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A $90 "common" now up to $11,000

AUPTAUPT Posts: 806 ✭✭✭
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80 years after their issue, we're still learning some cards' secrets.

We list this card at $90 NM in the Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards.

In the Heritage Oct. 1 auction, it's already up to $11,000

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Click on my blog link below for the whole story.

Comments

  • ReljacReljac Posts: 758
    someone is really wanting a gallon of ice cream!

  • DboneesqDboneesq Posts: 18,219 ✭✭
    Well .. if your grandfather was one of the ones who surrendered a complete set (60) of those Baseball Stars for one gallon of Harrington's Ice Cream ... that Ice Cream better have been AMAZING ... down to the last scoop! LOL
    STAY HEALTHY!

    Doug

    Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
  • stevekstevek Posts: 30,228 ✭✭✭✭✭
    madness image
  • gumbyfangumbyfan Posts: 5,168 ✭✭✭
    In a shocking twist, the winning bidder will actually receive a gallon of 80 year old ice cream.
  • AUPTAUPT Posts: 806 ✭✭✭
    image

    Mmmmmm . . . blue moon
  • TheHunTheHun Posts: 1,690
    I think this is from the same set.

    Anyone know its BV ?

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  • purduepetepurduepete Posts: 791 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I think this is from the same set.

    Anyone know its BV ?

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    The 2009 SCD Standard Catalog lists the '28 Harrington's Ruth at:
    NM-$5000
    EX-$2000
    VG-$1000

    Hope this helps...
    Tom

    Collecting: Topps 1952-79, Bowman 1952-55, OPC 1965-71, and Pre-War White Sox cards
  • TheHunTheHun Posts: 1,690
    thank Tom.

    cheers
  • SDSportsFanSDSportsFan Posts: 5,178 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Could be that the Earl Smith card was the short-print that kept people from completing their sets, and therefore limited the amount of ice cream the company had to give away.


    Steve
  • AUPTAUPT Posts: 806 ✭✭✭
    That's the supposition put forth on my blog. (Sorry about not getting it posted until this morning.)
  • TheHunTheHun Posts: 1,690
    Bob,

    Can you tell me if the cards that were redeemed for a prize were indeed returned to the original sender ?

    If so, did that include the Babe Ruth card that was used for single redemption ? Did they have a way of "cancelling" the Ruth card - how can we tell ?

    cheers for any insight you can offer.
  • SDSportsFanSDSportsFan Posts: 5,178 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hi Bob,

    I just read your blog, and regarding your hypothesis about the green print...

    Are any of the other Harrington's cards known to exist in both green, and black & white print? If so, that would seem to back up your idea about the cards being printed in black & white, and then exchanged for green printed ones. If not, and the Smith is the only one known in green, then I would lean to the theory that it was printed only in green to begin with.

    Also, if any of the cards are known to exist in "cancelled" form, then that would lead me to believe also that the Smith was only printed in green.


    Steve
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