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Is $204,000 a new record for a single hockey card ?

1970s1970s Posts: 3,093 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Lelands just sold this at auction.

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  • HighGradeLegendsHighGradeLegends Posts: 1,693 ✭✭✭✭

    Looks nice!

  • shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,631 ✭✭✭✭

    Call me crazy, but I think that card still has room to grow in value.

    "My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."
  • RedHeart54RedHeart54 Posts: 2,286 ✭✭✭

    Amazing card.

    The hockey record is still held by the PSA 10 OPC Gretzky rookie. (I believe it sold for $475,000.)

  • dan89dan89 Posts: 491 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Agree 100%, if I had the money I would consider that a bargain.

    @shagrotn77 said:
    Call me crazy, but I think that card still has room to grow in value.

  • AANVAANV Posts: 362 ✭✭✭

    Whoever purchased that card received a genuine bargain. I would have expected 50% higher.

    To answer your question, the sale of the Wayne Gretzky OPC RC 10 as a pop 1 is still the all-time record for a hockey card.

  • LOTSOSLOTSOS Posts: 1,310 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It becomes the 2nd most ever paid for a Hockey card. Although if either of the 2 OPC PSA 10s or even maybe the Topps PSA 10 Gretzky were to hit the block those would blow the current record away.

    Kevin

  • LefthanderLefthander Posts: 98 ✭✭

    Speaking of Bobby Orr, only two PSA 8 1966 Topps Bobby Orr (regular set) rookies were sold in all of 2018 (at least publically): one PSA 8 in a Heritage auction in November for $33,600 and the other in a PWCC Ebay auction in December for $35,109. As I have often said, this card has become to hockey what 1952 Topps Mantles are to baseball... not in comparable dollar value of course but as the iconic card in its sport. Incidentally, their population in PSA 8 and higher (without qualifiers) is similar: 49 Mantles and 47 Orrs (regular set). Amazingly, only one Bobby Orr rookie has been graded PSA 8 and higher (a new PSA 8 in early 2018) during the past five years.

  • GreenSneakersGreenSneakers Posts: 916 ✭✭✭✭

    The only thing keeping that card from being 50% higher is that I haven’t hit the Powerball (yet).

  • TomiTomi Posts: 643 ✭✭✭

    Does anyone have a list of the highest single card sales in all sports including non-sports?

  • addicted2ebayaddicted2ebay Posts: 2,101 ✭✭✭✭

    @Tomi said:
    Does anyone have a list of the highest single card sales in all sports including non-sports?

    https://www.stadiumtalk.com/s/most-expensive-baseball-cards-985687df1bbe45c5

    I’m betting the next Baltimore News Ruth sale will be #1 on that list.

  • jay0791jay0791 Posts: 3,586 ✭✭✭✭

    I agree with m crazy and above.
    If I had that coin just doing nothing that card is a bargain.

    Collecting PSA... FB,BK,HK,and BB HOF RC sets
    1948-76 Topps FB Sets
    FB & BB HOF Player sets
    1948-1993 NY Yankee Team Sets
  • DarinDarin Posts: 7,402 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I was on the PWCC site earlier and noticed they sold a magic the gathering card (whatever that is)
    for $53,000 so anything is possible. The sky is the limit!

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