Hobby history: Auction results 1977-78 (incl. 1952 Mantle), reported by Lew Lipset

[dzolot]

Your research and how your report it is just remarkable! Thank you for your contribution to this site, but more importantly to the hobby at large!!

[Jayjones82]

Amazing Stuff!

[Piratedogcardshows]

Great articles David. I find the name change from the first one to the second interesting.

[BeanTown]

Great read and thanks for posting. I didn't know Lew had an address in New York. I always thought he was in Arizona during that time frame. Loved the Exhibit article which I wish I had posted on another thread. It helps explain the difference between the 1925 and 1926 set. It wouldn't surprise me if a 1/3rd of the graded 1925 Exhibits were actually 26s.

[trdcrdkid]

Originally Posted by BeanTown

Great read and thanks for posting. I didn't know Lew had an address in New York. I always thought he was in Arizona during that time frame. Loved the Exhibit article which I wish I had posted on another thread. It helps explain the difference between the 1925 and 1926 set. It wouldn't surprise me if a 1/3rd of the graded 1925 Exhibits were actually 26s.

I'm not positive, but I think Lew didn't move to Arizona until at least the 1980s. I can ask him. He's actually a member here who has only posted twice but sometimes lurks. I sent him a link to this post.

Elwood Scharf did a long series of articles on Exhibit Cards in The Trader Speaks starting in January 1978. I can post the whole series if people think it would be worthwhile.

[toppcat]

Hi David-nice to meet you at the end of the N54 dinner! IIRC Scharf's Exhibit series didn't reach conclusion before TTS folded. I wonder if he finished it off in some other publication?

[trdcrdkid]

Originally Posted by toppcat

Hi David-nice to meet you at the end of the N54 dinner! IIRC Scharf's Exhibit series didn't reach conclusion before TTS folded. I wonder if he finished it off in some other publication?

It was a pleasure to meet you in person too, Dave, however briefly. Hopefully we can talk more at a future National.

I've just looked, and it appears that Scharf did write his Exhibit series, which included some articles on postcards, semi-regularly from January 1978 until almost the end of TTS. (It was an expansion of a series he had originally written as typewritten supplements to The Ballcard Collector starting in 1971.) In the July 1983 TTS, Dan Dischley's third-to-last issue, Scharf had an Exhibit article which he said was the 38th he had written, and he said there was enough material for three or four more. I haven't had time to dig out the August 1983 issue, but Scharf did not have an article in the September 1983 issue (Dischley's last), or in any of the six issues published by Sonny Jackson before it folded. If he did complete the series, I assume it would have been in either Sports Collector's Digest or Baseball Hobby News. I'll try to look at those one of these days when I have time.

[irv]

Originally Posted by dzolot

Your research and how your report it is just remarkable! Thank you for your contribution to this site, but more importantly to the hobby at large!!

I agree!

I particularly enjoyed reading about the 52 Topps Mantle card and how he thought it should level out between $250 and $500.

Out of curiosity, how does that money compare to today's?