Anybody here win the KBats team card?

[bcbgcbrcb]

I guess I'm in the minority and don't collect these so admittedly don't know much about them but the card doesn't look legitimate to me.

[Bicem]

Had the same feeling Phil. Never owned one though.

[canjond]

$7k snipe was not enough.

[cockrellcollection]

Looks like somebody has a nice one to add to the best pickups of 2013 thread!

[Bored5000]

Originally Posted by bcbgcbrcb

I guess I'm in the minority and don't collect these so admittedly don't know much about them but the card doesn't look legitimate to me.

I saw the card on eBay a couple days ago and wondered if it was real. Another copy of the card sold for $13K at REA earlier this year. I know several of the posters in this thread are far more knowledgeable than I am, but I was shocked that a card like that would show up raw on eBay.

[philliesphan]

My snipe, alas, also did not register.

I don't have any of the Team Cards myself, just a lone KBat cabinet team card [e.g. slightly larger]

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[autograf]

Looks good to me. Had an Athletics once I bought from Barry Sloate.......

[barrysloate]

Originally Posted by autograf

Looks good to me. Had an Athletics once I bought from Barry Sloate.......

Have no memory of it Tom

Do you remember the year you bought it?

[autograf]

Circa 1994-1995-1996. It was from a typed sale list....3-4 pages. Bought that and another card for about $4K or so. Can't remember the other card though...it was about G to GVG overall but nice picture.

[Joe_G.]

This auction did have some red flags but I believe the card to be real and someone got a good, not great, deal. There have been some superior examples that have surfaced. The known population of the Detroit K-Bats cards (to me) has doubled in the last couple years (3 => 6) and they nearly all have amazing photo quality. The 1887 Detroit team photo utilized is also fairly common in that Frank Tomlinson (Tomlinson Studio) sold it in many different formats. Tomlinson marketed the Championship team pic Nationally through newspaper ads and must have produced a healthy quantity, many of which have stood the test of time.

Congrats to the new owner.

[barrysloate]

Originally Posted by autograf

Circa 1994-1995-1996. It was from a typed sale list....3-4 pages. Bought that and another card for about $4K or so. Can't remember the other card though...it was about G to GVG overall but nice picture.

There were a lot of really good things on those sales lists, stuff that was so much easier to find back then. And I could sell multi-thousand dollar items without even showing a picture. Now you can't even sell a ten dollar card without a high- res scan.