How do you price old newspapers with Baseball related articles ?

[benjulmag]

This is the link to the 1909 Sporting Life that had the T206 ad that pictured Wagner. https://auction.lelands.com/bids/bidplace?itemid=88843

The lot was the entire issue, and I was surprised it did not sell for more.

As has been said, some of these vintage newspapers contain hidden gems and often sell under the radar.

[TUM301]

Like them and think they look great framed in the hobby room. That Ruth Sporting News is nice. Enclosed is one of my favorite pieces, The Boston Post`s cover story resulting from Jackson`s and Cicotte`s 1`st grand jury testimony in Sept. 1920 (the 1`st gambling admittance). The rest is history.....
Boston Post Headlines, September 29`th 1920 by Hugh Murphy, on Flickr

[irishdenny]

Some of these are worth a little bit... (:

[kevlar7]

Originally Posted by benjulmag

This is the link to the 1909 Sporting Life that had the T206 ad that pictured Wagner. https://auction.lelands.com/bids/bidplace?itemid=88843

The lot was the entire issue, and I was surprised it did not sell for more.

As has been said, some of these vintage newspapers contain hidden gems and often sell under the radar.

The fact that publications like this were not made to survive makes them more desirable to me. Imagine how many issues like this were thrown out because the paper disintegrated or because the issue didn't have a major star on the cover. I believe the value of this issue is underpriced for the history it contains.

[jbsports33]

I have been selling paper and ephemera for a long time and paper stuff always gets the lowest prices - if you look hard enough there some really good vintage items out there. Newspaper can go for the least amount unless big names are on the front covers. Programs and photos do better, newspaper stuff can be tough. I had some really nice stuff from 1967 Red Sox and I thought it would sell at decent prices - got less than 100.00 for 12 newspapers. Now prewar can be different, but even some of the stuff from the 1920s that shows up often sells for maybe 20.00 or 30.00 a newspaper unless real bigs names are on it. The good thing sense you asked, is this stuff is more affordable compared to cards, so if you find something cheap and it's nice buy it! All this type of stuff is going to get harder to find. Ads with cards or baseball can be very good can be different as you can see - still ok prices!

Jimmy