Mile High auction - the Stokeley Muhammad Ali collection

[scooter729]

The Mile High auction ended last night, with an incredible variety of Muhammad Ali cards available. This high-end collection had been assembled by former NFL player Brandon Stokeley.

Anyone have thoughts on the offerings? Pick up anything?

I thought prices on some were lower than I expected, but likely dragged down by the sheer quantity of cards available. There were probably 6-7 Lampos (couple of which sold very strong!), 8-10 1966 Paninis, tons of Hemmets (in panels and single cards), and large quantities of each Panini card in all varieties of high-end PSA grades. A few bargains were likely to sneak through amid all of the lots.

I came away with a 1966 Panini PSA 8 (I sold one several months ago and regretted it, but bought this one for half of what the other one sold for!), and a few others. Happy with what I got for sure!

[Peter_Spaeth]

I am not expert on running auctions, but from a distance it seemed unwise to me to offer so many listings of the same cards simultaneously. Seems cannibalizing.

[D. Bergin]

Ahhh, he's bought some Ali cards from me throughout the years (mostly inexpensive oddball issues), and I always wondered if it was the football player.

[GasHouseGang]

I agree that he probably could have made more money if so many of the same card weren't offered at the same time. But some cards still brought really strong prices.

[scooter729]

Here is the link to the Ali boxing cards offered in Mile High - some awesome stuff in there....

[Exhibitman]

Well now is my chance to be a



It is a deep collection of very common mainstream cards. There are some very expensive cards there, but nothing I would chase because I know there will be more on eBay and in every auction in the future. There are a few tougher cards in there, like the 1965 Dutch trio, but that's really about it.

[Arazi4442]

I've got a couple nice Ali/Clay cards but have been looking for a nice Lampo and was pretty excited but ended up getting shut out. A little surprised the PSA 5 sold for nearly double the price of the 6. The centering on the 5 was better but had some printing issues. I might have thrown in another bid on the 6 but I was chasing something else and it closed on me

I was secretly hoping the Edizioni would fly under the radar a bit but absolutely not. $20k, nice price

[Exhibitman]

It is nice to see the 1960 Hemmets Journal get continued love. That has to be one of the great postwar RCs.