Anyone ever tried to Corner the Market on a Particular Card?

[bwbc917]

I created a Bumpus Jones postcard by enlarging him in the 1894 Sioux City team picture. That's the picture that Baseball Reference is currently using. Then I commissioned artist Monty Sheldon to do a Bumpus card 1 of 1. He used an 1898/9 team photo for the pose and came up with this



https://goo.gl/images/Z7QnsY



So I guess you can say I cornered the market, albeit a VERY small one.

[ullmandds]

I have the market cornered on t216 blank back dots miller cards.

[bnorth]

Bought 2 1989 Fleer Randy Johnson Marlboro error cards for $2.71 today because they had them listed as the regular corrected version. A black box version and the darker red tint version that you can still see the Marlboro sign.

I don't have the market cornered but have way more than enough of every version to make them worthless if I even sold 10% of the ones I have.

[Yoda]

Originally Posted by ullmandds

I have the market cornered on t216 blank back dots miller cards.

Just like Charley Brown has the market cornered for all Joe Gobezenski (?) cards.

[mattsey9]

Originally Posted by Yoda

Just like Charley Brown has the market cornered for all Joe Gobezenski (?) cards.

Not true!

[Fred]

I've read posts by two people that posted something different than I thought they would for this particular thread.... John and Bob .... still waiting to hear a good story about how many cards you have of a certain player from a certain set.... I'm not sure I'd call it hoarding... I'd call it an obsession.... kind of like the guy that likes that mustachioed player in the T206 set.... either of you guys gonna fess up to having more cards of a certain player from a certain issue?

[z28jd]

Originally Posted by Fred

I've read posts by two people that posted something different than I thought they would for this particular thread.... John and Bob .... still waiting to hear a good story about how many cards you have of a certain player from a certain set.... I'm not sure I'd call it hoarding... I'd call it an obsession.... kind of like the guy that likes that mustachioed player in the T206 set.... either of you guys gonna fess up to having more cards of a certain player from a certain issue?

I have over 3,000 rookie cards of Omar Vizquel, if that's what you mean? Some guy was taking 1989 Topps Traded sets, pulling the Griffey cards to get them graded, then selling off a couple of the stars cheap, and trashing the rest. I bought most of his Vizquel cards for about 10 cents each.

So if someone is looking for a 1989 TT Paul Kilgus or Randy Kutcher, they are a lot less common than the Griffey card because many thousands were trashed

[Exhibitman]

True market cornering, no. Closest I came was trying to get every 1928 Exhibit of my cousin that came up for sale but I quit after 8:










I've let a few slip past since.

Since 1 of 1 specimens are pretty regular occurrences in boxing, soccer and other global sports, especially from foreign issuers, in a sense anyone who collects actively in those areas has some markets cornered. For example, this is the only known specimen of a 1904 Sporting Life cabinet from the Jeffries-Munroe title fight:



This is the only known example of the 1938 NX5 American Sweets Joe Louis:



I don't know of any other complete runs of these:



Can't be too many of these floating around, either:

[bobbvc]

Originally Posted by bwbc917

I created a Bumpus Jones postcard by enlarging him in the 1894 Sioux City team picture. That's the picture that Baseball Reference is currently using. Then I commissioned artist Monty Sheldon to do a Bumpus card 1 of 1. He used an 1898/9 team photo for the pose and came up with this



https://goo.gl/images/Z7QnsY




So I guess you can say I cornered the market, albeit a VERY small one.

Those are some NICE sleeves!