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Tango Eggs Hughie Jennings
Posted By: Jeff Lichtman
Here's a bizarre anamoly: 1916 Tango Eggs issue has 16 cards. How is it that of the 33 cards graded PSA 8 in the entire set, 18 of them are Jennings? Some of the cards only have total populations of 1. How can such a widespread difference exist? |
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Tango Eggs Hughie Jennings
Posted By: Richard Masson
Brian? |
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Tango Eggs Hughie Jennings
Posted By: Bruce Babcock
While the total universe of Tango Eggs is about 500+ cards, if memory serves, Jennings was one of the most numerous in that group. So is Bescher. Of the large "find" of about 500 cards made around 1990 most were in superb uncirculated shape and graded well as a result. So while Tango Eggs are really scarce compared to many tobacco/caramel issues from the same time period, when you do find one it is likely to be graded and in really nice shape. |
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Tango Eggs Hughie Jennings
Posted By: BcDaniels
of the close to 800 total cards found in the Tango "find" |
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Tango Eggs Hughie Jennings
Posted By: Jeff Lichtman
Brian, is it possible those two players' cards were produced in larger numbers than the rest? And why? |
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Tango Eggs Hughie Jennings
Posted By: fkw
Brian is the expert on the Tango cards, But I think these cards were never really issued. I think they were printed up and then just sat for the 75+ years before the hoard was discovered. |
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Tango Eggs Hughie Jennings
Posted By: Bruce Babcock
My total was off by about 300 cards. Oh, well. |
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Tango Eggs Hughie Jennings
Posted By: BcDaniels
http://www.psacard.com/articles/article_view.chtml?artid=3470&universeid=314&type=1> |
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Tango Eggs Hughie Jennings
Posted By: Jeff Lichtman
Brian, that's a big help. What a bizarre set of circumstances for an entire set. |
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Tango Eggs Hughie Jennings
Posted By: Griffins
<<Does anyone have a Tango in low grade with wear??>> |
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Tango Eggs Hughie Jennings
Posted By: fkw
The one thing that pissed me off right after the hoard was discovered! |
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Tango Eggs Hughie Jennings
Posted By: barrysloate
Wasn't Cobb the rarest, with one or two known? |
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Tango Eggs Hughie Jennings
Posted By: BcDaniels
you know everything! |
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Tango Eggs Hughie Jennings
Posted By: Jeff Mohler
I wasn't collecting in 1990 when the find was made. Does anyone want to give better detail than the PSA Article linked in one of the preceding posts about how the find was made, who had the cards, etc. |
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Tango Eggs Hughie Jennings
Posted By: Jeff Lichtman
Brian, you have to post that scan here, I've got to see it. |
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Tango Eggs Hughie Jennings
Posted By: BcDaniels
scattered cards came from people hunting down the family,(Doug Allen) and scooping us the confetti after I put the bulk of the eggs in my basket! |
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Tango Eggs Hughie Jennings
Posted By: Jeff Lichtman
Brian, do you have a scan of the Cobb Tango Egg? |
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Tango Eggs Hughie Jennings
Posted By: BcDaniels
had too many people over the years tell me I did not have one. |
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Tango Eggs Hughie Jennings
Posted By: Jeff Lichtman
Brian, I see I'm going to have to send someone with an Italian surname to see you and persuade you. |
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Tango Eggs Hughie Jennings
Posted By: barrysloate
Anybody remember the fiasco when Mr. Mint ran a full page ad in SCD selling most of the Tango hoard? I've gotten into enough trouble lately so maybe somebody else can recount the details. It's enough to make your blood boil (sorry, you didn't hear it from me). |
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Tango Eggs Hughie Jennings
Posted By: BcDaniels
Frank Ward outlined this above! |
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Tango Eggs Hughie Jennings
Posted By: barrysloate
Sorry Brian- I didn't read Frank's post but the story I heard was different and a lot more sinister. Maybe what I heard wasn't even true, but it had to do with a consignor getting ripped off. Does that ring a bell? |
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Tango Eggs Hughie Jennings
Posted By: BcDaniels
let's talk about your auction! |
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Tango Eggs Hughie Jennings
Posted By: barrysloate
Sounds good, but I am turning off the computer for the night shortly. |
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Tango Eggs Hughie Jennings
Posted By: Mike
I have no idea why, but I have always liked the Buck Weaver tango. I have always been tempted to buy one, and they are pretty easy to find, I just have never picked one up. it seems like I see them quite often. They must be one of the more common Tango's. I really should get one...... |
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Tango Eggs Hughie Jennings
Posted By: jay behrens
Frank, sounds like a typical Mr Mint stunt. He ran an ad around 1987 or 88 buying Wheaties panels for a crazy amount. I offered him my complete collection of Wheaties on entire boxes. He told me he wasn't interested because he had already bought all the wheaties that he needed. ETF? No way he as many complete boxes as I did. That's when I figured out the scam. He bought cards on the cheap. Ran an ad with an insane buy price, then used those buy prices to justify his sale prices. I never once was able to sell a card to him because he always happened to have bought as many cards as he wanted at that point. hmmmmmmm |
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Tango Eggs Hughie Jennings
Posted By: barrysloate
Any time he ever ran a retail ad, which wasn't often, the ad was completely sold out before the magazine hit the stands. I never spoke to anybody who was ever able to buy a single item from them. |
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Tango Eggs Hughie Jennings
Posted By: Jeff Lichtman
He seems to have taken a much lower profile these days - so what is he doing to make money? |
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Tango Eggs Hughie Jennings
Posted By: fkw
I'll take one of each please
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Tango Eggs Hughie Jennings
Posted By: Tom Boblitt
buy on the cheap, add 10-20% and sell to Verkman, Esposito or others. Guess in volume, he could do well. He touted buying $100-$150K at most of the big shows, so 10-20% markup would net 10-30K or so per show. Probably not many dealers make that kind of PROFIT. Plus dealing in cash....you know. I'm assuming when he did auctions, he cherry-picked the 'MINT' stuff and auctioned it, sold the mid grade stuff off as above. |
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Tango Eggs Hughie Jennings
Posted By: martindl
Jeff, |
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Tango Eggs Hughie Jennings
Posted By: BcDaniels
both what I know about him that none of you do and what happened to him at two shows once. |
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Tango Eggs Hughie Jennings
Posted By: Bruce Babcock
http://www.psacard.com/set_registry/display_cards.chtml?rsetid=6092&alltime=yes&rank=2&tied=0&requesttimeout=9999 |
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Tango Eggs Hughie Jennings
Posted By: BcDaniels
guess through who? |
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Tango Eggs Hughie Jennings
Posted By: Bruce Babcock
No thanks, Brian. I have officially thrown in the towel on this set and moved on. Like Britney and K-Fed, or, as he will now be known, FedEx. |
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Tango Eggs Hughie Jennings
Posted By: Griffins
I"m stuck at 9 cards as well, and right behind Bruce on the registry. I've only seen 1 I didn't have in the last 4 years, and was outbid. Beschers and Jennings are all over the place, relatively, but Bresnahans and Zimmermans are a whole other story. |
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