No sign of cooling off in caramel card market

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Posted By: Bob

Wow, still 2 days to go!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=001&sspagename=STRK%3AMEBI%3AIT&viewitem=&item=110147360850&rd=1&rd=1>

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Posted By: Mark T

Yes, it also helps the color is red. What do you think this adds to the price?

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Posted By: Brett

I was lucky enough to get 2 e98 Mathewson's (blue and orange)in poor shape fairly cheap, but I didn't know red backgrounds went for so much ! I'm still looking for a very low grade green background if anyone is willing to part with theirs :D

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Posted By: Tom Boblitt

Bidder 7 bids on a LOT of stuff but not as much as Bidder 1 and Bidder 2........

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Posted By: doug

http://cgi.ebay.com/1922-E121-American-Caramel-George-Sisler-Ser-120-PSA-3_W0QQitemZ170129442895QQihZ007QQcategoryZ31718QQr dZ1QQcmdZViewItem

if you want HOFs from any of the E cards, you have to pay up for them, and if you want nice condition commons you have to pay up also.

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Posted By: Mark L

While I don't like to comment on auctions that are on-going, I will say that it's significant that some fresh blood is bidding on the caramels from the 20's.

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Posted By: Bob

Red has always been presumed to be the toughest color of the 4 e98 colors and I'll have to admit I haven't seen a red Matty before (mine are orange and blue), so that may be driving the price up, but on the other hand it doesn't seem to be doing much for the red Cobb which was about 1/3 the bid of the Matty, both SGC 10s with nice eye appeal.

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Posted By: Jimmy

on my end in the east coast caramel has been a great seller

Jimmy

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Posted By: Brett

Most of the E98s I see on ebay are red and orange. I don't see alot of the blue and greens...

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Posted By: quan

they're all the same scarcity-wise...but i see green the least. would love a green.

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Posted By: Brett

My only green in a Cy Young PSA 1. Its in pretty good shape for a PSA 1. Thinking about selling it too

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Posted By: robert a

Nothing like a thread about how your card is selling for too much to hault the bidding.

No, but seriously I've been talking with more than a couple E98 collectors who are collecting the set and still need that matty to complete it.

It's a wonderful pose and was the last card I needed to complete my set.

Rob

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Posted By: Bob

Rob, ouch, I didn't realize you were the seller. Please understand I never hinted the card was selling for too much, just relating that the caramel card market was still hot. My experience with the E98s is that Matty being Matty and Walsh are becoming almost impossible to find. I think this is due to their being HOFers and also because both cards are fairly tough in the set. The Matty in this condition with nice eye appeal but graded a 10 has doubled in one year.
I still think the Hippo Vaughn and Jack Coombs are the two toughest in the set though...

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Posted By: robert a

Hi Bob,

Walsh sure is tough. I've owned a few walsh E98s, but never above poor condition. Not sure why, but he, like Tenny has tough cards from more than one issue.

I agree on Vaughn and Coombs and might throw Tenny in there with them.

What a fun set.

Rob