Heritage Auction pickups from last night....

[CMIZ5290]

Boy there were some nice T206s, it looks like I won the SGC 84 Johnny Evers (Blue). I was very surprised to find that out waking up this morning, as I thought it went extremely cheap....The other ones I had bids on, not so lucky!

[Leon]

I was underbidder on a few things. My collecting focus is so narrow there was nothing I really needed for my collection. The things I was watching, for resale, went higher than resale prices I could pay.

[ullmandds]

nothing for me...seems like some pretty fair prices on rare 19th c cabinets...d304 cobb...e98 set. e99/100 near sets.

Still blows me away some BSF prices considering so many are out there!!!!

Congrats to all the winners!

[Matthew H]

Originally Posted by ullmandds

nothing for me...seems like some pretty fair prices on rare 19th c cabinets...d304 cobb...e98 set. e99/100 near sets.

Still blows me away some BSF prices considering so many are out there!!!!

Congrats to all the winners!

Which Cabinets went for pretty fair prices? I wasn't bidding/tracking them all but I thought the ones I was looking at went at or above what I thought they would. I bid on a few... Maybe I'm a cheap-o? My limited knowledge Could be wrong... but I think 300-700 for photos of common ball players in street clothes is quite a bit. I liked the Mutrie the most, mainly because I'm used to seeing him in street clothes. It still went for more than I wanted to pay. The higher-end stuff had strong prices... In my opinion.

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by Matthew H

Which Cabinets went for pretty fair prices? I wasn't bidding/tracking them all but I thought the ones I was looking at went at or above what I thought they would. I bid on a few... Maybe I'm a cheap-o? My limited knowledge Could be wrong... but I think 300-700 for photos of common ball players in street clothes is quite a bit. I liked the Mutrie the most, mainly because I'm used to seeing him in street clothes. It still went for more than I wanted to pay. The higher-end stuff had strong prices... In my opinion.

The N173 of Kelly was an unusually nice albumen image, in my opinion. I was the underbidder, and kind of regret not going a bit higher.

I thought the 1891 Joseph Hall Giants cabinet went high. It was also weird that they thought there would be argument over the missing '1' digit at the end of 1891. Perhaps they did that in order to make it seem unique, but Lew Lipset sold one of these a while back that had the entire '1891', and also almost an inch more of the top of the mount.

The other commons might have gone high because they were probably from one of the Ewings' estate.

[RCMcKenzie]

I was able to pick up the McAleer cabinet for under the estimate. The photography on it looks just like the Just So cards to me. I will post more opinions about it when I get it.

I was the underbidder on the Pelicans team cabinet and the Pelicans Ewing. I did manage to get the "Anon" Pelican player card, I'm hoping to ID it and will post more about it later. It looks like Farmer Vaughn and Ed Cartright are on the team card as well as J Ewing and the anon player I got. Maybe the whole team card can be identified, as many n172 subjects played for the 1887 Pelicans.

[big80s]

I thought there were some great buys to be had last night. I won the two lots I was most interested in, and ended up springing for a 3rd because I thought the price was right.

Congrats to the winners.

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by Leon

I was underbidder on a few things. My collecting focus is so narrow there was nothing I really needed for my collection. The things I was watching, for resale, went higher than resale prices I could pay.

But now maybe all the guys paying retail for large lots won't have any $$$ left for REA?

[MattyC]

I reeled in the D304 Cobb. I'm all about the image on this one. One of my all time favorite cards based on sheer aesthetics. A higher grade example would have depleted my war chest for REA, so low-grade was the move for me!

[cyseymour]

Originally Posted by MattyC

I reeled in the D304 Cobb. I'm all about the image on this one. One of my all time favorite cards based on sheer aesthetics. A higher grade example would have depleted my war chest for REA, so low-grade was the move for me!

I noticed that card, it is really nice. If I collected D cards, I would be all over that. Nice pickup.

[Runscott]

I keep trading/selling these when I get them - Leon's is a tough standard.

Maybe this one will hang around longer. Looking forward to seeing what it looks like in non-scan form:

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Runscott

I keep trading/selling these when I get them - Leon's is a tough standard.

Maybe this one will hang around longer. Looking forward to seeing what it looks like in non-scan form:

I actually had my eye on that one as a potential downgrade...and it wouldn't have been a big downgrade. I am not a high grade collector but the T205 Cobby is a stunning card when the aesthetics are there......I will never forget when I first saw the one I own, in Bryan Dec's case, at the first Oaks (RIP) show I did. I had almost no cash and I traded a set of Sawyer Biscuits cards +/- a few hundred dollars for it. I had to have it!!

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by Leon

I actually had my eye on that one as a potential downgrade..

You could say that about most items in my collection!

[Runscott]

Beautiful card...

[atx840]

All crazy cool items...congrats.

[Brian]

I was outbid. If anyone acquired the T211 Red Sun lot or the lot of 10 1923 World Series photos, I would be interested in one card and one photo, respectively, from those lots. Thanks, Brian

[h2oya311]

I picked this "beater" up...but it fills a big hole in my collection!

I was the underbidder on the 1915 Cracker Jack E. Roush PSA 7. I think that was one of the best values in the auction...

[ullmandds]

great deal on a few e107's!!!

[RCMcKenzie]

Todd, thanks. I was also bidding at one point on the Rembrandt J Ewing that you won. I thought you got a really good deal on that one. I find this type of auction format fun, but it can be difficult to organize the bidder page and figure out what items are ending and what items will continue on. I had thrown in some bids to reset the clock on some items that I ended up winning early.

On OldJudge's Pelican cabinet. I was trying to cross reference baseball-reference.com's 1887 Pelicans roster with the images from the OJ book to determine who was on the cabinet. I think top row player 3 may be Farmer Vaughn? and 2nd row 2nd player Cartright? If someone can identify the 1st player in the top row let me know. I could not find an image of that person to match with a name. There was a Jake Aydelotte who started the 3rd most games on the mound behind Abner Powell and John Ewing. I could not find any photos of Aydelotte as it looks like 1887 was his only full season on record.