Morehouse 2.0 - new discovery

[Belfast1933]

As I shared here last Fall, we were lucky enough to have had the dream Yard Sale experience last summer which turned into a newly discovered 1916 M101. Morehouse Ruth Red Sox rookie card (plus Jackson, Thorpe and other HOFers)

That experience was really a blast - tons of mainstream, non hobby media coverage which turned into quite a few really nice collection/consignments coming our way.

And among them now is another Morehouse Baking find of cards, as many here predicted might happen - a local man had a shoebox full of cards that were passed down to him and he figured they had value. But he had no idea how much until the Morehouse 1.0 find hit the news. He reached out to me to ask for advice and he decided in the end to consign his big boy cards to Heritage which come out this summer.

But thankfully, I am not missing out totally in the fun - he decided to consign about 90 of the cards to us and we’ll be direct selling them in about a week. About 30 just came back with strong grades from SGC and many are now pop 1, believe it or not.

We’re working out details of our sales strategy and expect to have them all fully priced and available late next week. I’ll surely post them here too in BST.

Moral of the story is that there are definitely still amazing cards still out there in the wild.. I guess you just have an old school yard sale and wait for lighting to strike

Man, I just love this hobby!

[tiger8mush]

another neat collection, congrats and thanks for sharing!

[mrreality68]

That is awesome

Congrats

Just be careful of to many new finds and they may no longer by rare

[Belfast1933]

Originally Posted by mrreality68

That is awesome

Congrats

Just be careful of to many new finds and they may no longer by rare

Statistically true! The population of a few of these did just double (from pop 1 to pop 2 &#128526

[bandrus1]

Originally Posted by Belfast1933

Statistically true! The population of a few of these did just double (from pop 1 to pop 2 &#128526

Well now I don't want them anymore hahah

[Leon]

Maybe I will pick one up this time or wait for Morehouse 3.0!!
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[mrreality68]

Originally Posted by Leon

Maybe I will pick one up this time or wait for Morehouse 3.0!!
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probably better to wait for 3.0
Because if the population doubles from 2 to 4 with twice the supply it will half the demand and thus drive the prices sharply down

[BRoberts]

Originally Posted by Belfast1933

But thankfully, I am not missing out totally in the fun - he decided to consign about 90 of the cards to us and we’ll be direct selling them in about a week. About 30 just came back with strong grades from SGC and many are now pop 1, believe it or not.

We’re working out details of our sales strategy and expect to have them all fully priced and available late next week. I’ll surely post them here too in BST.

Moral of the story is that there are definitely still amazing cards still out there in the wild.. I guess you just have an old school yard sale and wait for lighting to strike

Man, I just love this hobby!

Nice job getting them to SGC.

[samosa4u]

Originally Posted by Leon

Maybe I will pick one up this time or wait for Morehouse 3.0!!
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There will be a Morehouse 3.0 and a 4.0 and a 5.0 and they'll all contact Jeff Gross.

[ValKehl]

Jeff, congrats on your key involvement in both discoveries of D352 Morehouse Baking cards. Unfortunately, Morehouse #2 burst my balloon. I say this because I've relished having this rare 1-of-1 Morehouse card of WaJo (per the pop reports) for 25+ years. I was so happy that the Morehouse #! find didn't include a WaJo. But apparently, Morehouse #2 did include a WaJo, as a WaJo now appears in the PSA pop report, and I assume it is one of the "big boy cards" that the Morehouse #2 finder has consigned to Heritage. If so, I imagine that Heritage will promote it as the only known Morehouse WaJo, but any Net54 member who bids on it will know there are at least two examples in existence.

[notfast]

Edit, i cant read. I see this is the same find as the Heritage one

[oldjudge]

Val—I’m sure the HA copy won’t be as nice as yours. Apparently, this group has another Ruth, albeit with a heavy crease through the middle from what I have been told, and a few Wagners. Still no Cobb though from what I have heard.

[Belfast1933]

Originally Posted by ValKehl

Jeff, congrats on your key involvement in both discoveries of D352 Morehouse Baking cards. Unfortunately, Morehouse #2 burst my balloon. I say this because I've relished having this rare 1-of-1 Morehouse card of WaJo (per the pop reports) for 25+ years. I was so happy that the Morehouse #! find didn't include a WaJo. But apparently, Morehouse #2 did include a WaJo, as a WaJo now appears in the PSA pop report, and I assume it is one of the "big boy cards" that the Morehouse #2 finder has consigned to Heritage. If so, I imagine that Heritage will promote it as the only known Morehouse WaJo, but any Net54 member who bids on it will know there are at least two examples in existence.

Hey Val

I remember you asking about WaJo in the first Morehouse find and I was so happy for you to know that you still had the one/only. When I had the chance to see these, I saw the Johnson and thought of you again.

But yours is still amazing, beautiful and was a 1/1 for a very long time… king of the hill for 2 and 1/2 decades! And now, it’s still likely the best one (and only one of two, still amazingly rare)

There may be more still to follow - but there will never be another 1 of 1 WaJo. Yours had and got to retire that moniker!

Jeff

[ValKehl]

Thanks, Jay and Jeff, for your most kind words. The newly listed example in the PSA pop report is a PSA 3. As we are aware, what gets a 3 grade from PSA these day used to get a 4 or 5 grade. So, I have to think that the newly discovered example is nicer than mine. But, it's all part of collecting, which is such great fun.

[molenick]

Don't have one and probably never will, but reading the offer on the back, I like that you just had to show 50 different cards to get the prize and did not have to trade them in.