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[barrysloate]

The baseball card hobby is certainly due for a correction as prices are insanely high.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

The baseball card hobby is certainly due for a correction as prices are insanely high.

The only prewar card I have followed in the last year is the T206 Red Cobb. The price on it has been dropping like a rock off a cliff. About 8 months ago you couldn't buy a complete beater for $1500, I know I was trying. Now I have seen much nicer examples selling for under $1000. Have no idea how the higher graded red Cobbs are doing.

[Leon]

I follow red cobbs a little bit too. Just like any art piece it is about the aesthetics. The best specimens for the grade haven't gone down in value that I have seen. A 1.5 should be around 1500 dollars......show me as many like this and I will buy all you have at that price. IT is true that the lesser looking ones might take a dip...but the best ones, I haven't seen it yet.
As for the subject, I also see some similarities in the hobbies.

Originally Posted by bnorth

The only prewar card I have followed in the last year is the T206 Red Cobb. The price on it has been dropping like a rock off a cliff. About 8 months ago you couldn't buy a complete beater for $1500, I know I was trying. Now I have seen much nicer examples selling for under $1000. Have no idea how the higher graded red Cobbs are doing.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by Leon

I follow red cobbs a little bit too. Just like any art piece it is about the aesthetics. The best specimens for the grade haven't gone down in value that I have seen. A 1.5 should be around 1500 dollars......show me as many like this and I will buy all you have at that price. IT is true that the lesser looking ones might take a dip...but the best ones, I haven't seen it yet.
As for the subject, I also see some similarities in the hobbies.

That's a beautiful card, would have to get real lucky to find one like that for $1500 when I was looking. My next bigger(for me) card purchase is going to be a red Cobb with a Old Mill back. Waiting for the latest scandal to get over with hopes the market crashes hard.

The car thing is kinda simular but the terminology is different. I had a very interesting childhood and 20's. I know A LOT about cars like that Corvette. Like altered cards you need to find someone that knows very little about them to sell altered cars.

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

God I'm getting paranoid. That gorgeous 1.5 is very short.

[steve B]

Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards

God I'm getting paranoid. That gorgeous 1.5 is very short.

It may be oversize, as it's in a sleeve. I think the holder is a bit big to take the sleeve.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by steve B

It may be oversize, as it's in a sleeve. I think the holder is a bit big to take the sleeve.

It is oversized. That is one reason I bought it.

[drcy]

Originally Posted by bnorth

That's a beautiful card, would have to get real lucky to find one like that for $1500 when I was looking. My next bigger(for me) card purchase is going to be a red Cobb with a Old Mill back. Waiting for the latest scandal to get over with hopes the market crashes hard.

The car thing is kinda simular but the terminology is different. I had a very interesting childhood and 20's. I know A LOT about cars like that Corvette. Like altered cards you need to find someone that knows very little about them to sell altered cars.

A problem I have with current grading standards is that card gets a Fair

[Directly]

Originally Posted by bnorth

The only prewar card I have followed in the last year is the T206 Red Cobb. The price on it has been dropping like a rock off a cliff. About 8 months ago you couldn't buy a complete beater for $1500, I know I was trying. Now I have seen much nicer examples selling for under $1000. Have no idea how the higher graded red Cobbs are doing.

Just last week the T206 Cobb's were trending on PSA Price Guide--
Red portrait --PR1--$800 to VG/Ex4 $4500.00 showing Green + up across the board, can a PSA 4 be bought at that level?

Ruth and Gehrig Goudy's appear to be trading up too.