First Copeland Collection Pedigree Emerges from the Hobby Shadows

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Originally Posted by clamendo

I spoke to a VP at Soethby’s who helped me decode the sticker that was present on the original album/pages. The original albums were kept in tact with the cards undisturbed for thirty years housed in the 4-pocket black pages that were Made in Germany. Very distinctive. The numerator is the auction lot, the denominator is number of pieces. Sotheby’s went into their archives and retrieved the original auction invoice. The in-person purchaser wrote me very nice letter of provenance. It had to be a “one and done” submission. Hats off the Jackie Curiel who relayed all my backup to first Joe Orlando, then Steve Sloan, then Kevin Lenane. They take pedigrees pretty seriously.

I saw someone post about his T206 collection. So, no cracking out and resubmitting, improving. I almost kept them in the original album, almost just graded the stars, almost just the HoFers, but after talking to a lot of people (like Scott Brockelman, Gary Nuchereno, Paul Kaufman, Jim Ragsdale) I decided to grade the whole shot. $5K This way there would be no questions.


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That's pretty amazing provenance!

I've got a piece that I'm confident is from the auction, but haven't been able to convince PSA about it. Although I haven't worked that hard at it either!

Scans from the item and from the catalog below. Due to the rarity of this item, particularly with the size and full hot dogs on the side, that alone might be good enough. But when you add in the very obvious and oddly shaped scratch from just above the "A" in "trading" would seem to make it conclusive to me.