1976 Mastro auction

[trdcrdkid]

Here's an auction by Bill Mastro from the October 15, 1976 Sports Collector's Digest. I'm not sure whether this was his first auction of this size; I'm thinking probably not, because he had been active in the hobby for a while then, and always had sale ads in SCD around then. I wonder where that Uzit Tinker is now; there can't be too many of them out there.

[trdcrdkid]

OK, I knew I posted too soon, because the previous issue of SCD (9/30/76) had another auction by Mastro. In the issue before that (9/15/76), he had been selling a T206 set, minus, Wagner, Plank, and Magie, for $900. And in the issue before that (8/30/76), he wrote a column about his friendship with veteran collector Frank Nagy, whose daughter Mastro almost married. Our boy was all over SCD in the mid-70s, as I think I've mentioned before.

[ullmandds]

do you think mastro was looking to marry for the cards?

[trdcrdkid]

Originally Posted by ullmandds

do you think mastro was looking to marry for the cards?

Well, he did joke that that might be the only way he would get a T206 Wagner, so maybe... But then he bought a Wagner for $1500 in 1973 and at one point had two of them, so that probably caused him to lose interest in Nagy's daughter...

[Stonepony]

In retrospect you can almost feel the greed festering.

[ullmandds]

Originally Posted by Stonepony

In retrospect you can almost feel the greed festering.

yup!

[irishdenny]

Originally Posted by trdcrdkid

I wonder where that Uzit Tinker is now; there can't be too many of them out there.

I had one... back around 2001.
I was told by a Dear Friend
That He believed that it came from Black Mass,
"I think BM needs a new nickname "

I sold it on the BST...
So, a Net54'er was Mr. Tinker's Next Collector Protector!