It's raining Beschers

[nolemmings]

In the last 2½ months Greg Morris has sold some 1916 Tango Eggs cards of Bob Bescher. As in 24 of them, with 4 more up on Ebay currently. He also has sold about half that many Tango Eggs of Hughie Jennings during the same time– I guess it takes two to tango. Now I know that there was a large find of these cards years ago that was heavily weighted or overloaded with just a few subjects, but has anyone here seen such a glut of these or any prewar card in such a short time before? It’s a neat type card to have, don’t get me wrong, but geez.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/38611285813...Bk9SR-a065vVYg

[BobbyStrawberry]

I feel like I've seen more Tango Eggs Beschers available for sale than all other cards in the set combined.

[G1911]

Wasn’t there a huge lot of these subjects sold by an auction house a few months ago? I’d presume that’s being broken up.

[x2drich2000]

Bescher is by far one of the most common Tango Eggs and it is probably just the winner of this lot dumping them gradually.

https://bid.robertedwardauctions.com...?itemid=139264

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by x2drich2000

Bescher is by far one of the most common Tango Eggs and it is probably just the winner of this lot dumping them gradually.

https://bid.robertedwardauctions.com...?itemid=139264

I remember seeing that crazy REA lot and thinking...if these were mine, I wouldn't consign them as a group lot in an auction. There were 37 Beschers and 14 Jennings cards. That's nuts! Here is a a group shot of most of the 55 cards of the lot.

tangoeggsreagrouplot.jpg

Brian

[donmuth]

how many other future HOF/star players that kid gave up in trades back in the day to get more Beschers? What was he was thinking?!

Or was the lot acquired in more modern times? And again, what was that guy thinking?

[x2drich2000]

Originally Posted by donmuth

how many other future HOF/star players that kid gave up in trades back in the day to get more Beschers? What was he was thinking?!

Or was the lot acquired in more modern times? And again, what was that guy thinking?

Most Tango Eggs were discovered as part of a huge find. Players were not equally distributed. There have been a few threads on the subject over the years. Here is one that includes a copy of the letter released by the family who made the find outlining a very rough number of each player included: https://www.net54baseball.com/showth...ght=tango+eggs

[Tom S.]

Originally Posted by nolemmings

In the last 2½ months Greg Morris has sold some 1916 Tango Eggs cards of Bob Bescher. As in 24 of them, with 4 more up on Ebay currently. He also has sold about half that many Tango Eggs of Hughie Jennings during the same time– I guess it takes two to tango. Now I know that there was a large find of these cards years ago that was heavily weighted or overloaded with just a few subjects, but has anyone here seen such a glut of these or any prewar card in such a short time before? It’s a neat type card to have, don’t get me wrong, but geez.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/38611285813...Bk9SR-a065vVYg

I see what you did there...