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Posted By: Bottom of the Ninth

Anyone see the results? Caramel prices were incredibly high, consistent with sales anywhere but ebay. Don't follow tobacco issues as closely but those that I did recognize seemed to do quite well. The few 19th century items did not do as well as I had expected. Here is a link to their site. http://www.huntauctions.com/hunt.html

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Posted By: Craig

The yum-yum Welch 10k and the kbats Balt. card 3.4k (which was trimmed) did exceptionally well in the 19th century category.

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Posted By: Anonymous

I agree. Was only on the phone briefly at a few points, the staff seemed genuinely surprised at some of the prices.

I haven't checked, but was told that final prices will be posted on their website "soon".

I had all but given up on winning anything when i got a call back on the very last lot
(Scrapps Sam Thompson) which I won with a bid that was one past retail

Anybody want to confess to buying the d359's ?

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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

The T cards I followed..went ridiculously high, maybe double what they would have gotten on ebay. Needless to say, I got slaughtered.

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Posted By: quan

who here insisted on beating me out of these 2 lots? the bidding went back and forth on these 2 before i gave up on both...i just wanted the e98 Young Old Put.

edited to say i still think the e103 went at a reasonable price compared to what a recent one sold for...

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Posted By: scott brockelman

Quan,

i will gladly sell the young as soon as i get it, for $7,000. which i feel is a very fair price as it is quite probably 1 of a kind.

if not i will be getting it slabbed by SGC and holding out for even more money.

scott

ps: i hung in on the E103 as well til 5k but let it go, kinda wish i hadn't.

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Posted By: quan

then i'm glad i didn't go any further on it as you would probably still beat me and that'd just be more money for Hunts. I don't remember seeing an OP Young before either. The Matty ain't a bad throw-in also.

...also regretting i didn't bid higher on the e103, i was originally willing to go a bit more.

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Posted By: Wesley

Scott's new price for the Old Put Cy Young seems perfectly reasonable.

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Posted By: Richard

Looks like the prices on caramels have stabilized a bit and people have rotated back into tobacco.

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Posted By: Anonymous

I guess I was sleeping for this one. That was a decent e103 Matty. Who won it?

If anybody bought the lot with the Collins E102 (Lot 549) - i will buy it.

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Posted By: Colt McClelland

The Keeler card was actually an E97 (not an E93 as advertised), and probably worth close to the entire $1,900 closing price for the lot if it's really VG-VG/EX. Wish I had bought that lot. They really make it tough for bidders, so I am surprised that some of the other lots went so high. I certainly wouldn't feel comfortable consigning anything to them with the lack of true on-line bidding. I guess you can't argue with their results overall though.

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Posted By: Brian Daniels

I bid fairly strong on both of the aforementioned as well as lot 551-3 but have not checked to see how I did. I have a good feeling however~

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Posted By: Andrew Parks

B~

I will buy the Collins E102 if you won it and you want to sell it.

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Posted By: Brian Daniels

and why should I sell it?

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Posted By: tbob

Richard- I have to disagree with you about caramel card prices stabilizing. Look at the lots again, they were going for 2, 3 and sometimes even 4 times the high estimates. This doesn't even include the Cracker Jack caramel cards which went nuts.
Colt- You are absolutely right about 554. Doggone it, I wish I had seen that Keeler was in there, that lot would have never gone for $1900, beautiful card and the Plank wasn't too shabby either.

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Posted By: Tom Boblitt

and prices were SKY high........I won about 5-6 lots but no cards. For the bats and memorabilia, they had about 3-5 lines going for phone bidders. When they got to the cards, they added probably 3-5 more lines. Interestingly there was a guy in the audience who bought probably 15 of the T206 lots for what I'd consider 150-200% of book. Conservatively, probably $30-$40K. The Southern Leaguers went for $200 each ungraded. They were ungraded cards, but mostly nice EX to EXMT cards. He'd have to get ALL 6's and some 7's to be able to break even on most of the lots. He said his ebay is JAYSACES or something like that......

Someone else in the audience bought about 5-6 lots of Cracker Jacks in the $30K range. Memorabilia, bats, etc went very strong as well although not quite as strong as caramel and T cards. I just can't see T206's selling for the prices they did. I will be selling my set soon if the prices continue to escalate.

Great atmosphere for the auction........if you haven't been to the Louisville Slugger museum, drop by sometime. Dan McKee was in attendance and Bryan Dec and a few others. Nice cocktail party/preview on Friday night before I went to see my Louisville cardinals stop on Rutgers.......

Think they may make this a yearly thing. The contributions of Louisville Slugger to the auction were no where near as heavy as the first one. Guess the archives maybe aren't as heavy as they'd thought. Interestingly, they had a LOT of photos that sold for very strong prices. Years back, Louisville Slugger donated literally 10's of 1000's of photos to the University of Louisville library, who now has supposedly the second largest grouping of baseball photos outside of the Hall of Fame.

On another note, Doug Allen from Mastronet was in attendance and bought quite a few lots that I bet will wind up in the their auctions down the road. Dave Bushing was also in attendance altough not buying as many lots of bats as he was the first time around.

My favorite item to view was the 1911 Addie Joss day photograph. Probably 8x10 or slightly larger from Van Oyen photography in Cleveland. Sold for approximately 62500 before the 10% kicker. Beautiful photo.

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Posted By: Andrew Parks

"sell it?
and why should I sell it?"

So I can upgrade my set, silly!

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Posted By: Elliot

Here's a write-up from the local Louisville newspaper featuring our very own Tom Boblitt.

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051113/NEWS01/511130640/1008

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Posted By: Anonymous

pretty nice facility....maybe sitting there for 7.5 hours wasn't that brutal.

i had envisioned more bidders on the floor.

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Posted By: Tom Boblitt

Elliott...........
I should have NEVER spoke to that reporter.....
My mom was accosted at church....although I did get a call from some elderly woman at the house saying she has Louisville Colonels stuff I can have.....I bought some 1930's autographed balls, photos and a 1954 Louisville Colonels Junior World Champions ring. Then opened my big mouth.......

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Posted By: Anonymous

E102 Collins
November 13 2005, 9:06 AM

"sell it?
and why should I sell it?"

So I can upgrade my set, silly!


Sorry Jonah, you should have thought ahead when you had 3 Crawford's
you wanted 8x for~ I'm so silly I think ahead

I'll break down the group when I get it and you can have it for 8x

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Posted By: Andrew Parks

"Cards are a battlefield!"

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Posted By: identify7

Gotta watch out for those elderly women with the "has Louisville Colonels stuff I can have....." ploy. It is often just a lure to get you in.

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Posted By: davidcycleback

That's great, Tom. The article begins with and focuses on Tom, and mentioned in passing near the bottom is some nobody named Joe Torre.

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Posted By: Brian C. Daniels

Andrew Parks
(Login AParks13)
Re: Hunt Auction
November 14 2005, 7:00 AM

"Cards are a battlefield!"

thus have far less value to the wise servant!

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Posted By: Tom Boblitt

want to be in it and......think it should be Frank Torre, not Joe.....he was in attendance.