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Posted By: warshawlaw

Quite some time ago (March 26, 1999, lot 981, to be precise) I picked up a huge lot of boxing cards from them. The cards were listed in one of their infamous grab-bag lots as random assortments of several sets, including T218, T220 and 1948 Leaf cards. The counts on the cards sounded like complete sets or near sets, but the lot was just listed as groupings of cards with virtually no description.

I took the lot for around $5 a card.

It had a complete set of 1938 Churchman's, a complete set of the T218 boxers, 49 of the 50 T220 boxers including a whole bunch of high grade short printed silver border cards that had not even been listed in the catalogue, and what was listed as 42 of the 49 1948 Leaf cards. Best of all, the morons had misclassified a 1932 U.S. Caramel card of Jack Sharkey as a 1948 Leaf card (the caramel card is a heck of a lot rarer). It brought nearly 10% of the bid back to me when I sold it.

So much for expertise in that clown college.