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Posted By: Eric Brehm

Forgive the post-war digression, but that was a real exceptional 1962 Topps PSA 8 set that Goodwin sold. The cards looked like they were pulled straight out of packs. Most had near perfect centering too. Whoever put that set together really had a good eye for quality. That's the only explanation I can see as to why those cards did so well in the auction. Most of the star and rookie cards brought 2X to 5X SMR value, or higher. And the scarce commons and starter lots all brought very strong prices as well.

The Maris/Cepeda card that Peter S. pointed out sold for over $5000 is hard to fathom. VCP shows eight sales of that card in PSA 8 in the last 13 months at an average price of $171.33. (SMR value is $175.) The card is offered frequently for sale at about book price -- so why would bidders want to run up the price for this particular one like that? Just one of those crazy things that happens in auctions once in a while, I suppose.

Does anyone have a feel for how the pre-war material (e.g. T3's, Cracker Jacks, M116's) did in the Goodwin auction, generally speaking, price-wise?