Dmitri Young collection prices!? WHAT!

[Cooptown]

The Clemente was purchased by a collector who posts on the PSA message board (EOMint). He says that the Rose and Aaron were purchased by a friend of his.

[bn2cardz]

What about a 77 MARK FIDRYCH for $3,493. I can't imagine paying more than $10 for a person who had a four year career.

another one that got me thinking was the 90 FRANK THOMAS NNOF - $24,244

or how about the Johnny Ray card... or they like to call it Barry Bonds error $2,125

[travrosty]

totally nuts no matter which way you slice it.

[GasHouseGang]

It's funny, because Dmitri Young had someone buy these for him so the prices wouldn't be driven up by the sellers. Then he turns around and sells them with his name put on the slab to drive the prices up. Smart business man!

[Brianruns10]

What surprises me is that the '52 Hoyt Willhelm rookie fetched "only" $25,000. Honestly, if I that sort of dough to throw around, I would've been willing to pay twice that. I mean, we're dealing with a unique example, a rookie card for a Hall of Famer, a Topps high number, and just a damn beautiful card (Wilhelm's sleepy eyes aside). What more can you ask for?

[Brianruns10]

According to this article-

http://thebiglead.com/index.php/2012...t-for-charity/

-Dmitri spent $5,000,000 to build this collection, yet at auction the lot raised around $2.5 million...

Unless I'm missing something, the dude got taken to the 'effin cleaners on this one...

[GasHouseGang]

If that article is accurate he spent $5 million on 497 cards. That's $10060 per card. That includes all of those "rare" Bonds rookies and Dmitri Young rookies that were offered. I find it hard to believe that he could have spent that much. A lot of the money spent had to go to overhead for the guy he had fly around buying his collection. Clearly the cards aren't worth that much, as the auction results show.

[begsu1013]

bump for peter


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