Anyone Here Win This? Cy Young Cigar Box

[canjond]

Carlton- I believe it's actually the 3rd known (so rare indeed) although I'm sure there are others out there. One of the first to come to market was in the Barry halper sale, and sold for over $10k. That same box was auctioned off a few years later by REA for around $6500. Overall that box is a little nicer, so I agree with the above that this is probably a $4k-$4.5k box.

[CarltonHendricks]

Originally Posted by canjond

Carlton- I believe it's actually the 3rd known (so rare indeed) although I'm sure there are others out there. One of the first to come to market was in the Barry halper sale, and sold for over $10k. That same box was auctioned off a few years later by REA for around $6500. Overall that box is a little nicer, so I agree with the above that this is probably a $4k-$4.5k box.

Jon, So you're saying the Halper box was the same example that sold in REA?...and the seller took a $3,500.00 plus fees bath?...ouch!

[canjond]

Originally Posted by CarltonHendricks

Jon, So you're saying the Halper box was the same example that sold in REA?...and the seller took a $3,500.00 plus fees bath?...ouch!

Exactly... here's the original write=up from the 2005 REA auction:

"This box was originally part of the Barry Halper Collection. It appeared as Lot #346 in the famous Halper auction, where it sold for $10,350 at that time, and was purchased at the auction by our consignor." ... SOLD FOR $6,380.00

[patricka]

I saw it on ebay and thought it would probably go in the $3000 to $4000 range. When researching the one on ebay, I had seen the one from the 2005 REA auction but did not think it would reach that level now. A slightly different version with a different interior label sold in their 2006 auction for only around $2300. The design on the top of that box actually matches the design on the one that was on ebay. If you compare the 2005 REA example and ebay example the design on the top of the box is actually different.

Hunt had another slightly different version in one of their aucitons back in 2000 and it brought like around $6600.

Those 3 were the only other examples I could find by doing some quick research when I was watching it on ebay. I dropped out around the $3100 mark.

[Exhibitman]

Fantastic box. I guess real stuff does sell on Ebay

I bought my 1st cigar box recently but for less than 1/10 of the Cy Young. BTW, I found that a basketball holder was a perfectly sized display case for it:

[travrosty]

nice boxing benny leonard cigar box. superb!

do you know of any other boxers that they made cigar boxes like this for?

[Exhibitman]

Jim Jeffries.