Watching Christies
 

Really impressed with their website and bidding platform. Not surprising, but it is total state of the art. I'm signed up to bid (haven't) but it couldn't be any simpler and easier to use. Balancing live bidders, phone and internet. Smooth as silk. And they move quick. No time wasted.

I'm in the room right now, this is tremendously fun to watch.

Guy is good. Pleasant but efficient and no BS. I may attend tomorrow.

I am watching online.....very slick, easy and professional....

In case anyone is interested in what the room looks like.

Wow!! Expected bigger! I've been watching online. No bids yet. I'm very impressed with the platform as well.

Only in NYC do people show up ready to drop a million dollars in a ratty looking sweatshirt. I'm guessing if this was in Dallas everyone would be wearing a suit.

Well, I made an effort over the phone on one item, but came up a little short. Maybe I'll try again. They make it easy to bid!

Heritage used to have a similar live platform for some of their larger auctions, but I don't remember any of the recent ones being live as well. Do they still do their live ones?

Some more photos from the preview, every item from both days was on view.

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Thanks Jason. Very cool.

That Spalding bat rack was very cool. If I had a bat collection would have been all over it.

I was fortunate enough to be there, and had a great time. I had to leave to catch my flight around noon but was fortunate enough to win lots 14 and 41. 14 I paid full retail and Lot 41 was a steal in my opinion. I will post pictures later.

Here is lot 41 in the back of the cab rid to the airport.

missed lot 93, if anyone knows the winner i'd be interested...

It is a beauty -- and it blew away the$6-7 K estimate, finishing at $50,000 -- including the 25% buyer's premium.

when does the next session start?

Tomorrow 10am. Photos.

In LA it would be shorts and maybe an old ratty t-shirt, flip-flops optional.

Congrats on that one Bob!! That was the one lot I bid on. Looks to be in nice shape. Enjoy! :)
Michael

How does one acquire a prices realized list?

http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/l...=6021348&lid=1

Click link and you can scroll lot-by-lot.

They made $6.2 million today. Was the under better on several autograph lots.

Tazmb: There was a Ruth signed ball today that was a nice specimen but I thought it went off at an astronomically insane price. Not saying Ruth autograph balls are a dime a dozen, but there are a lot of them obviously. Am I off on that one?

No the Ruth wasn't even that great of an example, and the price was insane-$35,000. It seemed (to me) the bigger the name went for bigger above market. A Snider contract went for more than a Clemente.

$35,000 + $8,750 = $43,750.

Did anyone win Lot 11, the group of Old Judge cabinets?

Sorry, does anyone know how to print out the entire prices realized list?

Maybe the guy in the pink shirt :)

Lot 1. Trophy bat
 

Sorry I'm on a plane so my connection is terrible. Did lot 1 sell or is it going today? Thanks. Aaron

It went yesterday I believe

Lots 1 through I think 251 were yesterday. Today starts at Lot 261.

Lot 129 anyone win that here?

I heard that the grouping was, in fact, *not* all Old Judge cabinets. I believe that two were studio cabinets and one was a Dog's Head cabinet, according to a friend of mine who was at Christie's for the preview.

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I saw him :).... He wins everything.

Actually he did not win that lot.

Scott: mystery man in pink shirt says he was the underbidder. Just as well; he would be better served spending the money on some different color shirts.

Pink is the new blue
 

Ease up, guys. It's just a shirt.

Actually it was the white loafers that was over the top.

It must be a New York thing

Magee Horner went for a lot of money. Had my eye on that one.

I actually think it went cheap. I was the under bidder but just too much to bid on. Horners with full mounts are rare..especially an iconic card.

I don't know how to read Christie's. Their estimate on the Magee was $1,500 and it went for well beyond that. But then I see other stuff like a generic stadium photo appraised at $700 and can't understand why.

Four thousand for a mid grade Horner cabinet is a LOT of money. Well beyond what I believe most expected. I have several that I would sell for for 4k, willing to bet no one would even show a trace of interest.

Jay.....I'm not sure the man in pink in the photo would like your NY comparison.......

I am also willing to bet yours aren't a key card to the t206 set.

I regret not buying it. It was a very good price. If you have a Magee, with full mount I will buy it from you.

The estimates were all over the place... probably based on what were originally paid for. They surely didn't go by the recent sales or by current market.

That was a lot of fun! Wish all auctions were conducted that way. I couldn't tear myself away from the screen and loved to see what each item eventually hammered for. Gotta say the auctioneer today was much easier on the eyes than the one yesterday. :-)

Indeed she was. A Brit doing a baseball auction. Every once in a while she would pronounce something different and it amused me. Maryland was always "Mary" Land".

The oddest thing I noticed today was that some of the Ty Cobb photos went for rock bottom prices. There was a lot of them.

I was watching that one too. Figured it would go way higher than that. Especially considering what the other cabinets went for.

Tom C

Christies stuff that I didn't get, but now want
 

This was a super fun (and sometimes stressful) auction, but I really enjoyed it in the end. Given the huge quantities of material, I was bound to wish that I had gotten some things. If someone has buyer's remorse, I would be willing to buy the following lots for the next increment:

33 Page Fence cabinet ($8.5k)
68 Lloyd/Williams bat ($7k)
135 Charleston bat (10k)
203 Cd. Trujillo photo ($5.5k)
334 Hilldate/Daisies panorama ($5.5k)

Very fun auction.... wish that these happened more frequently, but my wallet could not afford it!

The traditional auction format has its merits--very clean, straight-forward and fast. Still, I was saving my cash for one of the later lots, and so I didn't make a serious effort at a couple of earlier lots that either passed or went under the low estimate. I guess that I wish that they would let me pick the order of lots.