Dating of The Reccius Cigar Card of Honus Wagner

[calvindog]

No chance Goldin auctions that card off anytime soon. The consigner was greedy and should have simply run the card without a reserve and gotten out of it. Now all of these threads will pop up and even the least educated of wealthy collectors will find them.

[oldjudge]

LOL, perhaps another HOF donation

[bcbgcbrcb]

I knew all about the dating issue with the card 15 years ago and I had no intention nor wherewithal of bidding on it for that reason. More, I could never afford it but as a potential rookie card, knew it was out of the picture. How anyone, let alone several others, could bid this card up to $875,000 is ridiculous to me. Don’t we need to be a little more educated on what we spend $875K on? To me, anything much above the previous high sale of $50K is questionable.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by bcbgcbrcb

I knew all about the dating issue with the card 15 years ago and I had no intention nor wherewithal of bidding on it for that reason. More, I could never afford it but as a potential rookie card, knew it was out of the picture. How anyone, let alone several others, could bid this card up to $875,000 is ridiculous to me. Don’t we need to be a little more educated on what we spend $875K on? To me, anything much above the previous high sale of $50K is questionable.

Maybe they weren't bids that were placed with the hope of winning, given the rules.

[oldjudge]

It would be nice if Goldin disclosed what the highest real bid was (perhaps they were all real, who knows?).