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04-10-2011, 07:49 AM
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Hello everyone! First post but been lurking for a while. Back in 2000 when I was really into T206s I was offered a PSA 3 Plank for 15k but passed so I could buy the other two Cobbs's I needed to have all 4 in PSA 6..
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04-10-2011, 08:24 AM
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I had a gentleman selling me some carmels and cracker jacks. Would only sell me his extras. I did buy a 1914 Jackson and lots of others but he only had one Mathewson. It was nice as most graded 3-6. He had close to a complete set that he said he would sell next time. Next time never happened. 10 years later I still think about his cards and how there sitting raw in a drawer somewhere.
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04-10-2011, 09:18 AM
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It's not exactly the one that got away, but I remember a purchase that I passed on at a show in the fall of '96 that's always kinda pissed me off. At that time I was still a very amateur collector(well, I'm still pretty amateur compared to most on this board). Anyways, my collection was still all modern, and I still thought that my '85 Topps Cory Snyder was the greatest card ever, well, that and my '82 Topps Rusty Kuntz. At that point I had probably about $30 on me. That was a lot for me at the time, since I was still just 15. Well, at about the third or fourth table I come to there is stack of '85 Topps Mark McGwire cards. Keep in mind, I didn't have this card yet, and he was down in his career, so the card wasn't really all that important at the time. The dealer had around a dozen of them, and wanted $3.50 each, or the lot for $30. I passed and ended up buying a '93 Select Young Stars Drew Bledsoe instead. The fact that Drew is still my favorite football player ever(and this is one of his most expensive rookie cards) is probably the only thing that's kept me calm in all of this.
Anyways, fast forward to the Summer of '98. At this point, I really wasn't collecting anymore. I'm in Fargo ND for the Junior National Freestyle wrestling tournament, and we had some time off, and a few of us took the bus to the mall. And while walking the mall, I see a card shop with a nice display window in the front, so I check it out. Right there in the middle of the display is a '85 McGwire for $350, and I later find out that people were ACTUALLY paying that much for 'em. Kicked myself in the ass hard. I'm not so much mad that I didn't have the card, and I've attained one pretty easily and affordably now. BUT damn, I could've made a lot of money had I bought that lot instead of the Bledsoe.
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04-10-2011, 12:18 PM
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A stunning NM/MT Wilson Franks Ted Williams, at a card shop in Boston in the 1990s, for a fraction of what it would be worth today. Just couldn't pull the trigger.
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04-10-2011, 05:08 PM
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Back in 2003 or 2004, a PSA graded T206 Plank showed up on ebay. For the first and so far only time in my life, I had the money to be competitive. I ended up as the under bidder just a bit over $16K
Steve
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04-10-2011, 06:01 PM
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I have a few that haunt me.... Probably the biggest one is not bidding more on a PSA 5 1933 Butter Cream Grove with the Sept 1 back that sold for $500 in 2003... Someone had bid $498 and someone had bid $500 sometime before the auction ended. I saw the bids and had time to bid the next increment to win it, but couldn't pull the trigger. Ugh! Eight years later I am still looking for this card!!!!!
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04-12-2011, 02:24 PM
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I believe it was 1976 at the Hotel Aspen, Parsippany New Jersey. A dealer had exactly 2 pages of 1952 Topps Mantles, 6 or so per page. He told my dad and I we could have any one of our pick for $100 per. I can't remember the condition but I know they were not beaters. Probably Ex or Ex/Mt. We looked at each other like he was crazy and smiled. The most I had ever spent on a card was $35 and that was for a Goudey Ruth! This was just a Mantle. I sure wish I knew how to build a flux capacitor.
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04-10-2011, 10:42 PM
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There was a Leland's auction about 10 years ago with a group of D381 Fleischmann's that included Wagner. It went late and I flinched when it hit $10K. David Bryan won it and the Wagner eventually wound up in a moderator's collection... perhaps you've seen scans of it 8 or 9 times now on this forum. I get mild stabbing pains when I see it again. That will always be my single biggest collecting wuss-out
Bill Last edited by bcornell; 04-10-2011 at 10:45 PM.
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04-12-2011, 02:12 PM
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easy. late 1985, my Dad took me to a card show. One dealer I remember well, had some 54, 55, and 56 Topps. The Ernie Banks rookie was, wow, had to have been Nr Mint. And the 55 Clemente was in awesome shape. He was willing to sell the PAIR for $150. Now remember, this is Oct 1985. Against my Dad's wishes, I went instead with a lot of smaller rookies. Winfield, Yount, Brett, couple of 84 Donruss Mattingly's. Seems like I got a 80 T Henderson also. Seems like the Brett was the highest $$$ of those I got, and even it was only $20 or so. But boy, do I regret not taking my dad's advice. Especially since it was his money lol
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