Winners announced! Closes tonight 6/28 Birmingham Auctioneers Pre War III

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

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So our Pre War Sports Cards& Memorabilia III is now running. Thanks to Leon and the many members who have shown us their support with bids, consignments and kind words!

This auction is bigger than our first two combined which is exciting for us as a company!

Kicks off with 5 Ty Cobb cards including a couple for the budget minded collector! All 3 of our Pre War auctions have kicked off with at least one Cobb and it's a tradition we'd like to continue, so let me know if you have any Cobb cards to consign. We'll give you a VERY solid deal!








We also have Cy Young, Walter Johnson, Lou Gehrig, Nap Lajoie, Christy Mathewson and tons more.

There are partial set breaks of both 1939 and 1941 Play Ball. The 1939's are super solid EX or better raw for the most part, so a great chance to grade and make money. The 1941's are more VG-EX and the Ted Williams is PSA 3.5



There's also a nice selection of silks, T3's, Blankets and other stuff that you don't see as frequently.



There is a nice bunch of Zeenut from 1919 - 1930's mostly sold by year.



A smattering of Pre-War publications like Football Illustrated, Baseball Magazine, Who's Who in Baseball and more. Along with some amazing vintage photos including Conlons!



A decent chunk of a T201 set with about half of them graded as high as "5" over 100 lots of T205's and over 100 more T206's

A nice selection of boxing odds and ends with T218's, T220's, Ogdens and more.

Please check us out. We have NO RESERVES EVER and our starting bids are all between $1 and $25. We pride ourselves on being a real auction and not a retail sale masquerading as an auction. We let the market tell us what the values are, we don't try and make the market give us the value we think something deserves!

The auction ending starts at 10pm eastern 6/28. at 10pm every item receives a 15 minute clock unless that item has only bid, in which case that item is closed right at 10pm. If an item receives no bids in that 15 minutes it then closes. Every time an item receives a bid the clock resets to 15 minutes.

To bid on an item in extended bidding you must have bid on THAT ITEM prior to 10pm 6/28, so if you need to get place holder bids in I wouldn't wait until the last minute!


THE CONTEST We are trying to come up with a phrase that sums up what we think is our unique position of an auction that specializes in reaching the collector. We have many lots of singles that would be grouped by most, if not all, other auction companies. Our focus on trying to get cards to the end collector is what we're trying to encompass in a short phrase. Upper Deck had a great slogan with "The Collector's Choice" which obviously we can't use.

Post your ideas in this thread (If you've already emailed or posted elsewhere please add them here so I have them all in one spot) and the winner will receive $100 off their next purchase, or $100 off the total commission of their next consignment.

Thanks, and good luck!

[jcc6252]

Great auction, indeed! It fits the savvy trader/collector, so let's go with "The Trader's Advantage".

[gonzo]

I misread the thread title as “pre World War III” and I started to worry about what you know that I don’t!

Entry: “It’s in the Cards”

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Originally Posted by gonzo

I misread the thread title as “pre World War III” and I started to worry about what you know that I don’t!

Entry: “It’s in the Cards”

Shhhhhh it's insider knowledge.

Seriously, was a legit LOL.

[KMayUSA6060]

Saw the part about having lots as singles instead of groups, and the first thing that came to mind was, "Single, no mingle"

A waste of an entry most likely but I got a good laugh. Great auction!

[T206Collector]

I've migrated my list of suggestions...

“Cards for Collectors”
“The Collector’s Auction” or “The Collector’s Auction House”
“Cards for Every Collector” or “Cards for Every Collection”
“Helping Grow Collections Since 2018.”
“Cards for the Casual and Serious Collector”
“Is Now, Always Has Been, Always Will Be, The Best Scrap Tobacco!”
“You Keep Collecting, We’ll Find The Cards For You!”
“For the Serious Collector”
“For What You Collect” or “It’s What You Collect”
“Sick Cards for Healthy Collections”
“Filling Wantlists Since 2018”
“The Choice of Collectors”
“The Choice of Consignors and Collectors”
“Casual Cards for the Serious Collector”

[brianp-beme]

I have migrated my 100+ possible slogans from the other thread, and added a new one.

"Focus on Collecting and Collectors"

"Investing in Collectors"

"Collecting Collectors"

"Collect Direct"

"Collecting Schmellecting" (ok, this one was just for fun)

"Bringing Collecting to Collectors"

"Collector's Forum"

"Collections to Collectors"

"Collector Central"

"Collector's Warehouse"

"Collector Depot"

"The Collector's Gavel"

"Collector Valet"

and a new one,

"Collecting Collector's Collections"


Brian

[GeoPoto]

Total Cards

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[DeanH3]

THE CONTEST We are trying to come up with a phrase that sums up what we think is our unique position of an auction that specializes in reaching the collector. We have many lots of singles that would be grouped by most, if not all, other auction companies. Our focus on trying to get cards to the end collector is what we're trying to encompass in a short phrase. Upper Deck had a great slogan with "The Collector's Choice" which obviously we can't use.

Post your ideas in this thread (If you've already emailed or posted elsewhere please add them here so I have them all in one spot) and the winner will receive $100 off their next purchase, or $100 off the total commission of their next consignment.

Thanks, and good luck![/QUOTE]

Scott,

I think you may have already had it. My suggestions for what your stated goal was.

Cards for the End Collector

Or

Cardboard for the End Collector

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Don't forget about bidding in the auction!

Still tons of bargains the entire selection of raw T3's at less than the amount of the contest prize, tons of 1939 and 1941 Play Balls with loads of HOF'ers, many in EX or better with high numbers and tons more!

[nat]

Birmingham Auctioneers: Finding homes for cards since 1983.

Edit: or just "finding homes for cards"

[brianp-beme]

I had a couple of more slogans ready, but when I woke up this morning this one pushed them out of my head, and it is just a slight variation of one I already posted:

"From Collectors to Collections"

Brian

[esd10]

Forgotten greats auctions

Collector Shoebox auctions

Grandpa's attic auctions

[joejo20]

I am sorry if these may have already been used

“For the collector at heart”

“Collectors focus”

“Collecting forward”

“Collecting forefront”

Joe


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[Vintagecatcher]

Birmingham Auctioneers....Where your "Singles" become Home Runs!

Patrick

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by Vintagecatcher

Birmingham Auctioneers....Where your "Singles" become Home Runs!

Patrick

That's a very good one, maybe even good enough to be the winner. I would slightly adjust it to "Where Singles become Home Runs"

Brian

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Poll now live.

[brianp-beme]

I voted for "Where Your Singles become Home Runs", but a slight variation (what are cards/slogans without variations?) could be considered..."Turning Singles into Home Runs".

Or "Turning Your Singles into Home Runs"

Brian (I suffer from constant Slogan Tinkering Syndrome)

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

So the run away winner is "Where your singles become home runs" which I would have tweaked to "Where our singles become your home runs" But even though I really like it, it is a little limited. We don't sell only singles, or even only cards for that matter. However since it won the poll the submitter, vintagecatcher, gets $100 credit to be spent at the auction that closes Sunday. But that leaves me still needing a slogan.

My initial 2nd choice was The Choice of Collectors, but an attorney friend advised me that it may be too similar to Upper Deck's The Collectors Choice. So I'm going to tweak one and make The Collector Connection, The Collector's Connection,and award a $100 Credit to brianp-beme (almost inevitable with the 18 million submissions lol)

Finally we didn't get crazy scientific just wrote the voters names on a slip of paper and drew one. Congrats and a $50 credit to Toledo Mudhen.

Remember these credits are for the auction that ends Sunday, so if you're not already registered do so soon! Please use your Net54 name as your username to make it easier to track who is getting the credit.

Thanks to everyone for participating and please check out the auction (kinda the point of all this) still a lot of great bargains especially Goudey and Play Ball HOF'ers!

[brianp-beme]

Thanks Scott for the contest and allowing me to spread slogans around like they are manure. Just be thankful, because you could have ended up stuck with "Collecting Schmellecting".

But seriously, it is cool that I had a part in 'branding' your auction house, and will be on the lookout for the tweaked slogan in your logo and hobby advertising.

And I certainly will take advantage of the auction credit...there are multiple lots that I have my eye on. This type of auction allows a Collector like myself Connect with the Cards I want.

Brian (I have always been one to Connect/Collect the dots)

[Vintagecatcher]

Thanks Scott and those who voted!

Scott, I'll email you my user name since I have already registered and have been bidding in the current action.

Thanks again,

Patrick

[Batjac1]

Thanks Scott, I did great, and my great grandfathers cards are in the hands of folks who will enjoy them more than me. Hopefully they'll last another 110 years. I highly recommend consigning with Scott. He drove to Milford PA just to meet me and pick up the cards. This is a totally unsolicited testimonial... My singles really did become home runs...