Card Collector's Bulletin, 2/1/55 -- Old Judge article, auction

[trdcrdkid]

Now that I look at the auction listings again, I don't think the numbers in parentheses refer to number of duplicates. In lot 160 he specifies "9 excellent, 1 duplicate", and in several of the lots he specifies "assorted", with no correlation to whether there is a number in parentheses, including lot 159 which says "158 (9) assorted, dups".

Assuming that the first number for each lot is the total number of cards, and based on the prices realized for this auction, here are the per-card values for the baseball sets in 1955:

T200: 85 cents
T202: 15 cents
T205: 7 cents
T206: 3 cents
T207: 20 cents
N172: 32 cents
N690 Kalamazoo Bats: $1.43 (I assume that N680 is a typo for N690)

He also had 3 N284s lumped together in a lot with 4 N508s (women playing baseball), which sold for $2.30, or 33 cents a card.

T218s were going for about 4 cents, T220s for 5 to 7 cents.

[Leon]

n172 Spotted Ties- - "all have a rather ragged looking necktie" ....classic....

Thanks for posting this CCB...

[oldjudge]

Not so ragged, LOL

[Leon]

Originally Posted by oldjudge

Not so ragged, LOL

A most beautiful card, if I might say. I thought you (and a few others) would snicker at that comment concerning the ragged ole ties.