Mile High Card Auction…1968 Baseball Card Set
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I received a Mile High Card Auction catalog today. There is an amazing offering in this auction: a 1968 Baseball Card set with a GPA of 9.94 and a 10.90 weighted GPA!!! 572/598 cards are PSA-10s!!!
How high in the 6-figure numbers does this go? Or are we looking at a 7-figure hammer price?!
Let the discussion begin…
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I would think it depends pretty heavily on whether the major stars are included in the 572.
Last year a 1975 Topps that was #2 in the set registry sold for $600,000. That set had a 9.94.
I would imagine the 1968 will sell for more that that.
All stars are 10s…but Ryan RC, Seaver and Perez.
Is the winner the closest without going over, The Price is Right style?
$830k is my guess. Who is taking $830,000.01?
Is this going to be an auction that puts the set up against the break-up auction listings and the high amount wins? I hate those auctions. You waste all that time placing bids on individual cards only to have the set win out. So I usually don't waste my time on those auctions...not that I have my eye on this set.
1968 PSA 10's have been selling quite well. I think the consignee will do quite well, especially if they acquired them years ago when 1968 PSA 10s were among the more affordable vintage 10s in the market.
It is indeed. That said, I did win a number of individual cards in one of those types of auctions last year. Glad I took the time to bid.
Late 60's and early to mid 70's non-sports
The guy who put a huge part of that set together over 20-25 years ago lived in Connecticut, I wish I could remember his name. He was a big time collector. He bought a few common 10's from me. He was paying $500 a pop for common 10's which was huge money then. I dont even know if he's still living. He was in his 60's then
.> @Harnessracing said:
Very cool if the cert numbers on those PSA10 commons you sold are in your submission. I like documentation with full set auctions that has details for when the cards were pulled/graded.
I plan to document those details on my set.
Those 68s are amazing. Someone is gonna make a bunch of cash.
Eventually all collections will hit the market. Just wow on this 1968 set. Kudos to the seller and his family.
A 1968 Baseball Card set with a GPA of 9.94 seems almost impossible to me. I wasn't even aware you could get to a 9.94 on the older sets. Are there other older, similar sets out there graded that high?
Successful card BST transactions with cbcnow, brogurt, gstarling, Bravesfan 007, and rajah 424.
Bid on two of them doubtful I will get either. Beautiful set. Down to 8 left on my ‘68 HOF set. While I am very proud of what I am putting together it does not compare to this. Cannot even imagine how this was accomplished. Unfortunately one of my 8 is Ryan. The other 7 are minor with 4 being leaders which are surprisingly expensive.
It would be interesting to know how long to assemble this set…and how
much money spent to attain practically all cards in the set in a PSA-10??
Definitely…quite the accomplishment.
When I was doing the 50s and 60s All Star subsets a few years ago I found that the 1968s were the easiest and least expensive to find in PSA 10. I had 17 of the 20 All Star cards in PSA 10. I needed Clemente, Santo and Alley. I sold them way to early.
https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/baseball/key-card-sets/1968-topps-all-stars/alltimeset/213317
It's a much smaller set but there's a 69 Topps Supers with a 9.96 (65/66 are a 10).
Just got my catalog today. STUNNING cards!
Thanks Tabe! I honestly didn't realize it was even possible with sets over 50 years old.
Successful card BST transactions with cbcnow, brogurt, gstarling, Bravesfan 007, and rajah 424.
I don’t think it’s possible to get that close with most sets of that era. 1968 seems to be considerably easier in high grade than surrounding sets.
So I assume somebody who is willing to spend this kind of money will make sure all the cert numbers are legit, no tampering, and the card still represents the grade?
Attached is a PSA10 that has edges of a PSA7 IMO. For refence this is a 93 FU Alonzo Mourning scoring kings on PWCC for $1k.
To distinguish between collectors and investors…collectors buy the card, investors buy the holder (PSA-10). JMHO
I agree - that is one of the reasons I started working on the ‘68 HOF set - my first ever PSA 9 was a ‘68 Drysdale and up until a few years ago the 9s were still really affordable. I have 30 PSA 9s and 2 SGC 96s in my set. I also have 18 PSA 8.5s including the Bench rookie. There is no other year in the ‘60s I could have ever afforded that. My weighted average (not in registry because of the fact I have some SGCs and one BVG) is 8.45 with 8 cards left (one being Ryan). I couldn’t afford it today but at the 2019 National I picked up a lot of 9s and my Bench rookie. When complete it will be nicer by far than the other HOF sets I am working on.
1968 is definitely the easiest pre-1970 mainstream set to build in high grade. The print and paper quality that year was quite good. You don't have many print defects and the burlap borders help to hide minor wear. The population distribution bears this out with the large population of 10s compared to other years.
It seems unfathomable that 572 different cards from a 55-year-old set could be graded a 10 let alone be compiled into one set. Amazing!
George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.
Also the centering was much better than most 60’s sets.
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