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James GalloI just got back from this sale the cards went NUTS and it was all to ebay biddres and a few cobbs went to phone bidders. I didn't think those cobbs were trimmed so glad I didn't get them. I knew one of the Mattys was trimmed and it went for $600+.
Considering I spent 6+ hours looking over the cards I thought I had a good handle on the condition and value. My gut is that everything went for 70-80% of retail which is nuts considering there were probably more trimmed cards then I noticed and they were all raw.
This was a single owner collection that was passed down, so any trimming was done ages ago.
I also was not happy with the auctionieer. He kept VERY long counts which made it very hard to close on a lot regardless of if it was phone, floor or internet bidders.
I would say that probably only 10-15 card lots sold to floor bidders and most people didn't win more then 1 or 2.
I found it interesting that there were not a lot of odd cards with only a 2-3 ghost images and nothing totally nuts.
I will post more on the lot I won later as well as the details of the sale total as I kept track.
James G
Looking for 1915 Cracker Jacks and 1909-11 American Caramel E90-1.