e121 series of 80

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Posted By: doug

wow

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=009&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&viewitem=&item=190124789241&rd=1&rd=1

nice looking card of HOF but thats getting up there in price.

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Posted By: barrysloate

That is a high price but they were issued on thin paper stock and are difficult to find in high grade. Once the set regisrty people start bidding, it's a whole new ballgame.

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Posted By: doug

i agree re the condition, these caramel cards are almost impossible to find in even ex shape or better.....psa 7s and psa 8s are almost non-existent

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Posted By: Anonymous

darn...3 grand..out of my price range

any idea what a PSA 8 HOf in this set would go for?

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Posted By: Scot Reader

Feeling better about this nice raw example I picked-up on eBay last week for $330. E121 Series of 120.

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Posted By: Jimmy

I have done very well with these cards this year, I am sure the PSA set registry has a bit to do with the high prices

Jimmy

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Posted By: doug

4,500 is insane....yes its a condition rarity HOF and a couple of bidders are fighting for it, but its only a PSA 6...great looking card but seems out of whack when compared to other great sets. to put it in perspective, you could pick up a ruth goudey psa 6 for that price.

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Posted By: boxingcardman

Wow, I guess the price wave has hit the 1920s caramels...

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Posted By: Paul

How many things can you name from Mastro's recent auction that you'd rather have than this card -- and that sold for less? A hundred? More? How about a T3 or E95 Cobb, or a T216 or E98 Wagner? If you go back to Mastro's previous auction, I believe there were some N173 Hall of Famers for about the same price.

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Posted By: doug

true there are alot of nice things you can buy for that price. That being said, and as pointed out, there just arent that many of these 1920 caramel cards areound that are in decent shape. The cards have been undervalued for a long time and now it seems like they are playing catch up with other pre war issues. The fact they were issued with candy, are good sized sets and are chock full of hall of famers such as Ruth and Cobb make them very desirable and collectible. However, as someone who would like to accumulate more of these, I am concerned the deep pockets are scooping them up without any regard prices. Hopefully, this is a temporary aberration. But if you look at PSA 3 and 4s and higher of the earlier E sets (98, 93, etc), those prices have skyrocketed over the last few years and there just dont seem to be enough caramel cards around to meet demand.

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Posted By: Troy Kirk

In a 1957 article, Buck Barker stated that he thought there was a good chance that the picture on that card wasn't really Harry Heilmann, though he didn't know who it was. His reasoning was that he didn't believe the Tigers had that high collar after Spring Training of 1914, before Heilmann was on the team.