B & L Pick-Ups

[bcbgcbrcb]

Now that it's over (or at least rumor has it that it is over), how did everyone do last night?

I was only after one item, the Clarke brothers cabinet card but, as usual, my item more than tripled in price during the extended bidding from $733 to $2,500+ and ended up being out of my price range in the end.

[rainier2004]

Missed these in the extended bidding as well but if someone won and wants to sell a couple i needed 5 in the lot....Maybe next time

[gnaz01]

Got the 1910 Ty Cobb Notebook Cover, Lot #8. Have a Wagner of the same series, and I love this image of Cobb.

[npa589]

I got the Moran T204 blank back, and the lot of 3 T206 PSA 5's (Schulte front, Reulbach glove showing, and Pfeffer Sov 460).

[Bicem]

I won the $-Shield postcard of Hoffman.

If anyone has any of these for sale please let me know!

[sycks22]

Got a good price on the t204 Ball PSA 6 and n300 ward.

[Bosox Blair]

I managed to get 3 single card lots, including the E95s of Crawford and Bender (which I felt were nice values).

In general, I thought the prices were strong. I was bidding on the E106 Speaker, but it went about 30% higher than my price point (and what the exact card sold for a couple years ago). Likewise a few other cards I tracked sold for quite a bit more than the exact card sold for in the last couple years.

Having said that, there were a few bargains too.

As for the fomat of the auction...I like it. The lots that got my primary attention, I got outbid on. So I was able to move to other lots in O/T...ones I did not pay close attention to earlier. Better for the consignors and the auction house to have someone increase the price realized on other lots, rather than walking away from the auction with money to spend and no options open for bidding.

Though I can understand that a post 5:30AM EST ending is a bit much for some bidders in the East...

[Ronnie]

I won the Koester Bread McGraw SGC 60.....my first Koester Bread card.

[Ronnie]

Now that I got around to reading some older threads on the Koester cards, how can I be sure that this is a Koester card vs a w575-1? If SGC, as an authenticatrion expert, was confident enough to call it a Koester, then I would think there is some difference when compared to the w575, although past posts appear to indicate otherwise. I'd appreciate thoughts on this. Thanks, Ron

[glchen]

Originally Posted by Ronnie

Now that I got around to reading some older threads on the Koester cards, how can I be sure that this is a Koester card vs a w575-1? If SGC, as an authenticatrion expert, was confident enough to call it a Koester, then I would think there is some difference when compared to the w575, although past posts appear to indicate otherwise. I'd appreciate thoughts on this. Thanks, Ron

I'm curious to know this also. I cracked out an SGC W575-1 Ruth, and sent it into PSA, and they wouldn't holder it due to fragility, but called it a W575-1. I tried it again, and again, PSA would not holder, but this time called it a Koester.

[rhettyeakley]

Ronnie & Gary, the Koesters vs W575-1 debate is very complicated but it can be taken on a case by case basis depending on the subject. According to my research the McGraw card is easily identified as a Koesters if it is the "Standing pose" (not the later portrait) with the position on bottom being "Mgr." as opposed to "Manager" on front. The change of designation was done for the Koesters promotion...thus, with the McGraw as long as it is the standing pose and has "Mgr." on front it is a Koesters...

Here is my copy...


Hope this helps,
-Rhett

[glchen]

Here's my W575-1 Ruth (pre-crackout) that I picked up from collectauctions. Note that SGC got the flip wrong (Babe vs George Ruth).

For the topic at hand, I picked up 3 lots (Harrington Gehrig, W514 lot, Overland Candy lot) from B&L thanks to the auction format and being on the West Coast. I was basically planning on sitting this one out, but I logged in late Saturday night, and these lots were just too tempting. The ending of the auction went very late. I was worried that it would be like the recent Mears auction that went into the morning EST, and had the East Coast bidders restart the bidding on the lots.

[deadballpaul]

I got this one.

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[kcohen]

Picked up this N284 Latham. Not normally a fan of this issue but I like this one since it kind of resembles the player it depicts.

Another very nice B&L auction. Nice work Scott and Leon.

[Rich Klein]

Nice when you are local and the shipping is free

Rich

[Bosox Blair]

A few cards here - thanks to Leon and Scott for another great auction: