Historical Baseball memorabilia from McGreevy's Sports Bar up for sale January 26th

[UKCardGuy]

Originally Posted by bobfreedman

everything is a Copy or a reprint, it clearly states it in the terms and conditions with very few exceptions

Indeed. I've seen the auction listing a little while ago and it was very disappointing. The auction listings state

"All items in this sale are copies from the original archives from the Boston Public Library unless noted in the description as "original"."

[LOUCARDFAN]

I think the auction house is thinking that people will bid on the items just so that they can have an item as a memento from the bar rather than the collectible value of the item itself. Since these items were all displayed in the bar, thankfully they are mostly copies.

[swarmee]

Looks like you can do a search for "original" at the top to get the real items.

[prewarsports]

Be careful, many of the "original" items are only original in strict legal terms, meaning that most of the "composites" and photos were assembled in relatively recent years. It is therefor also pretty easy to surmise that most of these, due to their construction, never were part of the original McGreevy establishment, but the recent incarnation that was resurrected and lasted for a few years. Not trying to start anything, but please do your homework with lots of google searches before dropping money beyond trinket value on most of this stuff. A few of the items at the front of the auction seem fine, but after that, consider it like you are at a flea market or antique mall and you see something that looks old but is made for the modern collector and not actually of much value beyond it's aesthetic display value.

[Shoeless Moe]

Anybody else watch this auction Live?

I'm not sure what to make of those running it.

Like when the lady was doing it she'd say the item was original, then someone would yell over to her that it wasn't......of course this is after she's calling bids for the item.

It was a bit of a circus act.

They were discussing ordering lunch....so it wasn't a pro auction, it was kinda different, I don't know, did anyone else watch or win anything?

[eastonfalcon19]

I lost the over sized bat which I thought was pretty cool. Some strong prices I thought.

[MGHPro]

I bought a bunch of stuff .... I previewed yesterday . ALOT - I mean a lot of the items would fool the best eye unless you can take it out of the frame and actually feel it and view the back. Guarantee a lot will be passed off as real somewhere along the way.
Ron - the bug bat was cool, but not too impressive in person .