1952 Topps PSA 4 #332 Baritrome

[egri]

For anyone interested, here is the thread with the guy who was trying to go Hunt Brothers on this card. Spoiler alert: he's not actually related to Bartirome, though if eBay's sold listings are any indication, that hasn't stopped him from paying obscene prices for them.

[ALR-bishop]

Irv---if you search this forum section for 1952 Topps you will find several discussion of oddities in that set


http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=172391

http://www.sportscollectorsdigest.co...th-two-mantles
http://aug13.hugginsandscott.com/cgi...l?itemid=59354

[irv]

[QUOTE=1952boyntoncollector;1494249]

Originally Posted by irv

Short this card like crazy? Sorry, but does that mean underbid it or purchase as many as you could in order to shorten up supply to increase price?

No he is saying the card is going to decrease in price...and if there was a mechanism like the stock market...where you can sell a card now at current price and agree to buy it back in the future ...you would want the future price to be much less than that you are buying it today...that's generally what he means by shorting.....

I think your card is about a psa 3-4 if you want to make anything on the card I would get it graded now and sell it..or maybe put a BIN now it for for 700 or so and see who contacts you...it is very very possible in a year your card may only be worth 75-200 bucks in the open market in a year..

Thanks for the info 1952, I appreciate it.

Going by the link and the rating this guys card received, I was thinking mine would be at least a 5, but being new to all this and unsure what exactly is used to determine a grading, I will trust that you are likely in the ballpark?
http://api.viglink.com/api/click?for...UAAOSwLnlWmIhS

Originally Posted by egri

For anyone interested, here is the thread with the guy who was trying to go Hunt Brothers on this card. Spoiler alert: he's not actually related to Bartirome, though if eBay's sold listings are any indication, that hasn't stopped him from paying obscene prices for them.

Holy crap!! Like what was said when I briefly opened the link, "That guy must have a lot of relatives"!

Does beg the question, if his story is fake, why is he so interested in all the 332's he can get his hands on?

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

Irv---if you search this forum section for 1952 Topps you will find several discussion of oddities in that set


http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=172391

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=172391

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=172391

Thanks ALR, I will be sure to check those out,

[egri]

[QUOTE=irv;1494258]

Originally Posted by 1952boyntoncollector

Holy crap!! Like what was said when I briefly opened the link, "That guy must have a lot of relatives"!

Does beg the question, if his story is fake, why is he so interested in all the 332's he can get his hands on?

There was some speculation about that towards the end of the thread; if you've got a solid half hour/45 minutes free, it's worth a read. The leading theory seemed to be that 1) he was trying to corner the market on that card, and 2) cornering the market never works out.

[irv]

[QUOTE=egri;1494266]

Originally Posted by irv

There was some speculation about that towards the end of the thread; if you've got a solid half hour/45 minutes free, it's worth a read. The leading theory seemed to be that 1) he was trying to corner the market on that card, and 2) cornering the market never works out.

I never read it yet, but seeing as it is 11 pgs long, I may not, LOL.

[1952boyntoncollector]

h***h has joined the party on that card...

[egri]

We really need a popcorn emoticon for occasions such as this.