What grade can I expect for these sigs/What do you think it is worth ?
TNTonPMS
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I'm going to be getting some of my vintage baseballs graded , How do you think it will grade ? also how much do you think I could get for it if I sold it ? This one is a 1932 NY Yankees, only one signature is a clubhouse , the Jimmy Burke , all the rest are authentic vintage
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My wife has been pushing me now to maybe try to sell this because I have been offered a pretty nice sized contract for a few buildings in Manhattan , that could in turn cause my business to grow .
So instead of getting a loan , I am thinking now , if I could get enough of what I need from this I might not have to get the loan , or at least not as much of one .
Everytime I see that ball - it gets better!
The sigs are very strong - obviously the ball is toned.
I assume that will affect the grade.
Personally, unless they're gonna give it a high grade - I would just want it authenticated by PSA and put up in one of the better auctions - see what they say about a reserve?
Also - since it's a great item - and the juice has gone up so much in recent moons - if the % they wanna take is high - try to negotiate?
Good luck
mike
The only thing I know about auctions and stuff is what I have read you guys talk about here and from watching some of the past auctions from Herritage /Mastros and Sotheby's which I guess leaves the door way open for me to take a beating .
I have never sold anything of mine , given away plenty but never dealt with selling so my knowledge is zero when it comes to all that .
As far as authentication , they have been authenticated by JSA, do you thing I should also have it authenticated by PSA as well ?
It is my understanding Spence pulls as much weight in the authentication industry as PSA ?
Mr.Allen no I did not purchase any of the vintage that I have they were all left to me .
Nobody was more surprised than I was, to make a really long story short
That is one of my favorites , especially when the person thinks they have nothing special and then they find out they have been sitting ona gold mine all those years , that is the best !
I took this baseball to Cooperstown and talked to a gentleman named Tom Catal at Safe at Home collectibles , he used to be Mickey mantles signing agent and he damn near fell over when he saw it , he said , man if I didn't know any better I would think this thing was just signed 10 minutes ago , I brought the LOA from Spence and he laughed " I didn't need to see that , I'm actually a better authenticator than Jimmy , this ball is the most amazing ball I have ever seen in my life and look where I am "
For about a good half an hour he was showing it to everyone in his place , customers , staff , everyone . . . the ball is a real show stopper , he said if I ever put it in an auction there would be a bidding war without question .
I actually wanted to find out if the hall would want to display it , but he was like , what are you crazy ?? It might sit in the basement for years , don't do that , so I never pursued that any further .
Lelands Winter 2006 1927 Yankees Signed Ball
If you decide to consign, you can always set a reserve but I think you're going to get somewhere in the neighborhood of ~$10K without a problem, and I'd be very surprised if it didn't go much higher.
That is an incredible piece .
Jeeeezis .
Too bad my ball is darker than that one , that thing is white as a ghost !
When ya see it in person it really isn't quite as dark as the pics show up on the screen , but it is toned , I think it's got great contrast though .
So that is an 8 though ??
Thank you for finding that picture Mr.Moosedog, That helps a bit .
Maybe some of you might be able to answer if they will grade a baseball that wasn't autheticated by them and if it will have to be first ?
But I did aske them that question too .
My reason for wanting to know if they would do it at a show is because I just do not want to ship the baseball anywhere for the obvious reasons .
I have been looking at the highest graded baseball to date on this thread , the 1927 .
The baseball received a {9}
The signatures received a {7}
The final grade is NM-MT 8 overall .
I took my baseball out today to look at it and I think I got that thing beat by a mile and a half .
The signatures on my baseball are 5 times what that one is and the baseball is not anywhere as toned as how it comes up on the computer after scan , as a matter of fact is it just slightly off white .
Although I do have a few places on the baseball that have these tiny brown spots , they are nothing major .
I think my baseball will rank higher , but I absolutely will not ship it anywhere and I hope they do offer this service at shows .
Or else I guess I might have to take a trip to the West coast , just to get this thing graded .
Is it possible that my baseball could pull a higher grade overall compared to this other one because of the stronger strength of the signatures , which obviously are twice as strong ??