1869 Peck & Snyder Cincinnati Red Stockings - I was close

bbcemporium

I just put a bid of $17,000 for the 1869 Peck & Snyder Cincinnati Red Stockings card recently discovered. I was promptly outbid. At least I can tell my grandkids now that I was in the running for one of the best baseball cards in existence.

Stingray

I guess that is kind of cool.

bman90278

I'm glad you are happy. You should put in a few more bids and see how high it goes before you get scarred.

Brian

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Ironmanfan

supposedly, the woman who found the card was supposed to be on TV with Jay Leno last night. Anyone catch it?

Karb

Yeah I watched it last night. She pretty much said what was written in the article posted a while ago. They showed it in the PSA holder and that was about it.

2dueces

There is alot of hype going with this card. It's a cool story of her find, but the card is not as rare and the hype os over blown. There are far more rarer cards. I know someone who has had one for sale for awhile now with no bites.

bbcemporium

Yeah, I watched Leno. I keep on hearing that the card is "the first baseball card made". I'm not sure how someone proves that, but I'm assuming they mean that it is the earliest year that a baseball card has been discovered. Anyone, I can tell you it is worth more than $17,000. I'm guessing with all of the publicity it will go for over $500,000.

Morgoth

She said on Leno it may be worth 1 mil. I don't see how.

ElToroLoco

Yeah, I caught the Leno show too. Too bad she didn't put up a BIN of $9.95. Someone would have been really happy to get that submission back from PSA. It is wishful thinking that it would go for 1 million, although very possible if it was PSA 8 or 9. With all the hype surrounding it, and the condition it is in, I can see it going for 150K-180K. Maybe someone should start a contest thread for it.

intence

link to said auction?

Gonblott

<< <i>She said on Leno it may be worth 1 mil. I don't see how. >>

bbcemporium

Here is the auction at Memory Lane

MantleMarisFordBerra

Nice to see our hobby get some positive national attention for once as opposed to "Operation Foul Ball" & "Operation Bullpen", not to mention the two jokers trying to sell the fake Wagner.

sbtrailrider

Here is an email from the reporter in Fresno who wrote the story. This link goes to the 2nd article he wrote. This is in reply to my contacting him at the paper and asking that he have her talk to the major auction houses instead of ebay. I guess I wasn't the only one with this suggestion...

Here's my latest story on Bernice Gallego and the 1869 baseball card. She was on Jay Leno's "Tonight Show" last night and the card is up for auction currently.http://www.fresnobee.com/local/story/1142620.html You're getting this e-mail because many, many people wrote me about Bernice's story and (I'm sorry to say) I haven't written all of you back yet. I was out of town for almost two weeks when the story broke nationally. Nonetheless, many people asked for updates on the story. So here ya go. For those of you who e-mailed asking what a particular item you have is worth -- I must say that is not my area expertise. I'm just a newspaper reporter who found this story. I'd suggest going to your local card shop, collectibles store or doing some sleuthing on Google. Thanks for reading and writing. Mike

Link to the 2nd story in the Fresno paper

I hope she does well by the auction. After all the searching though discarded "treasures" she finally has one.

jrinck

The Leno segment was more about the lady than the card. I think they only zoomed in on the card for about two seconds, or something like that.

It's a cool story about how she found it and almost sold it for peanuts, but they could have done a little more in actually showing the card.

jeffcbay

I always wondered why they mounted that card the wrong way, so the back appeared to be upside down.

bbcemporium

Hey, I knew I bid on this card for a reason. Look what I received in the mail today just for bidding