Dr. Steen autograph pick ups!
 

wow! That was exciting! The prices on the m101-2's were pretty healthy overall. I had no idea what they were going to go for. Someone got a bargain on the Mordecai Brown. I am super ecstatic to add this. I think someone snoozed when I picked this up as the other Cub I went for (Orval Overall) went for twice as much.
Love watching that Hal Chase shoot up!
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I was an underbidder on the Hal Chase :( Couldn't justify to myself going over $3K for a Chase autograph when I already have one in my collection. :(

yeah it went for about what I thought. it was super nice as was all of them. Hoping everyone shares their winnings! Im super happy to get Frank Schulte, one of my favorite players!

Congrats Sean. That was a fun auction, really nice stuff.

I picked up a few...

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And....wait....I think there was one more.


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Tom C

Nice stuff Tom! I was the underbidder on that Archer. Love that autograph

Great image of the Peach and Wagner
Stellar pickup Tom

Congrats

nice wins guys! Tom, that Wagner/Cobb is easily one of my favorite SN Supps and for it to be signed by Honus, damn! congrats!

Thanks guys. It is easily my favorite of the Sporting News supplements. The signature just floors me. Not sure why it went for less than the Cy Young and half of the Cobb. The personalization maybe? To me, this collection will have become a rather famous one, so to me the personalization does not detratct at all from the piece.

For those who consider the supplements to be "cards", I suppose this may be the earliest signed Wagner " card" in existence.

With the Archer, I was waffling on that last bid. The amazing look of the signature made me hit the button one last time.

Tom C

I was really wanting the orval overall but I'm guessing whoever snoozed on the schulte went all out on it.

What did the Cobb itself go for?

That one intrigued me but I couldn't participate after Heritage.

Cobb went for $7,750 + 19% BP.

Nice pickups Tom!

M101-2s
 

I was really into this auction, but am a little disappointed as to how it all played out. The live auction format, with such a huge quantity of items I was interested in, was very hard to manage on a fixed budget. I would have loved to pick up one of the big guys that went for over $2,000 -- but not at the expense of just sitting on my hands while watching so many cool ones end so cheaply. As a general rule, I'll take all the signed M101-2s for $200 or less you can find! They're so sweet! What an amazing collection.

I managed to pull down 9 of them, and am super excited to own these. If anyone has buyer's remorse, please send them my way. I still have some of my budget left over for these!

Hey Mike, what did you get from Heritage? I was gonna go for a few things in there and REA but then I saw these signed beauties and had to shift my focus to these. Its funny that the M101-2 Cobb went for almost double what I bought my signed 1907 Dietsche for which makes me feel a little better for losing out on it.

Congrats on such sweet pickups! I really wanted to go after the Barry + Thomas,but I had a laser beem focus on what I considered the top 4 (in Order): Grover, Cobb, Wagner, Speaker and as you said I would have loved to picked up quite a few more because these are such nice pieces but to be able to have won 2 of my top 4, I can't complain.

Steen was a friggin jerk...I would have denied him if..what a moron, addressing people like that.

Steen was a JERK!

Nice items guys, Unfortunately was an underbidder on the Chase.

I would have loved to nab that Chase but once it went past $1500 I had to let that dream go

I attended this auction. It was my first time at such an event. I was surprised that there were only 10 bidders at the venue.

Did you win anything?

Tom C

I'm not an auto collector I went for the one unsigned Dean Brothers original photo. I won it and paid more than I had hoped to.

Does anybody have any information on who Doc Steen was, or where he lived, or anything? I'm just curious since I agree that this collection is so amazing, and now I happen to own a handful of them. Would like more info!

:D

I can't figure out how to scan these with the size limits but I won the Babe Adams, George Gibson and Bobby Byrne. My focus is around the 1909 Pirates. Someone fought me on the Tommy Leach and I had to let it go which stunk but it went way higher than I thought it would.

Amen to that. I was thinking $300 or so would take it home.

For Paul and anyone else interested in some history on Dr. Steen. Google is a many splendored thing...

https://books.google.com/books?id=SB...0steen&f=false

Dr. Steen was a dentist in Scottsbluff Nebraska. Please note this Hunt auction item circa 2008 (would be quite the companion piece to the Frank Baker M101-2 from this auction)...

http://www.huntauctions.com/live/ima...=247&lot_qual=

Tom C

Nice work tom!

Cool early Bio on him. I wonder when he died?

He was born in Wahoo Nebraska three years after Sam Crawford. I wonder if they knew one another.

Tom C

Wow! Thank you for all of the great info!

Great stuff. These are the first autographs that I have seen of Wildfire Schulte and Jeff Tesreau.

yeah the only example I had seen of schulte was his draft card

WHOA!!! How did I miss this??? Where were these auctioned off?

I have been chasing the ghost of Clarence Steen for many years now.

http://t.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=67267

I wondered where these supplements might be...I have a bunch of the letters that Steen sent off to players and received back either with autos on them or notes from the players giving the okay to send off the supplement.

wow Dan! very cool! and now we have even MORE info on the doctor. Pretty awesome that he played baseball too!

Hey Tom

Did you noticed if there were any other of this letter in that Hunt Auction?

I have about 30 of these letters.

http://net54baseball.com/showthread....ighlight=steen

Some of my letters...I have all of them in my safe deposit box so can't scan any of the others...I just found these old photos in a N54 search.

They did...I have a two or three page letter that Crawford wrote to Steen.

wow! Please please try to if you can sometime. It would be great to see if you have the Frank Schulte :)

Pretty sure I don't have Schulte, but I'll check them sometime this week.

By his writing, apparently he wasn't such a jerk after all.

Thanks Dan, I sure do appreciate it:)

I'm guessing it wasn't unusual to call someone by their last name back in those days without using "Mr". Sam Crawford signed his photo "To my old friend Steen."

I would absolutely agree with Dan on this. I was thinking the same thing myself. After reading Dan's Dr. Steen's letter I was impressed by it being businesslike, but well worded and thoughtful FWIW...

Scott did you get the Vandy M114 below?

I got skunked on the Vander Meer...I know that much.

Tom C

Mike,
Nope, I completely missed it. Ouch!
:rolleyes:

What did it sell for?

It sold for $50. I was under bidder at $40.

Tom C

Someone got a neat deal on Vandy!

:confused:

Is this an attempt at satire that whoooshed over my head, or are you seriously judging a man by the way he addressed people in letters?

I retrieved the letters from my bank today and I have 41 of them...some are just cuts or index cards, some are the letters Steen sent with notes from the player at the bottom, some are full letters from the player, and a few are from the wife of the player.

Stan Hack (signed by wife)
Johnny Vander Meer (signed)
Mel Harder (signed)
Charles Buddy Myer (signed)
Frank McCormick (signed)
Harlond Clift (signed)
Harry Danning (signed)
Ival Goodman (signed)
Glenn Wright (signed)
Buddy Hassett (signed)
Cookie Lavagetto (signed)
Luke Hamlin (signed)
George Case (signed)
Jeff Heath (signed)
Rudy York (signed)
Joe Moore (signed)
Dick Bartell (signed)
Jeff Tesreau (Letter from Dartmouth AD)
George Earnshaw (Unsigned with a note saying Mr Earnshaw would be glad to sign)
Dickie Kerr (Typed message from Kerr - unsigned)
Jimmie Foxx (signed by Red Sox secretary)
Sam Crawford (2 page letter, signed "Sam")
George Sisler (signed)
Bill Terry (signed)
Ray Schalk (signed)
Bill Dickey (signed)
Red Ruffing (signed)
Charley Gehringer (signed)
Buddy Lewis (signed "Buddy")
Bucky Walters (signed)
Bill Carrigan (signed)
Joe Gordon (signed)
Travis Jackson (signed)
Lloyd Waner (signed)
George Kelly (signed twice)
Frank Frisch (signed)
Napoleon Lajoie (unsigned, but did write a note)
Dizzy Dean (signed "J.H. Dean")
Hienie Zimmerman (signed by wife)
Bobby Byrne (two letters - one signed "Bobby Byrne" and the other signed "Robt M. Byrne")
Hank Greenberg (signed)

and the last one was sent to a man named Roscoe Ford, but was meant for Russ Ford. Roscoe got a kick out of being asked for his autograph.

edited to add: I did at one time own the Babe Ruth letter, but sold it to ease some of my expenses on the entire collection.

Picked this one up.

Neat Mordecai Jason, you coming to Beckett in a few weeks?

Mike

Has anyone received an invoice yet? I have emailed the auction house twice requesting one and have received no response.

Jason

They called me the Monday after the auction and I gave them a credit card over the phone and got my items 2 days later.

I like how Brown signed his... Mordecai Brown, a Cub. Nice!

That was his usual way of signing, Chuck.

I totally forgot I had this Steen letter to Zach Wheat. Wheat then wrote back to Sheen on the back of the same letter. With the envelope. Wish I would have ended up with the Wheat picture now.

Very cool! Would love to find one for my Frank Schulte

I saw that someone turned a bunch of those Steen photos in the last Hunt auction (ALL Star Game Auction). Although Hunt called him "Charles" Steen?? I never looked at completed prices to see if they made a profit. I still have about 40 of the Steen letters, would really like to get the Sam Crawford signed photo.

edited to add: Just went and looked at completed prices in the Hunt auction...I don't think the flipper made any money, and it looks like quite a few of the photos did not sell.

awesome Dan!
Saw a couple signed m101-2's at the National as well