Mayo John Dunlop Auction

[kevinlenane]

There is a Mayo Cut Plug John Dunlop on kind of an obscure-ish auction site here:

http://sportscardlink.com/auctions/i...541&id=1106541

It's extremely rare and considered the "Honus" of football cards - its still priced pretty reasonably all things considered. I'm actually considering bidding on it but I wanted to hear others thoughts on the true value of the card. Any thoughts?

[revmoran]

If I were chasing this set I'd think this was a good opportunity to get a nice example of that card - and right now at a fair price - but the price of this card is the reason I gave up chasing the set.

[Beansballcardblog]

I definitely want to just own a card from the set. A couple of those lower priced ones are intriguing, just to say I have and to have a new oldest card in my collection.

[TanksAndSpartans]

Kevin, did you check VCP? There's no guarantee they have it, but for 3.99 worth a try. Even with your post here, assuming the min bid isn't already above market, someone may get a deal - that AH was never on my radar anyway. And I think the card has really good eye appeal for the grade.

[jefferyepayne]

I believe there was a hidden reserve on that card and it didn't sell. Not a big fan of hidden reserves.

jeff

[TanksAndSpartans]

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.

[loubrown]

Interesting stuff. We had a Dunlop + a number of other Mayo FB cards and boxers walk in to our shop about 4 years ago. Today we had 6 of them (no Dunlop of course/unfortunately) walk in. What are the odds? They appear to be trimmed (very minimal) though they have a great appearance otherwise. Just sent them off to SGC. The group included Hinkey, Thorpe, Poe, Murphy, Manahan and 1 other.

[jefferyepayne]

Originally Posted by loubrown

Interesting stuff. We had a Dunlop + a number of other Mayo FB cards and boxers walk in to our shop about 4 years ago. Today we had 6 of them (no Dunlop of course/unfortunately) walk in. What are the odds? They appear to be trimmed (very minimal) though they have a great appearance otherwise. Just sent them off to SGC. The group included Hinkey, Thorpe, Poe, Murphy, Manahan and 1 other.

That's really cool, Lou. Most of those are difficult ones to find, too.

There's no Thorpe in the Mayo set, though. Maybe it is Thorne?

jeff

[jefferyepayne]

Saw this Dunlop got moved to ebay. Starting bid of $14,995.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/351726287085...%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

jeff

[TanksAndSpartans]

I saw the one on eBay too. I like the eye appeal of the one that started the post much better.

[loubrown]

Yes. Sorry for the error. Thorne not Thorpe.