Maravich Autograph

jad22

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=2826&item=5209366000&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

I don't think I have ever seen a Maravich signed check goes this high.

wufdude

Maravich Auto

Awesome item. Glad it got slabbed before it became a "cut" autograph....

jad22

I have not paid much attention to cards the last couple of years. I tend to collect Celtic autographs but I was a little irked to find many great autographs attached to the back of cards and labeled as "cut" signatures. Not to offend anyone, I just don't like companies buying up autographs and putting them into packs.

Stone193

The thing that drove the price up, IMO, is the PSA/DNA holder - if you want to maximize the sale of your signed items on ebay, it seems that psa is the way to go.

mike

jad22

I am just glad I got my maravich check before the price went this high.

duner

whoever bought that one was truly foolish....they clearly went that high solely for the psa encapsulated holder. i got a check earlier this week for $500 after buyers premium. the one on mastro closed last night at about the same amount. on top of that, gray flannel has them on the website for $525.

legit Maravich's are tough autos to obtain. I'd bet they'll continue to rise though, because the ton jackie maravich dumped on the market a couple years ago are all gone and are re-surfacing on the secondary and tertiary market....unless she has a bunch more to dump, and as ridiculous as the price was, it probably will be a good investment.

another encapsulated one hit ebay yesterday. I'm going to see what it finishes at...if it goes as high, i'm just going to buy a couple, pay psa their $75 fee and and make me some money on the bay.

jad22

In the past $400 dollars was the norm for a Maravich check. It is certainly tougher to find his complete name rather than the "Pistol Pete" signature so I would think the price of checks will continue to rise.

austinchau

wonder how much this one would go for

duner

Jad, I hate that "pistol pete sig" with the 4:22 thing he always added to it, but as for the sig, gray flannel auctions auctioned off a check this week with his full name "peter maravich" and that only went for $488 before the buyer's premium. The site listed it as the only one in existence (which i know for a fact isn't true) but either way, that's the rarest sig of them all and it was still only half what that encapsulated one went for...i sure wish the buyer was a board member, i'd love to hear his reasoning for spending that much.

austinchau: I'd bet you'd get decent coin for that signature...but to be honest i'd much rather have the whole check, it kind of makes me cringe to see it cut up.

Futureman

How accurate is the seller's claim that there are only "about 200 known autographs" of Maravich? I understand that they are going to be more scarce because of his death at a relatively young age, but was he notoriously a hard signer? Are there any other reasons for the high prices of his autographs? or is it just the mystique of the Pistol?

duner

I saw that quote too...i highly doubt there are only 200...but i'd be willing to bet there aren't 2000 out there...which means demand will always trump supply. then factor in that pretty much every picture he signed was pistol pete with his mystique and you have a very valuable commodity in anything signed with his last name. the last picture of his i saw with pete maravich on it went for over $1k....and it wasn't a great pic either.

Knuckles

<< <i>The thing that drove the price up, IMO, is the PSA/DNA holder - if you want to maximize the sale of your signed items on ebay, it seems that psa is the way to go. >>


Very true.. I paid $95 for a Jacques Plante autographed Postcard and received $355 for it after PSA/DNA encapsulated it.

jad22

I think a signed Maravich poster on Heritage sold for $900 last month. I was not crazy about the poster but it was
a nice item and much harder to come by than a check. Signed as "Pistol Pete" Maravich

Stone193

Guys
Here's another nice auto in a psa holder with no takers so far. I think the high starting bid along with the less than perfect sig may be affecting anyone pulling the trigger? The other auction started low - this just confirms what a lot of people think about high starting bids.

And Zindler is a really good name!

mike

Knuckles

High starting bids kill auctions..