T213 near set break in REA

[RCMcKenzie]

Some of you may know that I have collected all 3 Coupon sets since the early eighties. I'm one card away from completing T213-1, and need less than a handful of cards to finish 2 and 3.

I made a few upgrades and added 1 to the checklist tonight, Sweeney Richmond. Still have 4 to go. 2 I passed on tonight and was the underbidder.

Was this Steve's near set? I know Rick M has worked T213-2 for a long time also, and Mark M has the whole set from back in the day. I've seen him post that he had a breeze putting it together for a song back in the day.

Any thoughts on this auction? I almost missed it. It went off with little fan-fare, and many tough cards went cheap. Did y'all win any?

[Aaron Seefeldt]

I didn’t buy anything in the auction but I cannot believe some of the prices including the t213-2 Murray Chicago… why so high?

https://bid.robertedwardauctions.com...?itemid=125335

[RCMcKenzie]

Aaron, thanks for asking, it's also why I'm asking who all is collecting this set. I was the under-bidder, and I think if I had skipped the auction, it would have sold for around $500.

[RCMcKenzie]

The market cannot absorb a T213-2 set break. For example, for $96 all in with juice, I picked up an upgrade to my avatar, Murray KC. A collection sold by HA earlier this year in BVG holders had 5 or so KC's, but it's a tough card, or was. Murray Chicago has 3 on sgc pop and 1 on psa. A difficult card that I needed to complete a set that the general public has no value on.

[ullmandds]

Originally Posted by RCMcKenzie

The market cannot absorb a T213-2 set break. For example, for $96 all in with juice, I picked up an upgrade to my avatar, Murray KC. A collection sold by HA earlier this year in BVG holders had 5 or so KC's, but it's a tough card, or was. Murray Chicago has 3 on sgc pop and 1 on psa. A difficult card that I needed to complete a set that the general public has no value on.

Prices seemed quite low for the most part.

[Lobo Aullando]

Originally Posted by ullmandds

Prices seemed quite low for the most part.

I'm puzzled about the Tinker that went for $85+20%. Rough, sure, but it's not like it was torn in half or anything. I only picked up the nice looking Summers because I merely wanted a type card from this set. Might be a missed flipping opportunity there.

[Leon]

+1. Nice set but not a ton of collectors are doing the whole set.
Here is my type(s)

Originally Posted by RCMcKenzie

The market cannot absorb a T213-2 set break. For example, for $96 all in with juice, I picked up an upgrade to my avatar, Murray KC. A collection sold by HA earlier this year in BVG holders had 5 or so KC's, but it's a tough card, or was. Murray Chicago has 3 on sgc pop and 1 on psa. A difficult card that I needed to complete a set that the general public has no value on.

[RCMcKenzie]

In the other REA thread, a poster mentioned that prices would have been higher if the auction were curated. For T213-2 it would have helped a great deal to have descriptions that highlighted the rare cards, like Tinker bat on Nat, or Schmidt Mobile, and so on.

[brianp-beme]

Just noticed Rob's post above mine. I basically said the same thing about the Murray KC version, so now I made an edit so it is just these words that seemingly intend to go on forever and ever and ever....

Brian

[RCMcKenzie]

Originally Posted by brianp-beme

Just noticed Rob's post above mine. I basically said the same thing about the Murray KC version, so now I made an edit so it is just these words that seemingly intend to go on forever and ever and ever....

Brian

Brian, put your original post back, I thought you had me on mute, or were just trying to translate my William Carlos Williams style of modernist, stream-of-consciousness posting.

Here's another example of a card that went very cheap. Baker Phila--13 graded on psa and sgc. SGC 10 went for $108. I did not bid because I have a higher grade example. Baker NY also has 13 combined pop. I don't have it, and was underbidder to $1110 for a PSA 1.

I'm almost finished with the set, so I'm glad other collectors like it.

[wnp22]

Was able to win the Schlei batting. My first T213! I was excited when it came up, and was ecstatic to be able to snag it with what was going to be my final bid. Grateful to be able to add it to my Memphis collection!

[RCMcKenzie]

Congrats, Nick. That's a nice one. PSA 2 is high grade for this set. What I like about the set are all the possible team captions. It's incredible how important baseball was at the time, that the printers went to the trouble to update the teams for a cigarette prize insert.

[jingram058]

Originally Posted by wnp22

Was able to win the Schlei batting. My first T213! I was excited when it came up, and was ecstatic to be able to snag it with what was going to be my final bid. Grateful to be able to add it to my Memphis collection!

Congratulations Nick!

I have a modest collection of Memphis stuff. Mainly memorabilia, but a couple of cards, including a Babb Red Sun that I picked up years ago.

[Sean]

Originally Posted by RCMcKenzie

Some of you may know that I have collected all 3 Coupon sets since the early eighties. I'm one card away from completing T213-1, and need less than a handful of cards to finish 2 and 3.

I made a few upgrades and added 1 to the checklist tonight, Sweeney Richmond. Still have 4 to go.

Rob, besides Rhodes, whom are you missing.

[RCMcKenzie]

Originally Posted by Sean

Rob, besides Rhodes, whom are you missing.

Sean, thanks for asking. For 1910 T213-1, I only need Bob Rhoades. (It looks like the T206 with the glove at chest).Around 12 years ago, I posted my want-list of the final dozen or so that I needed, and the board helped me find every card except Rhoades. I've only needed the Rhoades to finish the set for about 8 years. I know there should be at least 3-5 examples out there, maybe more.

For T213-2, I need 4 cards and for T213-3, I need 3. I'd rather not say which ones I need on these 2 sets, but I have probably talked about most of them before. Rob

[hcv123]

As to why the T213's get so little love - they seem to have everything one would want in a nice prewar set - Low populations - even for the "common" cards - I don't think any have a combined PSA and SGC pop over 100 - Many with single digit pops. tons of variations - a great group of HOFers led by 2 Cobb's and count me in the group that loves the blue names and glossy sheen on the card fronts! I grabbed the group from Heritage recently with tons of rarities and felt like I stole a bunch of the Pirates from REA.

[raulus]

Originally Posted by hcv123

As to why the T213's get so little love - they seem to have everything one would want in a nice prewar set - Low populations - even for the "common" cards - I don't think any have a combined PSA and SGC pop over 100 - Many with single digit pops. tons of variations - a great group of HOFers led by 2 Cobb's and count me in the group that loves the blue names and glossy sheen on the card fronts! I grabbed the group from Heritage recently with tons of rarities and felt like I stole a bunch of the Pirates from REA.

Maybe they're just an undiscovered set that will explode in value in the next few years when the market finally wakes up to them, and they become the next "in" set.

[IMAXMAX]

was happy to pick up all the Prince Hal T213-2 cards in the sale