The Sporting News Photo Archive at "The Nationals"

[David Atkatz]

And absurdly high prices.

[hcv123]

WOW! The collection is unbelievable! For sure - somthing for everyone, wish I had more time to sift through players I don't collect. Bought a bunch of AMAZING Clemente images. While the prices being asked are higher than these types of photographs have sold for in years past, collectors are "waking up" to how appealing and how short in supply these images are and driving prices up - $100- $1000 for an amazing type 1 photo for which there are likely less than 12-20 copies of to me seems more than reasonable.

[David Atkatz]

Uh... more like $3000+ for desirable images.
How do you arrive at an estimate like 12-20 in existence? That's certainly not true for the $3000+ "in demand" images, which are not that uncommon.

[prewarsports]

Dave

When you have to price 300,000+ photos I think they threw prices out there as more of a starting point than anything else. I found they were really flexible with their prices. There were several photos I bought that I would talk to them about and tell them where I wanted to be at and why, and most of the time they were more than happy to deal with me. On several occasions I picked up photos for half or less than what was on them, but not always. They are really nice guys and I had a blast going through the stuff.

Also, if you have the time to dig there are things that always go overlooked in these massive collections. I found a few rare early PCL photos and some Baseball postcards that were very valuable mixed in with the photos for a fraction of their true value, but it is daunting when you see how much is there. I bet I looked for 12 hours and probably only saw 1/3 of the Baseball and did not even look through the albums of other sports.

Rhys

[bcbgcbrcb]

Rhys is exactly right with his assessment. While I probably spent about half the amount of time that he did looking through the boxes of photos, I picked up a few minor league/winter league team photos and John Rodgers was willing to offer a nice discount to significant buyers of his material. I walked away with 5 pieces in all and was very happy with my pick-ups.

[sayhey24]

Here's another photo of just one more row of photo archives.

Greg

[JasonL]

that this amazing collection is sorted, somehow!
I really wish I was there to look through it, but it looks as though it would be a nightmare if you are looking for somethng specific and it's not organized...