Wow. E121 rarities.

kmac32 · #1 06-30-2014, 07:32 PM

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Originally Posted by old-baseball

That's good Ken. What else did you pick up?

Miller Huggins and Mike Gonzales

old-baseball · #2 06-30-2014, 07:41 PM

Huggins and Gonzales are both really tough. Very low graded population. I'm a bit surprised the Huggins didn't go for even more than it did.

I was just sitting here thinking about this guys strategy on these auctions. I think he might have been better off doing the auctions with some time in between. There were just so many scarcer cards so quickly, they might have sold for more with additional time between offering. Good for us collectors but maybe not as good for the seller. There were bargains everywhere on the type three reverses.

VoodooChild · #3 06-30-2014, 07:42 PM

Nice wins Ken!

Did anybody win the Rip Collins or steal that Tom Rodgers?

kmac32 · #4 07-01-2014, 09:33 PM

2 for e on auctions today. Picked up Nehf and Shawkey. Over the 3 days picked up 5 cards. My version of the "National" without even leaving my office.

VoodooChild · #5 07-01-2014, 09:45 PM

Nice pick-ups Ken! I blew my budget on the Baker but still tried to win some of the rare ones unsuccessfully. I think this thread might have hyped the auctions. The prices today for the rare ones seemed higher than the past few days. I did pick-up the Pipp Type 3. I know it's not one of the tough cards but I have a Type 4 so I'm thinking I'll try for a back run someday.

I wish I would've won more but that was fun. When's the next time you guys think we'll see a group like that for sale?

kmac32 · #6 07-01-2014, 09:52 PM

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Originally Posted by VoodooChild

Nice pick-ups Ken! I blew my budget on the Baker but still tried to win some of the rare ones unsuccessfully. I think this thread might have hyped the auctions. The prices today for the rare ones seemed higher than the past few days. I did pick-up the Pipp Type 3. I know it's not one of the tough cards but I have a Type 4 so I'm thinking I'll try for a back run someday.

I wish I would've won more but that was fun. When's the next time you guys think we'll see a group like that for sale?

Was definitely better than the National for me. Trying to figure out who all the bidders involved were. Definitely some aggressive bids. I spent about what it would have cost me to go to the National before I bought anything. Guess thats a good deal without the stress of travel. :-)

Brian Van Horn · #7 07-01-2014, 10:19 PM

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rhettyeakley · #8 07-01-2014, 10:20 PM

I ended up with quite a few cards although I didn't pick up a single card off the wantlist (which is pretty small). I'm not sure we will ever see that many Type 3 cards come up for sale ever again (especially not all at the same time), they are actually very hard to find. I didn't pick up many rarities but picked up a lot of the regular E121's with the tougher back... this thread definitely caused the cards to go for much more today than the first day (the Roth alone went for $800+ and isn't as tough as the O'Leary, Baker, Gaston, Rogers and some of the tougher HOFers like Hoyt and Frisch--which were pretty good deals, especially the Frisch).

Of the tough guys I ended up with "Bill" Ryan, Cecil Causey, Harry Harper, and Emil Meusel. Unfortunately I didn't "need" any of them as I already had them as Type 2's in my collection.

BTW: We should start a list of the toughest E121's with their known quantities some time. It would be very enlightening. Obviously at the top of the list would be the O'Leary and Meadows (1 currently known of each) cards followed by the Gaston (2 currently known) and then Rogers (3 confirmed at this point) and others.

Brian Van Horn · #9 07-01-2014, 10:29 PM

Where does Sallee with ball end up on the rarity category?

rhettyeakley · #10 07-01-2014, 10:40 PM

Also, just wanted to point out that with this group and the ones I have studied previously I have now confirmed the existence of 75 cards with the Type 3 back. Assuming they issued 80 cards with that back (which may not be the case) there may only be a handful of "likelies" to add to the checklist in the future although we all can dream that some day the "other" Coach card of Burkett surfaces although I feel the most likely candidates for future discovery are Ross Youngs and Lou DeVormer (as they were later added to the E121-120 set).

My spreadsheet shows the following totals for the tough backs...

Type 2: 69 different confirmed
Type 3: 75 different confirmed
Type 4: 9 different confirmed