REA wins last night?

[paul]

I'm absolutely crushed. As many of you know, in addition to pre-war cards, I collect everything of Tom Seaver -- cards, books, magazines, posters, etc. As far as I know, I have every Seaver card that was issued to the public. But to me, the holy grail has always been the 1970 Topps Cloth Sticker, which was never publicly issued. I've been searching for this card for probably 40-45 years. REA had one last night (probably the only one in existence). I bid hard, but came up short as the underbidder. It went for well over $20K with the juice, and I had to give up. I guess I'll never own this card, which truly would have been the cherry on top of my Seaver collection.

I was also the underbidder on the Old Judge Pete Browning, and got blown away on the E107 McGraw. Tough night.

[tod41]

Originally Posted by paul

I'm absolutely crushed. As many of you know, in addition to pre-war cards, I collect everything of Tom Seaver -- cards, books, magazines, posters, etc. As far as I know, I have every Seaver card that was issued to the public. But to me, the holy grail has always been the 1970 Topps Cloth Sticker, which was never publicly issued. I've been searching for this card for probably 40-45 years. REA had one last night (probably the only one in existence). I bid hard, but came up short as the underbidder. It went for well over $20K with the juice, and I had to give up. I guess I'll never own this card, which truly would have been the cherry on top of my Seaver collection.

I was also the underbidder on the Old Judge Pete Browning, and got blown away on the E107 McGraw. Tough night.

Sorry Paul. I was rooting for you. That would have been in good hands with you. Hopefully the lucky winner has your integrity as a collector.

[raulus]

Finally found this Grasso from the Briggs Meats set. Nice to check a difficult find off the list. Creeping my way to a full set, with 37/40 now in hand. Somebody (maybe around here) pushed me pretty hard, and I had to take down a much larger lot of 17 to get it, but those are the lengths we go to when the inducement is right.

Just missing:

Byne
Coan
Mantle

[paul]

Originally Posted by tod41

Sorry Paul. I was rooting for you. That would have been in good hands with you. Hopefully the lucky winner has your integrity as a collector.

Thanks Tim. I appreciate your kind words.

[molenick]

There was an interesting mixture of things I collect...especially cabinets and Diamond Stars. I think some of the Pifer & Becker cabinet prices were down from when the items were sold several years ago, as was the Ned Hanlon Tomlinson cabinet. I guess those were "deals" compared to previous prices.

The problem was that I was chasing Diamond Stars and by the time I realized my chase was futile (except for one card), it was too late to go back to the cabinets (or the very nice tintype someone got a good price on).

Some of the Diamond Stars were also down from the last reported VCP price...just not the one I won!