1893 Young Autographed Cabinet

[mrreality68]

Originally Posted by paul

Not to hijack this thread, but I just took a look at the auction. The most valuable item in the auction, according to Heritage's estimates, is a Tom Brady rookie at 1.2 million. Compare that to the Young at 250K. I don't know about you, but even if the Young autographs are fake, I'd still much rather have five of the Young cabinets (which of course don't exist in that quantity), instead of one Brady. I'll never understand modern collecting.

Well said and that Young has great eye appeal.

But there is money for some in those modern cards in higher grades and in the artificially limited numbers of cards

[Rhotchkiss]

I think the better question is whether I cash out my 401k to buy it?!?! Of course, I am just joking. I will just borrow against my house or my kids’ 529 plans.

[Fred]

OMG - who are we to question the authenticity of this signature. PSA has deemed it an authentic signature!

I have no opinion whether it is real or not. I would hope there were a lot of forensic checks done in the authentication process and the question in my head is "what idiot would ruin a cabinet of that quality (I'm being serious here) by forging a signature?"

[Fred]

Originally Posted by Rhotchkiss

I think the better question is whether I cash out my 401k to buy it?!?! Of course, I am just joking. I will just borrow against my house or my kids’ 529 plans.

That's the right idea!

Oh yeah - I thought that outing auctions was considered "rude" on this board. Yeah, not that many of us would be ponying up that kind of cabbage.