Old Judge News Letters

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Posted By: Nickinvegas

Does any one know if these are available for sale through other venues? Original or reproduced, I sure would like to get them. Lew also had some other publications that ended tonight,quite high might I add...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=31719&item=2793889120

Regards,
Nick

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Posted By: Jeff O

...that ended high. $55 for vol. 1 of the Encyclopedia? I've listed my duplicate copy twice and never got the $10 minimum bid. $89 for the 1968 ACC? These usually go for $10-20, tops. $216 for Horne's book on Zeenuts... those are some truly astounding prices.

Maybe it's time for me to consider selling my hobby publication collection!

Jeff O

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Posted By: Seth B.

Nickinvegas, amusing auction posted tonight:


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2796210147&category=31719

But why are you parting with your lucky card?

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Posted By: Joe P.

Is the BIN still available?

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Posted By: Nickinvegas

The gambling gods told me, that I must part with my lucky card.

I have added the words "lucky" to a few auctions and it is amazing what it does to the price. I sold a $.05 ceramic monkey figure(my first ebay sale) for $85.00! I am superstious(sp?) and I guess there are many others out there who are too...

Nick

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Posted By: Julie

I've often wondered if the originals would be worth considerable--I have mine, but, naturally enough, they're plenty worn out! So it's just idle curiosity. Besides, I don't want to sell them anyway.

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Posted By: Kevin Cummings

Nick:

I was a bit surprised at the prices realized on the newsletters. I have 20 or so of the originals and paid another board member about $3 each for them a year or so ago. I figured $3.50 an issue would put me in the running. I would have liked to won the lot so my run was complete, but such is life.

I had never heard of the "Who's Who" book until I saw the listing. It would have been interesting to have it, but not at that price. Anyone know who the winning bidder is?

Kevin

P.S. I think you should have held on to your lucky T206 (or let me borrow it) until after those lots closed. There might have been a different winner!

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Posted By: Scott

I did not bid on that publication but the listing brought a smile to my face.

Back in the mid 70s, my father and I responded to an Irv Lerner (Whos Who author) advertisement in one of the local Philadelphia newspapers.

We had recently come into a nice lot of vintage cards but had no idea of their value. When Irv offered my father $2,000 (decent sum back then) for our collection I think it almost put my dad in shock!

Thankfully, my father refused the offer. Mr. Lerner was very gracious. He gave us information on the cards and invited us to one of the early Willow Grove card shows and we've been hooked collectors ever since.

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Posted By: Lyman Hardeman

Kevin: I must confess. I was the high bidder (someone on this board recently stated that that's not necessarily the same as being the winner!) of the Old Judge Newsletters and the Who's Who book. It was a chance to complete my OJ run in one swell foop. I too was unaware of the Who's Who book until Lew placed it on his auction.

We plan to use the material from both of these auctions as reference material for future expansion of the Old Cardboard website. In this way, our new acquisitions will also become, as the Old Cardboard subtitle suggests, "Your Information Resource for Old Baseball Cards." Ultimately, it is our intent that these important and very relevant references will be shared by all.

Scott: Thanks for sharing the story of your and your father's encounter with Irv Lerner.

Lyman

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Posted By: david

i am glad to hear that they will become available. i was hoping the winner would turn them into pdf's and place them online. i think it would be a great vintage resource

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Posted By: warshawlaw

I don't think there should be that much surprise over the prices on these publications. I have bought and sold old SCD and TTS in the past few years with a good deal of success and have seen those pubs about double in value in that time. The works sold yesterday are well respected and out of print. Nearly every Zeenuts collector I know wants that book.

Has anyone seen/does anyone remember The Complete Book Of Baseball Cards by Steve Clark (1976)? I got the book when I was 11 and it more or less fueled my zeal for old cards. It has a priceless chapter on rare cards which starts out imagining a world where collectors had price guides and used them to calculate the relative values of their trades, then says "So much for fantasy." The book has interviews with many hobby legends, lots of pics of cards and is a great snapshot of what it was like to collect ca. 1975.

And now for the "Doh" (to quote Homer Simpson): About a year ago I came across a hardbound copy of the ACC from 1960 in a used bookstore. Since I'd purchased the Nostalgia Press reprint, I elected to keep the five bucks. Doh!!

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Posted By: Jeff O

If Lerner's 1971 "Who's Who" is worth $220, how much is this one worth from 1958 put out by hobby pioneer and creater of Sport Fan, Bob Jaspersen? 29 double-sided pages... and I have the 1959 edition too!



If I could obtain similar prices to Lipset (mind you, he will always have the edge due to name recognition), it may be time to sell off the old hobby publication collection... I always used to think this stuff was WAY undervalued, but it looks like that may have changed now.

Jeff

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Posted By: Scott

This ones for you...



Like you, this was one of the first books I got that sparked my interest in the hobby.

Irv Lerner is mentioned, among others, in the book and special mention is made of his $1,500 Honus Wagner

Irv was nice enough to let us see the card when we met him. Wonder if he still owns it or if its long gone by now....

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Posted By: warshawlaw

I've got the 1980 printing of it.

The book helped me with a trade long ago. I read about the 1958 Bell Cimoli rarity in it and was able to trade for one for a song shortly afterwards as a throw-in on a deal for a 1968 Clemente. Sadly, I sold it some time thereafter and haven't seen another in I don't know how long.