Robert Edwards Auction

Once again, the world's most impressive baseball memorabilia auction was a gathering ground for the hobby's premiere collectors. REA brings out the
competitive fire inside all of us. It was truly a fun event.

Unfortunately, we were not not very lucky last evening. We only won one lot, despite aggressively bidding on 16 lots. We were surprised that the Tattoo Orbit advertising piece doubled an guesstimate that Rob shared with us, and truly stunned by the $18,000 price tag for the Buffalo Fed League pennant. To the best of our knowledge that is 6x more than a Fed League
pennant had ever sold for.

Looking forward to hearing who won what.

Our single win was the Landis-Cobb photo.
http://bid.robertedwardauctions.com/...x?itemid=14536

Best,


Bruce Dorskind
America's Toughest Want List

[Rich Klein]

Your insights into the very high end market are always appreciated

Rich

[Bill Stone]

I thought the T210 Jackson @ $95,000 and T210 Stengel @ $20,000 were about right but I was stunned by the $18,000 for the 1914 Buffalo Federal League pennant . I thought my early bid on that item was excessive -boy was I wrong !

[bobbyw8469]

Got outbid for a lot I really wanted at 3 AM....while the auction says it is not geared towards people who can stay up the latest, it sure seems like it is....

[seablaster]

I struck out unfortunately.

I hope a board member picked up the Jimmy Collins cabinet. I would've loved to have picked up that lot and the Fatima premium.

I'm looking forward to hearing how everyone else fared.

[e107collector]

Originally Posted by Bill Stone

I thought the T210 Jackson @ $95,000 and T210 Stengel @ $20,000 were about right but I was stunned by the $18,000 for the 1914 Buffalo Federal League pennant . I thought my early bid on that item was excessive -boy was I wrong !

I agree with you Bill. I thought the SGC 40 Plank at $50,000 w/o the BP went a little cheap. Just my opinion.

Tony

[HercDriver]

I only track T202s and I definitely noticed a softer market in T202 singles than in past auctions. REA normally beats the "book" price by a wide margin, but that wasn't the case this time around. Did anybody notice that trend on any other of the popular sets?

Take Care,
Geno

[chiprop]

Originally Posted by Yankeefan51

Once again, the world's most impressive baseball memorabilia auction was a gathering ground for the hobby's premiere collectors. REA brings out the
competitive fire inside all of us. It was truly a fun event.

Unfortunately, we were not not very lucky last evening. We only won one lot, despite aggressively bidding on 16 lots. We were surprised that the Tattoo Orbit advertising piece doubled an guesstimate that Rob shared with us, and truly stunned by the $18,000 price tag for the Buffalo Fed League pennant. To the best of our knowledge that is 6x more than a Fed League
pennant had ever sold for.

Looking forward to hearing who won what.

Our single win was the Landis-Cobb photo.
http://bid.robertedwardauctions.com/...x?itemid=14536

Best,


Bruce Dorskind
America's Toughest Want List

6x? Jeff L- this may need some of your investigative skills!

I thought, once again, that some stuff went cheap like the t208s and some was in outerspace like the Boston store Ruth and the Drum Johnson both in the $30k range.

[calvindog]

Originally Posted by chiprop

6x? Jeff L- this may need some of your investigative skills!

Ha! Maybe you consigned it and you and one of your friends had a bidding party?

[e107collector]

I went 1 for 3, here is my only winning.

How did everyone else do?

[bcbgcbrcb]

My biggest priority was the Sol White cabinet card but $17.5 was out of my price range........

[Bobsbats]

Nice pickup Tony.....

[Matt]

The Plow's Candy Collins was the only thing I really wanted and it went a few thousand more then I wanted to go. I couldn't justify paying the condition premium.

[shammus]

Guys, I went ahead and merged the two "REA pickup threads" into one thread for us.....

For myself, I won three things either alone or with teams. Both e103 lots will be headed my way and I also won a large stake in the massive e93 lot - the one with 81 cards, 44 HOFers and 5 Wagners....

[M's_Fan]

This is my first Old Judge! I have a crazy goal of getting just one card from each HOFer in this set. This may never happen due to how expensive that would be, but to try will be fun.

[perezfan]

Originally Posted by Yankeefan51

Once again, the world's most impressive baseball memorabilia auction was a gathering ground for the hobby's premiere collectors. REA brings out the
competitive fire inside all of us. It was truly a fun event.

Unfortunately, we were not not very lucky last evening. We only won one lot, despite aggressively bidding on 16 lots. We were surprised that the Tattoo Orbit advertising piece doubled an guesstimate that Rob shared with us, and truly stunned by the $18,000 price tag for the Buffalo Fed League pennant. To the best of our knowledge that is 6x more than a Fed League
pennant had ever sold for.

Looking forward to hearing who won what.

Our single win was the Landis-Cobb photo.
http://bid.robertedwardauctions.com/...x?itemid=14536

Best,


Bruce Dorskind
America's Toughest Want List

The statement about the Buffalo Pennant selling for 6 X more than a past Federal League Pennant had sold for is completely wrong. Below is a link to a Baltimore Terrapins that previously sold for over $13,750. Others have sold for between 5 -10K as well.

Still an amazing price realized for the Buffalo piece...

http://legendaryauctions.com/LotDetail.aspx?lotid=23572

[M's_Fan]

I took the plunge into T205's with this card.

Its funny, before this auction I admired the T205's, but never felt compelled to buy one.

But for some reason this card came a callin'... Now I'm thinking a T205 HOF set might be in order.

[benchod]

That's a beautiful Speaker

[M's_Fan]

Originally Posted by benchod

That's a beautiful Speaker

Thanks! My first T205 is a bit of a tough act to follow. I plan on being in the SGC 40-60 range from here on out in this set.

[e107collector]

My invoice just updated, and it now reflects the correct amount for shipping.

Tony

[bbeck]

I have to agree with the other consignor regarding disappointing results. Consigned a 1/1 33 goudey (highest graded) that ended way below my expectations ($3,550 or so with the premium). Rob has great stuff but the catalog is so massive items do get overshadowed. In a smaller boutique auction house a similar card recently hit $7,000 with the premium. Another consignment also fell relatively flat. I usually pick Robert Edwards because it is in my backyard plus I can view every item. A couple of years back I gave them a Ruth signed photo which did okay but would have done much better if not for the exact same shot signed by Ruth included in the same auction. I did pick up the t207 SGC 60 Walter Johnson and the E120 Cobb. I think they were relatively fair deals.

Originally Posted by M's_Fan

I took the plunge into T205's with this card.

Its funny, before this auction I admired the T205's, but never felt compelled to buy one.

But for some reason this card came a callin'... Now I'm thinking a T205 HOF set might be in order.

Well you missed a very high grade Johnson that I am sure went for 1/2 price.

As far as wins I didn't even win the 2 lots I wanted. Might have to do with the extremely low price my card sold for. As a matter a fact I was told by REA that they always got the best prices because they have buyers that wait all year to buy. Just my luck I declined a $9800 offer for it on Ebay to sell it for $5000 on REA because they are the best. Hell I would give 25% of what it sold for just to get it back. Oh well I guess I learned my lesson that if you want to lose money on a card consign it to an auction house so massive that even some of the better cards in the hobby are pushed to the back and shadowed by the monsters

[Mrc32]

Originally Posted by Pup6913

Oh well I guess I learned my lesson that if you want to lose money on a card consign it to an auction house so massive that even some of the better cards in the hobby are pushed to the back and shadowed by the monsters

Andrew- I'm sorry that happened to you. Your card is awesome. I think there is certainly some truth to what you said. This was one stacked auction.

[T206DK]

That really sucks about your card Andrew. My opinion on REA's auction is that there were so many lots and because it's only a once a year gig.....some cards get overshadowed. That T210 Stengel card's price was way low in my opinion. the buyer of that card got a true deal. I also think the buyer of the two large N172 lots got good deals there too. I wonder how many bidders participated this time around ?

[ubiqty]

Matt and Tony,

Congrats to everyone who won something.

It was a good night for me. I won the e90-1 Wagner PSA 4 and the Hoy. They were my #1 and #2 hopes. If the person who won the ER Williams game wants to deal the Hoy, please let me know.

And the quest continues.

Scott (ubiqty)

[Touch'EmAll]

Major HOF'ers T206 in PSA 5 & 6 had some very high final prices.

with buyers premium:
Cobb - red PSA 5 - $3,525. ............way over SMR
Cobb - bat on PSA 5 - $3,525. ...........over SMR
W.Johnson - hands chest PSA 5 - 1,880. .........over SMR
Cobb - green PSA 5 - $6,462. ............way over SMR
Cobb - green PSA 6 - $14,100. ...........way over SMR
Matty - portrait PSA 6 - $3,525.
Cy Young - portrait PSA 5 - $3,819. ........super way much over SMR
Matty - dark cap PSA 6 - $3,525. ..........way over SMR

Three weeks ago I had listed on ebay a T206 Cobb green PSA 5 (outstanding centering) listed for $5,200. - nobody bought - scratch head - then this Cobb green PSA 5 goes for nearly $6,500. hmmm.

And that Cy Young portrait PSA 5 at over $3,800. - WOW !!!

steve

[tennisguy]

The E107 Keeler is a sweet card, but 22K+ I couldn't believe!!

[terjung]

Originally Posted by tennisguy

The E107 Keeler is a sweet card, but 22K+ I couldn't believe!!

You and me both, Ryan. Sale price was $21,150, but still...
Somebody wanted that one very badly.

[DICKTOWLE]

Did anybody out there buy the the four sets taped on paper, looking to partner up on the tape removel.