Zimmer's Baseball Game

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Posted By: Butch & Co.

Murphy, great item, thanks for the pics. It's in exceptionally nice shape, the broken bat notwithstanding -- that should be an easy and inexpensive bit of restoration, so it should have next to zero impact on any auction price. Whether Zimmer's is the finest of all games is very much a matter of taste and opinion (we'd say it's the T206 Wagner of games, with all that implies), but Barry's right, the overall condition is key and yours is exemplary. Five figures should be a shoo-in.

We've seen or heard of only one reasonably complete example selling in the last eight years, and that one -- nice, but not as sweet as yours -- fetched $10,440. at REA not quite three years ago. Two sold at Hunt in the late '90s, but we don't have details on their condition. One brought $7,500. The other went off at $27,500. REA, Hunt, Mastro, or Lelands would be your target venue.

No opinion on the Utica scorecard nor the Negro Legends item, but the National punchboard, while collectible, is probably not a big-ticket number. Some rare or elaborately illustrated punchboards can reach or top $200., but this one's a sort of generic piece that would probably go for $20.-$40. tops. Just our opinion.