted By: quan

i nominate jeff for moderator. he's all over the board recently!

the big hofers (johnson, young, matty) prices in EX had thawed out recently but i guess it's on an upswing again.

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Posted By: MVSNYC

courtesy of Jay Wolt...here is HOFer power rankings for T3's but obviously can be applied to other sets, including T206...

Wolt Power Rankings
Hall Of Famers T3 (25)

1 Cobb
2 Matty/Johnson
4 Cy Young
5 Lajoie/Speaker
7 Keeler
8 Baker
9 Collins
10 Joss
11 McGraw
12 M. Brown
13 Crawford
14 Chance
15 Tinker/Evers
17 Waddell
18 Walsh/Bender
20 Wills/Bresnahan/Griffith/Clarke/Wallace/Jennings

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Posted By: Steve f

If it was to be... Would the consensus put Honus at 1 or 2?

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Posted By: MVSNYC

I would put Honus at number 2...

Cobb should stand alone at # 1

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Posted By: Dave F

It really seems like the T206 Evers portrait has been increasing in sales lately...seems it would be higher on the list.

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Posted By: MVSNYC

ummm, well Evers' portrait card is "on the rise" only because it is one of the tuffer portraits to acquire (see Ted Z's post), and NOT because he is becoming a more loved HOFer...

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Posted By: Dave F

And I guess the thought is Jimmy Collins would also fit in at #20.

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Posted By: Dylan

The list does need to take in account differences in poses. While the Mathewson and Johnson portraits perform extremely well, the Cy Young action poses coninue to sell for a premium over both Mathewson and Johnsons action poses. And the above mention of Evers portrait has a lot more to do with rarity then popularity. Lajoie's portrait is starting to get up there in price too now days.
Edited to add- I was looking through VCP and the last Collins in SGC 40 sold for nearly 130.00. Thats stronger then a lot of the others at the lower end of the list Dave

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Posted By: MVSNYC

please note-

just to clarify, Jay's list above was put together by him, as a personal ranking based on desirability & toughness for T3 HOFers...

i was merely using this list as a jump-off point for the discussion of T206 HOFers. obviously T206 has many different HOF poses (some tuffer than others).

but i do feel this list can be used as a basic "guide" for ranking the desirability of vintage HOFer cards.