1915 Cracker Jack Baseball Cards

[iggyman]

Since it's a slow news day here on Net54 and I can never have enough friends or perhaps enemies.

Anybody going to be near Tacoma on Sept. 3rd? Not exactly the auction house I would have chosen, but it will be interesting to see the results. If you actually read the article, it has a snippet on how the cards were found inside a board game.


http://www.thenewstribune.com/2013/0...ut-of-the.html

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2013/0...cker-jack.html

"Lovely Day!"

[Leon]

Thanks for posting Iggy. Always cool to read about finds. That being said, I have a habit of looking for errors in articles about pre-war baseball cards. I don't quite understand why, but I do. On this one I think the author probably read about 1914s somewhere and then thought that the 1915s were printed on thin paper too. Of course they weren't. Nice read and thanks again for posting on what is a slow news day on the board.

[GasHouseGang]

Those are some beauties. It's always great when someone makes a find like that. It keeps you hoping that maybe someday...

[WillowGrove]

I'll be out there on vacation with my wife so Ill check it out. Anyone want to go in it together?

[rainier2004]

Wow, Im not sure exactly how much the auctioneer thinks he's going to get with these. He wont guarantee any authenticity, has no terms of sales on his web page and cards are not available for preview. Id love to have this set, don't get me wrong, but when you talk to him he expects north of 50k for these.

[WillowGrove]

Originally Posted by rainier2004

Its nice to have 2 members out the auction now...

I know, I know Steve. the first thread shocked me and now this one. sigh. I really don't understand it.

I think there are two groups - one who think 'don't out an auction because there may be people who are interested in the stuff, etc etc." and another group that thinks 'well the auction is already out there, so everyone already knows about it!"

My POV is, i know other people will know about the auction but if I'm interested in something at least i want to mitigate or lessen the number of people who know about it.

Especially for a sale outside of the big BB auction houses.

This is probably the only issue that still really gets to me.

Thanks for acknowledging the outing Steve.

peter