Thoughts on this Jim McGlothlin
 

My friend gave me his childhood collection, mainly consisting of Topps Baseball from 1967 to 1969. This card was among them. My friend told me that he got this personally from McGlothlin at a Gemco department store in the Orange County, CA area where the player was employed during the off-season. The card had/has wax stains on the front so the signature didn't come out very boldly, therefore McGlothlin turned it on the reverse side and but his signature on top of the biographical information. I'm not an autograph collector and I want to trade it for missing cards from the 67-69 sets that I "inherited." What would be a fair trade price?

Phil aka Tere1071

Complete sets: 1953 Bowman Color; 1970-75 Topps Baseball

Sets under construction
1967 Topps Baseball 489/533
1968 Topps Baseball 542/598
1968 Topps Baseball 621/694

Best guess $100-$150 at the high end, could be lower.

Unfortunately, what would have been a great card just has everything going against it. If you put this up for auction with a low starting bid, I'd venture it wouldn't sell for much at all. It's just so undesirable in its presentation.

It appears that he first tried signing with another pen (two different colored J's on front). There are scribbles/doodling on both the front and back.

It was my friend's who was more of a fan than a collector. He was about 11 or 12 when he got this autograph (1968 or 1969), and condition had no meaning to him, still doesn't actually. You have to accept what you're given, it was free along with all of his childhood collection. I am also fully aware that due to its imperfections, this wouldn't appeal to a great many collectors, but for someone who doesn't mind it would be a cheaper alternative than something nice.

In my case, I would want to trade it for missing 1968s to complete my set.

Phil aka Tere1971

Complete sets- 1953 Bowman Color and Topps Baseball 1970-1975.

Under construction and quite a bit of restoration-

1967 Topps Baseball 490/533
1968 Topps Baseball 542/598
1969 Topps Baseball 622/694
1969 Topps Stamp Albums- missing Tigers and Twins; individual stamps: Giants- Lanier; Pilots- Aker, Harper; Reds- Tolan

Working on the following inserts- 1967 Topps Baseball posters; 1968 Topps Baseball game cards; 1969 Topps Baseball Deckle; 1970 Topps Baseball Scratch offs; 1971 Topps Baseball Scratch offs and coins