T206 "Magie" Error Prices

[Bridwell]

I think that a legit card of Magie is a great investment. T206 is such a well-known set to collect, that won't change in 20 years. Now that PSA 8 Magie might be a bit suspect. The upper right edge narrows a bit, like somebody shaved a little off the edge to make the corner look better perhaps. Hard to say but for that price you'd want to be sure.

[brianp-beme]

We should not be rewarding incompetence. The portrait card with 'Magee' should be the more expensive version, because everything is accurate on it.

Brian (card not mine, and I tossed my copy of Magie because I just couldn't tolerate its flawed nature)

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by brianp-beme

We should not be rewarding incompetence. The portrait card with 'Magee' should be the more expensive version, because everything is accurate on it.

Brian (card not mine, and I tossed my copy of Magie because I just couldn't tolerate its flawed nature)

[babraham]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

[Snapolit1]

Originally Posted by Bridwell

I think that a legit card of Magie is a great investment. T206 is such a well-known set to collect, that won't change in 20 years. Now that PSA 8 Magie might be a bit suspect. The upper right edge narrows a bit, like somebody shaved a little off the edge to make the corner look better perhaps. Hard to say but for that price you'd want to be sure.

Just wondering . . . .What do you think the average age of a T206 collector is these days?

Not to get too heavy . . . but 55 years old plus three decades for most men is, shall we say, officially the post colleting era?

[RCMcKenzie]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

Just wondering . . . .What do you think the average age of a T206 collector is these days?

Not to get too heavy . . . but 55 years old plus three decades for most men is, shall we say, officially the post colleting era?

There will come a time when baseball is no longer played. One day a T206 Magie will be meaningless, maybe in 500 years, 5000, 50,000, 500,000 years. A T206 Magie has always been a valuable card in the hobby, long before I was born. In 20-30 years, I expect the Turkey Red Rafer Alston to still be on eBay, and Magie's will cost $200,000 due to inflation.

[Sean]

I don't understand this thread. Magee is not a popular player, and yet the Magie card is a big card one hundred ten years after it was printed. If we haven't lost interest in the card in 110 years, what is going to be different in the next 20 years?

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by Sean

I don't understand this thread. Magee is not a popular player, and yet the Magie card is a big card one hundred ten years after it was printed. If we haven't lost interest in the card in 110 years, what is going to be different in the next 20 years?

Winner!

[Snapolit1]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

Winner!

For the same reason that Elvis Presley and Bob Hope memorabilia holds no appeal to anyone today under the age of 50.

And damm, that market for Louie Prima and Ernie Kovacs memorabilia is off the charts.

Times change; tastes change.

Amazing to me how little demand I see at auction for bands from the 1960s except a handful of them (Stones, Beatles, Who, Pink Floyd.)

(And please spare my the obligatory retort about how your 9 year old son or nephew can't collect enough Elvis memorabilia. Seriously.)

[RCMcKenzie]

Steve, not sure what series you collect, but a T206 Magie, is not a Rocco Colavito Topps card. It's why I referenced Rafer Alston, Luis Gonzalez, and Steve Finley. They are about my age and played well for my hometown teams. They are not hofers or part of important sets, so as the years go by, I expect their value to remain stagnant.

Steve Finley is like Corey Hart (apologies to our Canadian neighbors). T206 Magie is like a first release Scott Joplin record. Baseball will have to go away from our culture before baseball cards become worthless, especially cards from the T206 series.

[FrozenInferno]

Originally Posted by Sean

I don't understand this thread. Magee is not a popular player, and yet the Magie card is a big card one hundred ten years after it was printed. If we haven't lost interest in the card in 110 years, what is going to be different in the next 20 years?

Generations will be different. The kids of today might be more interested in collecting NFT’s in 20 years than “ancient” cardboard. The digital age is changing the world faster now than ever before. The love of these cards has lasted over 100 years so far but could also change in a relative heartbeat.

[parkplace33]

While I believe it holds value, not sure of it as an investment piece. Most likely only T206 set collectors will be interested, so you have already limited part of the collecting market.

[steve B]

There are also collectors that go for the "best" cards in a set, "best" being defined as the most expensive.


What could be interesting, if as some have hinted that the hobby has changed to being about commodity and not the cards....

In a graded case, the correct card is less common... So harder to find for a registry set going on just the numbers.

[53toppscollector]

Originally Posted by parkplace33

While I believe it holds value, not sure of it as an investment piece. Most likely only T206 set collectors will be interested, so you have already limited part of the collecting market.

Yes but I think this undersells the number of true T206 collectors. This message board is just a small slice of the prewar card collecting population. There are likely tens of thousands of people scattered throughout the country who collect prewar baseball cards, T206 especially and have no idea Net54 exists. Their level of dedication and budgets will vary. But there is an appetite for these cards. Look no further than a typical day on ebay with auctions ending and Piedmont/SweetCap commons getting bid up to $70-90 bucks a piece. Off back Ty Cobbs brining mid 5 figures regularly the auction houses.

The Magie is a rare card. PSA has graded 135 total, SGC 79. Assuming a few crossovers in that total, and maybe a small handful buried away raw in cigar boxes somewhere waiting to be discovered, you are talking about a total of less than 250 copies of this card that exist in the world. There are more than 250 people out there who would want to own this card because they want a complete T206 set. If the value of the card goes down, it is likely because of other major things happening in the world causing the price of every non-essential good/service to go down