T206 Lumley Old Mill from Greg Morris

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Originally Posted by abothebear

What’s going on here? I don’t know a ton about Old Mills. Why did it go for almost ten times your max bid. Was it a rare-colored Old Mill?

In general, old mill is not a particularly rare back. That said, there are a number of players where finding an old mill back is near impossible - some are 1 of 1s or super low pop. I really only collect HOFers, so I am not sure about the combo in question, but I suspect it’s a very rare combo; I can tell you Walter Johnson portrait and Cobb bat on in old mill are super tough. I believe Magee is tough as well.

There are 4 reasons why this went so high: (1) someone doing an old mill subset, (2) someone doing a player back run, (3) someone trying to put together a master set, or (4) someone who collects super rare cards or t206 front/back combos