Demmitt / O'Hara / Cobb - a survey of T206s

[wonkaticket]

Originally Posted by CMIZ5290

I realize there is an extreme rarity concerning demmitt and o'hara, but we are talking about comparing the collectibility of 2 medicore players with ty cobb! Not to mention the astronomical difference in smr prices. A psa 8 green cobb has an smr of $48k and climbing( a recent one with bill g brought almost 70k!) while demmitt and o'hara check in with smr values of $27,500. What again were we trying to debate on this thread or another thread? swapping o'hara for cobb? i don't think so.

Kevin agree to a point, when is the last time you saw a PSA 8 or higher of Demmitt and O'Hara go off. Fire one of those up and watch the guys with PSA 8 higher sets light those cards up I think you will be surprised.

I put no faith in SMR's either folks are all about quoting SMR prices on the rise, but the same folks never point out when cards sell for half of what they sold for prior. Many high grade T206’s including Cobb Green in PSA 8 etc. have sold years later for half price or worse.

At the end of the day I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again these are worth what somebody is willing to pay you at the time of sale regardless of SMR or past auctions.

Cheers,

John

[CMIZ5290]

John- point taken.

[tedzan]

I'm still trying to understand your thinking here......
" In order to make a claim that any percentage of something is off center by any number or avg. would insinuate that you have seen 100%
of something. How could that be with Green Cobb port you haven’t seen them all have you? I think some numbers and percentages get
thrown around on here too much. Much of this information is taken for gospel by our newer collectors that’s why IMO we need to be more
careful with information that is put on lists and listed as fact etc. "

And, I'm not trying to be a "wise-guy". But, for argument's sake let's say there are approx. 2000 Green Cobb's in circulation. Of these 2000,
500 of them are PIEDMONT 150 Cobb's.

So, are you telling me that unless I have seen all 500 of these PIEDMONT 150 Cobb's, that I cannot make a % judgement with respect to
their centering ?

I will tell you that I have seen at least 100 of these PIEDMONT 150 Cobb's; and, that sample is more than I need to make a determination
that this particular Cobb will consistently be found off-center to the top....as mine is.

Do professional polling company's have to sample 100 Million people to determine how they are going to vote ? They usually sample 1000
people when they take a poll and their resulting accuracy is usually within +/- 5%.




TED Z

[wonkaticket]

Ted,

I too have held my fair share of T206 Green Cobb's nobody is saying that most P150 are not found OC to the top a lot of them are. I have 3 right now with the same cut as yours. What I am saying is to make a judgment that approx. 95% are found that way is reaching a bit or perhaps pulling numbers from thin air.

Which is ok over beers but this board and the info presented should be a bit more concrete if you will IMO.

Also what you have personally handled is not an entirely accurate census for the entire collecting collective as a whole. If we always went off one or two collectors experiences were to base any avgs. the whole thing would be really messed up IMO.

Anyone can use numbers..I could say that 64.2% of folks here think you made up the 95% number on the spot...see how that works.

Here is a not so OC Cobb right now on the Bay.

http://cgi.ebay.com/1909-T206-TY-COB...item33655016ac

Cheers,

John