Pricing an autograph collection..........

tennesseebanker

I have several baseball cards from the 50's up to the 80's with most cards being in the 60's; of autographed cards that I received TTM and/or traded with other members at SCN. This includes a partially signed 86 Donruss set of approximately 300-300 signed cards. Without going through all the work it would take to individually price and sell these how should I break these up, and what would be a fair price ? Some of the players are deceased and some were scarce signors. I know know this is a vague question without knowing all the details of what I have, but generally what do collections of this size go for ?? Here are a few pics ............

tennesseebanker

These are generally just a few years from the 60's that I have. And I know that I have sold maybe a few of these like the Choo-Choo Coleman. But I just wanted to give a general representation of the cards. Also have a few from the 70's, 80's.

otwcards

Price points can be all over the board. Typically, commons are best served being pieced and individually priced out as they go for a few bucks per unit in bulk. The toughies and keys can be the gravy.

If you decide to break anything up, I'd be interested in the '61 Marichal. Love those ballpoint sigs...

tennesseebanker

Scott, Unfortunately it appears I sold the Marichal a while back.

tennesseebanker

However, looking through I did find a few other HOF'ers including a 66 Robin Roberts, a 68 Brooks Robinson #530 Bird Belters, a 73 Tony Perez, 76 Carlton Fisk,76 McCovey, 77 Fisk, 77 Ferguson Jenkins,79 Gary Carter, 78 Sparky Anderson, 79 Andre Dawson, and a few Hof'ers in the 86 Donruss set including Ripken & Henderson.

mrmopar

Any tougher/less common Dodgers in the batch and might they be available?

You can get a lot of the common signers on ebay for anywhere from $1-5 pretty easily. Obviously stars and more obscure players will sell better. There is a 1961 Tony Curry up right now for example and I believe the sellers is looking for around $125. No star power, but obviously obscure. Seems Mr. Curry didn't sign much and apparently lived out most of his post baseball life in his native Bahamas after baseball. I was just in Nassau on vacation and was thinking how cool it would have been to have a chance to meet him, had he still been alive.