Rare baseball cards make Antiques Roadshow history

TopographicOceans · January 6, 2015 3:15PM

$1 million appraisal

MrNearMint · January 6, 2015 3:31PM

Offering her $5,000 is a joke.

I would have doubled that!

ssollars · January 6, 2015 3:53PM

All PSA 1s since they have now been pinned to a board!

pauldrolkees · January 6, 2015 4:01PM

<< <i>All PSA 1s since they have now been pinned to a board!

>>

Make cut autos out of those letters obviously.

Raulsmaster · January 6, 2015 10:03PM

That's a monster number but I would be willing to bet on the over should they go to auction

FavreFan1971 · January 7, 2015 12:49AM

....... and the IRS just set up of 2017 audit on her.

dennis07 · January 7, 2015 1:14AM

"All PSA 1s since they have now been pinned to a board! "

I'm sure you know that those were magnets and not pins.
You know it's a good find when the appraiser gets choked up just putting a number on an item.

mikeschmidt · January 7, 2015 6:57AM

$5,000 is certainly a joke, but so is a million dollars.

Definitely a six figure find, but ~60% - 70% less than that which the appraiser quoted.

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bxb · January 7, 2015 7:33AM

<< <i>All PSA 1s since they have now been pinned to a board!

>>

I read on one of the other boards that the cards are all trimmed.

So they won't even get a PSA 1; authentic only at best.

Still a nice find and quite rare.

ssollars · January 7, 2015 8:43AM

<< <i>"All PSA 1s since they have now been pinned to a board! "

I'm sure you know that those were magnets and not pins.
You know it's a good find when the appraiser gets choked up just putting a number on an item. >>

Yes, but even magnets I would be leery of on something of that magnitude. If even gradable, I doubt any of them would grade all that high, but still, if I had something like that and they ended up with surface indentations or scratches from those magnets I would be livid!

seebelow · January 7, 2015 9:18AM

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They're actually scorecards from the Boston games of 1871...they are known as "Mort Rodgers score cards". Which were basically novelty cards...two dozen different ones exist and at least over a hundred total are out there. Their value no where near a million dollars.
...all per Keith Olbermann who also has some of the cards himself. Man knows his baseball history. Would love to sit down to just chat. Thanks.

I do love baseball history and the history of those little cardboard pieces.

psychump · January 7, 2015 9:32AM

Plus the owner said they were cut to fit an album. I like how the appraiser gets choked up near the end of the video. Good knowledge seebelow!

BLUEJAYWAY · January 7, 2015 1:46PM

Wonder what her, Leila Dunbar, credentials are in valuing sports related mdse. Where/who she has gained her expertise from in the sports memorabilia valuing field. Anyone?

vols1 · January 7, 2015 2:41PM

I watched the show and she said they should be insured for $1 million. She did not give an appraisal like they usually do. And she made a biggest deal of the letter signed by the team, but it was on two separate pages so it's not really one single team signed document.

BLUEJAYWAY · January 7, 2015 5:12PM

<< <i>Dunbar was a longtime VP at Sotheby's and director of their collectibles department. She was head of their sports memorabilia auctions, including for the Halper auction and back when SCP Auctions and Sotheby's auctioned together.

Knowledgeable people have said $1 million seems a stretch, but I offer no opinion about that.

I help install exhibits at an art gallery, and they use magnets to 'pin' delicate items, such as silks and prints, to the wall. They first place a metal strip on the wall. >>

Thanks for the background on Ms.Dunbar.

seebelow · January 7, 2015 9:02PM

Oh Keith also said how she was completely erroneous concerning the Spalding "card". How she was incorrect about him using the first mitt or his stores made to popularize it...I'm not sure of the exact quote. And how the spalding brand and it's role in commercializing the baseball mitt. In essence, she got a lot of facts wrong.

Rare baseball cards make Antiques Roadshow history

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