How Many of You Want One Baltimore News Card?

[rjackson44]

Originally Posted by MVSNYC

Should've been separate lots (individual cards).

agreed 100 pct dont get that

[BobbyStrawberry]

Unless it's the Ruth, no. So many other cards I would rather have for those prices.

[z28jd]

I voted no, but only due to the price. I would love to get the Ensign Cottrell card because of his Pittsburgh Pirates connection, but not at any of those prices. I have other card wants ahead of it for that type of money

[Fred]

Originally Posted by z28jd

I voted no, but only due to the price. I would love to get the Ensign Cottrell card because of his Pittsburgh Pirates connection, but not at any of those prices. I have other card wants ahead of it for that type of money

JD - how many Larry N172s would you trade for the Cottrell? Please include 10% of the total as London cards (which I wouldn't mind having one of those).

[z28jd]

Originally Posted by Fred

JD - how many Larry N172s would you trade for the Cottrell? Please include 10% of the total as London cards (which I wouldn't mind having one of those).

43 of them, let me know when you win

[molenick]

I cannot say which would have been better for the consignor. I personally just wanted them to be separate so I could have had a chance to win one.

But since they did offer them as a lot, I think it is wise that they did not also offer them as individual cards as well. We have seen that that idea does not work when lots close individually (without some manipulation to the software that resets the countdown clock for all the lots if a bid is placed on any one lot).

[Peter_Spaeth]

Personally, no interest whatsoever in commons, no matter how scarce.

[Fred]

JD - how many Larry N172s would you trade for the Cottrell? Please include 10% of the total as London cards (which I wouldn't mind having one of those).
43 of them, let me know when you win

Originally Posted by z28jd

43 of them, let me know when you win

So, you'd be willing to part with half of your Larry cards. Perhaps I should consider bidding on the lot. If I win, trade you the Ensign Cottrell card, sell the rest at $12K a piece and then slowly start integrating the Larry cards back into the market. Now, all I have to do is win the lot and find a few other buyers.

[gunboat82]

Originally Posted by BobbyStrawberry

Unless it's the Ruth, no. So many other cards I would rather have for those prices.

The high-end collectibles market is a fascinating place. The main selling point for these, as the listing reflects, is that they at one point shared a space with the Ruth card and another card for the guy who discovered Ruth.

I might want them all if I were already throwing cash at the Ruth and Dunn. But if I have a hankering for an old Ezra Midkiff, I'll pick up a T210-5 for less than 1/100 of the cost.

[molenick]

Originally Posted by gunboat82

The high-end collectibles market is a fascinating place. The main selling point for these, as the listing reflects, is that they at one point shared a space with the Ruth card and another card for the guy who discovered Ruth.

I might want them all if I were already throwing cash at the Ruth and Dunn. But if I have a hankering for an old Ezra Midkiff, I'll pick up a T210-5 for less than 1/100 of the cost.

You have a point. If Ruth wasn't in the set, I wonder what the interest in the other cards would be. It is a rare set for type collectors, but so is something like 1911 Western Playground Association, and common cards from that set do not go for 10K apiece. That may not be the best analogy, but I do think that if this was just the run of the mill rare type set, the individual cards would not go for as much.

[ullmandds]

the western playground is a decent analogy! And I agree if there were no ruth...this set would be quite obscure and nichy.

the reason I got out of type collecting was because it kind of made me sick paying mid 5 figures for a rare card of an unimportant subject. i remember dropping over 3K for a t208 culligan fireside of a common player...just to fill a slot. And that was like 20 years ago. 10K is the old 3K!!!!

I'd rather have an iconic hobby card of a top hof'er/icon for the same money.

[BRoberts]

If the auction ended now, the 13 commons in the lot would sell for $8,300 each. I can't imagine that lot won't hammer for $130K, or $10,000 per card. 87 percent of respondents to the very-limited poll in this thread say they wouldn't pay $10K per card. Finally, some very quick research shows that common Baltimore News cards have sold in the past for about $5,000 to $6,000 each when offered individually.

So I'd love for MVSNYC and rjackson44 (and others who have posted the same thought) to explain their logic on why the commons should have been sold individually.