Pricing advice, matching “wrong back” 1974 Garvey/Pappas

[mrmopar]

This pair seems to be quite easy to find. I have several and have seen many more listed. Guessing aside form error collectors or Garvey collectors, who may pay a slight premium, value would be fairly low.

[Belfast1933]

Originally Posted by mrmopar

This pair seems to be quite easy to find. I have several and have seen many more listed. Guessing aside form error collectors or Garvey collectors, who may pay a slight premium, value would be fairly low.

Thanks for the information - I had seen a confirmed sale (eBay) of a graded version of this Garvey front version of this pair sell for a nice premium… but no other sale of the pair since

But I appreciate your experience on this - if you know of anyone who might be interested in a pairing like this, please send them my way!

Thx again -

Jeff

[rats60]

Originally Posted by mrmopar

This pair seems to be quite easy to find. I have several and have seen many more listed. Guessing aside form error collectors or Garvey collectors, who may pay a slight premium, value would be fairly low.

There was a whole sheet that was misprinted like this in some quantity. Card Collectors Company used to sell these 132 card misprint sets in their catalog. I bought one from them back in the 70s.

[mrmopar]

When I first discovered Garvey had a wrong back/front, I was super excited, but when I saw them relatively easy to find over and over (also the Garvey/Randolph 82 Topps seems even more plentiful), the excitement died out. Still cool, but I figured there was some sort of hoard of these, which would explain why something that would otherwise seem almost impossible to find would be much, much easier.

I happened upon some 1979/1978 Topps front/back pairings in Cooperstown a couple years back, selling a buck each and landed a Garvey and a few other stars.

I guess it all depends on who's selling/buying, when and where.