February Hunt Auction

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Posted By: David

As someone who's bought and sold a number of Harper's/Leslie's baseball and non-sport woodcuts, I can tell you that there's nearly NO consistancy in pricing. This is in part because there is no price guide to reference. Sell one one day for $100, the next day it sells for $20. I think any of them for $29 is a good buy. Amongst the most expensive is probably the 1869 Cincinnati Reds (from the same picture as on the Peck and Snyder trade card)-- I thnk I sold one for $250. The 1860s Leslie's of James Creighton might sell for $500 (guess, I've never owned it).

A lot of smaller and even foreign newspapers had nice baseball woodcuts. I saw an 1880s St. Louis newspaper that had a grand woodcut of the World Champs Browns.