New Negro League memorabilia collector(s) in the market?

[aljurgela]

Looking forward to it my friend!! How much stuff did you consign, Derek?

[h2oya311]

Originally Posted by aljurgela

Looking forward to it my friend!! How much stuff did you consign, Derek?

all the team items...you'll recognize quite a few. Focusing on my individual player cards/photos collection.

[aljurgela]

Originally Posted by h2oya311

all the team items...you'll recognize quite a few. Focusing on my individual player cards/photos collection.

Always good to fine tune collecting! Best of luck to you Derek... can't wait to see what items made the catalogs! Looking forward to it.... will tell the wife that we need to cancel dinner reservations for the next few months to save the coin! Best Derek.... Al

[bcbgcbrcb]

Nice to see some new blood entering this segment of the hobby. At the same time, sad to hear, Derek, that you are letting go of all your Negro League team items, you had some really good stuff there.

When I was still doing the Hall of Fame Rookies collection, I actually took the opposite position when it came to looking for the ultra-scarce Negro League guys. I saw the Negro/Cuban/Puerto Rican team photo/postcard collectibles as an opportunity to fill multiple holes in my Hall of Fame collection with one purchase. As someone who had some disposable money to spend, but far from unlimited resources, this provided a solution for me to eventually reach my goal of having a career-contemporary item for every single member of the BB HOF. While I never quite reached the ultimate Rookie Card for each, I had some pretty early stuff as many of you know.

In my opinion, the team items still provide a great investment opportunity today with potentially multiple HOF'ers as well as the possibility of a big payoff in 2020 when it is believed that another group of Negro Leaguers could be enshrined in Cooperstown. Imagine, you have an early 1920's team photo with Dihigo, Torriente & Pop Lloyd and now, in 2020, Cannonball Redding is elected to the HOF and he's included in your team photo as well. Can you see some pretty significant immediate appreciation in value there?

[packs]

How about Perucho Cepeda? Think he'll ever get in?

[Scocs]

I don’t have that much experience in collecting Negro League cards, but over the course of several years I have found that many transactions of important cards and memorabilia are often not done publicly and out of the limelight. Collector to collector. And this is a great place to meet those collectors....

At least I’ve found this to be true since the Hake’s auctions of 2012-2013 where a lot of big ticket items were sold.

[bcbgcbrcb]

You’re exactly right, Scott. However, it came to light afterwards that the vast majority of those Hakes items that you mentioned all wound up in one collection. This collection was subsequently sold at Christie’s in two separate installments over 2016 and 2017.