Here is the little guy at the National last year in Chicago with the $1.2 million Wagner in his little paws. I was fine but mom was a nervous wreck. This past year he got to take a photo with the Babe Ruth game used bat, and also had Johnny Bench sign and personalize the photo they took last year at the Natty. As long as he enjoys it and has fun we will keep going.
Working on a run of box displays for him from mid 60's to mid 70's, a collection of 1956 PSA 6-8's of star cards, and my wife wants to get me some 1968's to start a set from my birth year. It is a fun hobby when your little one wants Aaron and Mantle cards and not Puig and Trout, and the wife has been to 4-5 Nationals with me and enjoys it as well. When your wife says " you need to get that card" while looking at Mantles's that is a good thing. Cannot wait until next year in Chicago!
<< <i>When your wife says " you need to get that card" while looking at Mantles's that is a good thing. >>
Um, you think? Does she have a sister? >>
I am very fortunate in the wife department. She always tells me to get stuff when I say " I want to pick up this or that." Of course I do the same, and as long as we are not spending over our limit or cranking up debt like the US Government we are good. I travel a lot with work and she likes to travel and visit places, so when I get home I want to chill and she wants to head out. Guess who wins that one? Give you a hint - I have been to 46 states
She likes to go to the National and she goes with us and stays and walks around all 2-3 days we are there. We even let her crack open some boxes back at the hotel every night. With anniversary coming up later this month maybe I will get some mid 70's racks!
Below, you will find a thread I wrote three years ago. My son is 6 now.
Today, I took my 3 year old to his first card show in Glendale, CA. Didn't really have a plan to purchase anything, maybe a few cheap modern Angel cards for my boy to get him hooked. Mostly I wanted to look around and submit some of my cut autos to get authenticated by PSA. While there, we stopped by the Memory Lane booth to check out what they had on display...see below for what we found!
That's right, a T206 Honus Wagner PSA 2. I asked the guy working if I could take a picture of it, and he asked if I wanted to hold it....like I'm going to turn that down. Plus, he let my son hold it too!!! I think I was the most excited guy in the room....well, until I walked by later and an older gentleman squealed like a little school girl after he got to hold it.
The Memory Lane guy said they were hoping to get around $800,000 for it! Hopefully, riding on the coattails of the recent auction of the SGC 3 that just sold for $1.2 million.
We also stopped by another auction house, (which I can't remember the name) that had a huge amount of Mantle's up for auction. See below for a couple pics that they let me take as well. I haven't been to a show for a few years (waiting for the National to come out to the west coast), and I am happy to report that every dealer I spoke with was very friendly and happy to talk about their collection. I can say that the show was not that crowded, so me and my son had no trouble walking around window shopping and like most report, the majority of shoppers were adult males, but I did see more than a handful of younger boys looking to buy cards.
Other then what I saw at the two auction houses, I was really excited to see a table with a great collection of Babe Ruth autos, his best was dark, bold and beautiful ($4,900 was the asking price).
Thank you for letting me share. Now I need to nap before the Angel game I'm taking my boy to tonight.
This is a photocopy of my old 53 Mantle that I sold back at the 1999 National- despite selling for a very nice sum would gladly take it back today. Used it for a wedding and down payment on the house I believe and I am sure nobody else on here has every done that...
The lines and cracks are not on the case. Back before IPhones... I would take my cards and make copies of them to catalog them and for insurance - the lines and "cracks" you speak of are on the paper and not the card itself.
If any of the 'is this PSACard case a crack' people show up here, that card and it's top left and other will make that POS case be tortured. >>
Not sure if I follow you here so will give you the benefit of the doubt. Are you saying that the image I posted is of a cracked PSA case and not as I represented it for what it is - a photocopy of the card I did back in 1999 on my color copier?
<< <i>YES and I will sue you .... AND ....your 1999 photo copier.... for lying to this world about that card ! FALSE REPRESENTATION IS YOU !
gotta love it. >>
Sorry to burst your bubble but the cracks are on the paper from the copy and not the case, and would not matter either way to me since I sold the card 15 years ago at the National in Chicago to one of the larger dealers who I was/am friends with. He did well, I did well, and someone somewhere has this card and has a great 53 Mantle.
Remember that night vividly as we went to Morton's after the show ended, and at dinner several of the larger collectors were passing around some of the greatest cards the hobby has seen - 33 Ruth in PSA 8, 52 Mantle in PSA 8, Cracker Jack Cobb and Jackson in 8's... Easily over $500k at the table being passed around before dinner started. Pretty neat stuff to this day.
Pretty dang cool card then I will probably never have one of those. And just think, no one knew back then at the time this card was made, what all the Mantle stuff would become. Nostalgic greatness.
Mantle's 52 contract ? 12-28-52 NYT. If it still exists, it is likely worth a lot more now. Be neat to have his 52 card or 53 card and his then current contract
<< <i>Impressive, Anthony! Did you manage to pocket it and get it past the armed guards? I think not.
Six that made the cut and two that are pretty close:
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Bob,
just read your article in smr and kudos on your collection and your set up! I like the organization. seems like ya gotta keeper in the mrs. department as well!
remembering seeing this ryan and obviously saw it again in the mag and still made me jealous...
Heck of a thread - sorry I missed it at the original time!
These weren't mine (they belonged to a friend) but I did orchestrate sales of three cards that would fit this category via the BST a few months back...
<< <i>Very nice Curt, are those the Mile High ones from last year your son is holding ?
To the OP question, yes. I also couriered a T206 Wagner for a friend of mine who bought it, fun and nerve wracking
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Publius, that friend and I were having drinks and all of a sudden he says "BTW, I just picked up this" and dropped the Wagner on the bar in front of me. Scotch shot out of my nose. I really miss that guy
Always looking for Topps Salesman Samples, pre '51 unopened packs, E90-2, E91a, N690 Kalamazoo Bats, and T204 Square Frame Ramly's
Joe, Those are from the Memory Lane booth at the National last year. I don't believe they ever went to auction, but rather were being sold at a fixed price. Hands down the nicest Nag I've ever seen.
<< <i>This is a photocopy of my old 53 Mantle that I sold back at the 1999 National- despite selling for a very nice sum would gladly take it back today. Used it for a wedding and down payment on the house I believe and I am sure nobody else on here has every done that...
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Not trying to dredge up an old thread, but the font doesn't look right on this flip. I tried to find a matching cert on VCP, but didn't have any luck.
I guess i may do now, since the 52 Mick is on a hot streak. @Begsus- Wow, i didnt know you had all those Micks!!! I knew of the Dice Game, and seen it before several times on n54. And of course we know Matty's Ruth and 52 Mick.
I think it's slightly cooler when that card you're holding is still in its raw, unslabbed state!
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<< <i>This is a photocopy of my old 53 Mantle that I sold back at the 1999 National- despite selling for a very nice sum would gladly take it back today. Used it for a wedding and down payment on the house I believe and I am sure nobody else on here has every done that...
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Not trying to dredge up an old thread, but the font doesn't look right on this flip. I tried to find a matching cert on VCP, but didn't have any luck. >>
Someone said that it was still in an 8 holder and never got bumped. Would love to know who has that card now. I think it went to a private collection back in 1999 and has not resurfaced. What about the cert number looks wrong?
The font on the flip looks wrong. I believe it is a counterfeited flip. Unfortunately, whoever owns the card now is going to have an unpleasant experience when it comes time to sell....
Not to dredge up an old thread, but the font on the flip seems fine, being that it is a picture of a photocopy of the actual item. Whoever owns the card now would only find it unpleasant when selling because it's a smoking card. Hopefully the $$$ will ease their pain.
Even though I have never held a 10k card, I am very surprised at some of the values of my cards. I never thought I'd own cards/a collection worth as much as it is. Peanuts to some here, but I'm happy with it!
Originally posted by: sushihotwings 500 k comic? Wow I had no idea there was such a high end market for comics? What would be an example of a half mill comic?
The 500K comic I'm thinking of (to be fair, it was expensive at the time, but probably more like $200k) was a mid to upper grade Detective #27 (the first appearance of Batman.) Highly prized even if in ragged condition. A few years back now, one certified as VF sold for just over a million, a bit nicer than the copy I held. And even then, I didn't hold the book itself, I held the plexiglas holder that contained it. Close as I was gonna get without opening the holder it was in (not a CGC slab, but one of the old "fortress" holders for comics. This was just prior to when CGC started, in the year 2000.)
Edit to add, the Detective #27 that sold for a million plus is #4 in the link LarkinCollector posted. It'd fetch more if sold today, probably in the range of $2 million plus that the highest available Action #1 sold for. Those two books, price-wise, are generally in competition for king of the hill for golden age comics.
Further fun fact regarding the very best Action #1 known, is probably "The Dentist's" copy which has never been graded, but is from the mile high collection (best/most famous comic pedigree to have, think like the Garrett collection or similar) and if graded, would probably rate a 9.4. It's never really been offered for sale, though the owner has said he would only sell it for "life-changing" money; that is to say, it is surely worth an awful lot ($5 million? More?) but he doesn't really need to sell it, and enjoys owning the very finest copy of the (arguably) very best golden age comic to own.
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<< <i>Do $10k+ packs count? >>
Just because you think having 500 unopened wax cases each of 1988 donruss, topps and score doesn't mean you have a $10,000 item.
Bob, did we not agree to a 10 percent finders fee on the 70 Cloth Ryan ?
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Here is the little guy at the National last year in Chicago with the $1.2 million Wagner in his little paws. I was fine but mom was a nervous wreck. This past year he got to take a photo with the Babe Ruth game used bat, and also had Johnny Bench sign and personalize the photo they took last year at the Natty. As long as he enjoys it and has fun we will keep going.
Working on a run of box displays for him from mid 60's to mid 70's, a collection of 1956 PSA 6-8's of star cards, and my wife wants to get me some 1968's to start a set from my birth year. It is a fun hobby when your little one wants Aaron and Mantle cards and not Puig and Trout, and the wife has been to 4-5 Nationals with me and enjoys it as well. When your wife says " you need to get that card" while looking at Mantles's that is a good thing. Cannot wait until next year in Chicago!
Bowman Baseball -1948-1955
Fleer Baseball-1923, 1959-2007
Al
<< <i>When your wife says " you need to get that card" while looking at Mantles's that is a good thing. >>
Um, you think? Does she have a sister?
bobsbbcards SGC Registry Sets
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<< <i>When your wife says " you need to get that card" while looking at Mantles's that is a good thing. >>
Um, you think? Does she have a sister?
I am very fortunate in the wife department. She always tells me to get stuff when I say " I want to pick up this or that." Of course I do the same, and as long as we are not spending over our limit or cranking up debt like the US Government we are good. I travel a lot with work and she likes to travel and visit places, so when I get home I want to chill and she wants to head out. Guess who wins that one? Give you a hint - I have been to 46 states
She likes to go to the National and she goes with us and stays and walks around all 2-3 days we are there. We even let her crack open some boxes back at the hotel every night. With anniversary coming up later this month maybe I will get some mid 70's racks!
looking for low grade t205's psa 1-2
Below, you will find a thread I wrote three years ago. My son is 6 now.
Today, I took my 3 year old to his first card show in Glendale, CA. Didn't really have a plan to purchase anything, maybe a few cheap modern Angel cards for my boy to get him hooked. Mostly I wanted to look around and submit some of my cut autos to get authenticated by PSA. While there, we stopped by the Memory Lane booth to check out what they had on display...see below for what we found!
That's right, a T206 Honus Wagner PSA 2. I asked the guy working if I could take a picture of it, and he asked if I wanted to hold it....like I'm going to turn that down. Plus, he let my son hold it too!!! I think I was the most excited guy in the room....well, until I walked by later and an older gentleman squealed like a little school girl after he got to hold it.
The Memory Lane guy said they were hoping to get around $800,000 for it! Hopefully, riding on the coattails of the recent auction of the SGC 3 that just sold for $1.2 million.
We also stopped by another auction house, (which I can't remember the name) that had a huge amount of Mantle's up for auction. See below for a couple pics that they let me take as well. I haven't been to a show for a few years (waiting for the National to come out to the west coast), and I am happy to report that every dealer I spoke with was very friendly and happy to talk about their collection. I can say that the show was not that crowded, so me and my son had no trouble walking around window shopping and like most report, the majority of shoppers were adult males, but I did see more than a handful of younger boys looking to buy cards.
Other then what I saw at the two auction houses, I was really excited to see a table with a great collection of Babe Ruth autos, his best was dark, bold and beautiful ($4,900 was the asking price).
Thank you for letting me share. Now I need to nap before the Angel game I'm taking my boy to tonight.
https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/pdub1819/othersets/6204
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<< <i>Do $10k+ packs count? >>
Just because you think having 500 unopened wax cases each of 1988 donruss, topps and score doesn't mean you have a $10,000 item. >>
lol. Hardly.
Always looking for Topps Salesman Samples, pre '51 unopened packs, E90-2, E91a, N690 Kalamazoo Bats, and T204 Square Frame Ramly's
If any of the 'is this PSACard case a crack' people show up here, that card and it's top left and other will make that POS case be tortured.
<< <i>bull
If any of the 'is this PSACard case a crack' people show up here, that card and it's top left and other will make that POS case be tortured. >>
Not sure if I follow you here so will give you the benefit of the doubt. Are you saying that the image I posted is of a cracked PSA case and not as I represented it for what it is - a photocopy of the card I did back in 1999 on my color copier?
gotta love it.
<< <i>YES and I will sue you .... AND ....your 1999 photo copier.... for lying to this world about that card ! FALSE REPRESENTATION IS YOU !
gotta love it. >>
Sorry to burst your bubble but the cracks are on the paper from the copy and not the case, and would not matter either way to me since I sold the card 15 years ago at the National in Chicago to one of the larger dealers who I was/am friends with. He did well, I did well, and someone somewhere has this card and has a great 53 Mantle.
Remember that night vividly as we went to Morton's after the show ended, and at dinner several of the larger collectors were passing around some of the greatest cards the hobby has seen - 33 Ruth in PSA 8, 52 Mantle in PSA 8, Cracker Jack Cobb and Jackson in 8's... Easily over $500k at the table being passed around before dinner started. Pretty neat stuff to this day.
Bowman Baseball -1948-1955
Fleer Baseball-1923, 1959-2007
Al
<< <i>Impressive, Anthony! Did you manage to pocket it and get it past the armed guards? I think not.
Six that made the cut and two that are pretty close:
Bob,
just read your article in smr and kudos on your collection and your set up! I like the organization. seems like ya gotta keeper in the mrs. department as well!
remembering seeing this ryan and obviously saw it again in the mag and still made me jealous...
-Bob
These weren't mine (they belonged to a friend) but I did orchestrate sales of three cards that would fit this category via the BST a few months back...
Montana Rice & Payton PSA 10 rookies
Very nice Curt, are those the Mile High ones from last year your son is holding ?
To the OP question, yes. I also couriered a T206 Wagner for a friend of mine who bought it, fun and nerve wracking
<< <i>How about some football....
<< <i>Very nice Curt, are those the Mile High ones from last year your son is holding ?
To the OP question, yes. I also couriered a T206 Wagner for a friend of mine who bought it, fun and nerve wracking
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Publius, that friend and I were having drinks and all of a sudden he says "BTW, I just picked up this" and dropped the Wagner on the bar in front of me. Scotch shot out of my nose.
I really miss that guy
Always looking for Topps Salesman Samples, pre '51 unopened packs, E90-2, E91a, N690 Kalamazoo Bats, and T204 Square Frame Ramly's
Those are from the Memory Lane booth at the National last year. I don't believe they ever went to auction, but rather were being sold at a fixed price. Hands down the nicest Nag I've ever seen.
"Common sense is the best distributed commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it"
<< <i>This is a photocopy of my old 53 Mantle that I sold back at the 1999 National- despite selling for a very nice sum would gladly take it back today. Used it for a wedding and down payment on the house I believe and I am sure nobody else on here has every done that...
Not trying to dredge up an old thread, but the font doesn't look right on this flip. I tried to find a matching cert on VCP, but didn't have any luck.
"Common sense is the best distributed commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it"
@Begsus- Wow, i didnt know you had all those Micks!!!
I knew of the Dice Game, and seen it before several times on n54. And of course we know Matty's Ruth and 52 Mick.
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<< <i>Always amazed to see either Joe D Zeenut with the coupon. The batting pose in Heritage went bananas last month. >>
I used to have one, but Uncle Sam was greedy on the 1099. Boy- i miss it
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<< <i>This is a photocopy of my old 53 Mantle that I sold back at the 1999 National- despite selling for a very nice sum would gladly take it back today. Used it for a wedding and down payment on the house I believe and I am sure nobody else on here has every done that...
Not trying to dredge up an old thread, but the font doesn't look right on this flip. I tried to find a matching cert on VCP, but didn't have any luck. >>
Someone said that it was still in an 8 holder and never got bumped. Would love to know who has that card now. I think it went to a private collection back in 1999 and has not resurfaced. What about the cert number looks wrong?
"Common sense is the best distributed commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it"
The closest to a really valuable card - not in had - just looking - at the 1992 National - PSA had the Gretzky PSA 8 Wagner on display.
No picture unfortunately.
Those with great cards? I'm in awe.
George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.
Conversely, I've held comics (not mine of course) that have ranged in value from $150K to 500K. Just not cards for whatever reason.
500 k comic? Wow I had no idea there was such a high end market for comics? What would be an example of a half mill comic?
Pretty much all of these qualify at $500k and up: 20 Highest Comic Sales
Edit to add, the Detective #27 that sold for a million plus is #4 in the link LarkinCollector posted. It'd fetch more if sold today, probably in the range of $2 million plus that the highest available Action #1 sold for. Those two books, price-wise, are generally in competition for king of the hill for golden age comics.
Further fun fact regarding the very best Action #1 known, is probably "The Dentist's" copy which has never been graded, but is from the mile high collection (best/most famous comic pedigree to have, think like the Garrett collection or similar) and if graded, would probably rate a 9.4. It's never really been offered for sale, though the owner has said he would only sell it for "life-changing" money; that is to say, it is surely worth an awful lot ($5 million? More?) but he doesn't really need to sell it, and enjoys owning the very finest copy of the (arguably) very best golden age comic to own.
Always looking for Topps Salesman Samples, pre '51 unopened packs, E90-2, E91a, N690 Kalamazoo Bats, and T204 Square Frame Ramly's