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Originally Posted by DezHood
Hi Jeff, I just saw that too - it shows 4 bids, so someone probably met that minimum bid, but it also shows a starting bid of 1$ and it isn't displaying how high the bidding got which is strange. Interestingly about 18 of them sold - that's the most I've ever noticed in a single auction - that's about half the set done and the toughest card out of the way had someone gone after all of them.
Finally, I was reading the inside cover of the new GG yesterday and it mentions there are only 4 known examples.... Does that sound about right? I had no idea the card was that rare.
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When I looked at that Dunlop yesterday (or the day before?) before the bidding ended, it was up over $10K and had not yet reached its reserve. I don't believe another bid was place on it but could be wrong.
The card is rare, but not POP 4 rare. Maybe someone meant there were 4 at a certain grade? Old articles (70s-80s) place the total POP of the Dunlop at under 10. More recently I've seen numbers that say its more like 20+ that are known to exist. Once the card started getting exposure and the player on it was identified, copies started coming out of the woodwork.
It's still one of my all-time favorite cards but the real star of the Mayo set is the Frank Hinkey card. He was THE MAN and hope someone snagged the one that was in that auction. If it was SGC I probably would have taken a run at it. Grading of Mayos is soooo inconsistent that I don't even try to cross them.
jeff