Scrapbook - Auction closed

[asphaltman]

- Scrapbook T206 lot- Best Offer


- I am selling these for the owner. However, he will have the final say if he's happy with the best price offered for the cards.

- Because of logistics and the owner being up in age, don't expect to have these cards for three or four weeks. Not much I can do about that.

- Before I got involved, he had one page of cards sent to a paper conservator to remove the cards without losing the backs. So, that page I have not seen first hand, just the picture he took (which is the last one on the second post, with one of the Cobb Red's and the Marquard portrait). Obviously I'd expect the cards on this page to be cleanly freed, but I do not know what methods a conservator uses...keep that in mind.

- There are currently nine cards that had already come out of the pages on their own or perhaps with a little help. Two of these are the Mathewsons. One of these does have slight paperloss on the back that is difficult to see from the picture.

- There are two Cobb red portraits, and again one is on the page that was sent to the conservator to remove. I'd suspect it will be removed fine, but as the buyer sight unseen, you should probably suspect it isn't removed fine.

- This lot is being sold as is. There are some decent looking cards, and some that look their age. There is glue that is evident on some of the fronts I see. That may soak off, from someone with much more experience than me. As far as the backs...who knows. I would suspect someone who is good at soaking these would have some fun.

- Again, sold as is means sold as is. I don't want someone having buyer remorse or telling me these cards aren't in as good as condition as someone thought. I tried to provide decent pictures other than the last pic on the last page of course that I didn't have access to. But I don't want to bother this man who's in his 80's and have to worry with getting someone's money back and deal with sending cards back to him. So again, SOLD AS IS.

- As far as what history I know, the owner is in his mid 80's. From what I gathered someone in his family found them in a closet or attic space amongst a pile of other stuff. The owner wasn't aware of them beforehand. But he believes either his father or his grandfather would have put this together.

- I am accepting best offers. Please don't email asking how much the owner would sell it for. Also, please don't email about breaking up the cards, he wants them to stay together.

- Please check the pictures carefully. 2 Cobbs, 2 Mattys, 1 Cy Young, 1 Walter Johnson, 1 Chance, 1 Flick, 1 Speaker, 2 Marquards, couple Southern Leaguers -

- If interested, please send an offer by email. It's fine if you want to send a private message here letting me know you've sent an email...but please send an actual email with your offer. I'll end up forwarding the owner the best offer in the end for him to consider.

- Again please understand even if the owner accepts an offer, it's likely I won't have these in hand to send to you until after the holidays. So no, I don't need payment right away. But please keep in mind if you're making an offer that when the holidays would be over I don't want to have to worry with someone wanting to make payments at that point.

- I'll accept offers until sometime mid-week. I don't mind telling someone their offer is low so that they can move on to something else or decide on raising their offer. I won't however tell anyone what the current high offer is. That's just not fair to the person with the current best offer.

My email is cardstokeep@aol.com

- Please ask any questions necessary.