Leland Giants Postcard- Hake Auction

[benchod]

Yes Ryan,
The most shocking part of the auction to me was that the postcard reached it's value despite Hake's best efforts to hide it's true worth.
The write up was some drivel they cut and pasted from a website about the Leland Giants.
Nowhere in the write up did they mention that Pete Hill was pictured in the postcard! Unbelievable. Congrats to the lucky winner!

[prewarsports]

The price was higher than I would have thought but it is not very often you see fresh items anymore that take your breath away, and this is one of those. I woud rather have this than any RARE PSA 7+ card that has sold for similar levels.

Rhys

[Matt]

Bruce - as I recall, you yourself recently bid 8x the auction estimate on a negro league postcard of Oscar Charleston and, even at that, weren't even the underbidder. 8x makes sense to you but 30x doesn't?

[slidekellyslide]

Originally Posted by benchod

Yes Ryan,
The most shocking part of the auction to me was that the postcard reached it's value despite Hake's best efforts to hide it's true worth.
The write up was some drivel they cut and pasted from a website about the Leland Giants.
Nowhere in the write up did they mention that Pete Hill was pictured in the postcard! Unbelievable. Congrats to the lucky winner!

Why would Hake's try to hide its true value? They are primarily a pop-culture memorabilia house that often times sells baseball items, but it's been my experience with them through the years that they know very little about baseball and a whole lot about pinbacks and vintage toys. I'd be shocked if anyone that works at Hake's had ever heard the name Pete Hill.

[benchod]

Uh Dan, It was a facetious remark
i.e. I wasn't trying to imply that Hakes purposely was trying to keep the price down

[ElCabron]

For the record, neither of the two bidders I knew of wound up winning it. So there were at least 3 serious bidders. Unless Doug Allen consigned/won it, of course.

-Ryan

[calvindog]

Originally Posted by NoizeBringer

For the record, neither of the two bidders I knew of wound up winning it. So there were at least 3 serious bidders. Unless Doug Allen consigned/won it, of course.

-Ryan

Ryan, you should be careful making such a satirical accusation -- after all, you could be sued for libel. Of course, truth is a defense which means you couldn't lose.

Edited to add so as not to run afoul of the new trade organization. Fancy stationary scares me.

[ElCabron]

Jeff,

You must be on to something. I think Walter Tomala has called me like 37 times since I made that post.

-Ryan

[Exhibitman]

Yeah, all between 2:00 and 2:43 a.m.

Did he call your brother a retard too?

[slidekellyslide]

Originally Posted by benchod

Uh Dan, It was a facetious remark
i.e. I wasn't trying to imply that Hakes purposely was trying to keep the price down

Your subtlety was too subtle for me....add in the recent shenanigans surrounding many auction houses today and it caused my knee to jerk. Hake's is one of the good guys.

Next time use smiley's.