Saying goodbye to my Orr today

[Tomi]

Off to Goldin Auctions and will be in their February auction. Tough call to make but needs to be done. Moving things around and I'm very satisfied with the decision. I have more Orr stuff that I won't get rid of but the way the market is now I think the time is right. Good luck if anyone here is bidding on it. Thanks for looking.

[Peter_Spaeth]

I always wondered why the English version says Defence.

Hell of a card to part with.

[jb67]

Good luck with the sale. Someone is going land a great card.

[Stampsfan]

Beautiful card. Great centering, fairly recently graded... so many good qualities.

I just picked up a 6 from REA's last auction and it arrived Monday. I'll enjoy mine for awhile.

GLWS, I'll certainly be following it.

[jb217676]

That's a real nice sports car you have for sale!

[clarke442]

WOW!

I haven't seen that card for awhile

Hopefully I can win the Lottery before February

Good Luck

[irv]

Every once in a while, one sees a card one can only dream of, and this is one of those cards for me.

Good luck with your sale, Tomi.

[Throttlesteer]

The nerve of you to bring that lowly trash in here. Time to up your game.

J/k. Helluva card! Good luck.

[goldenage]

Beautiful card Tomi. I'm sure you'll be thrilled with the profit. My guess is the buyer will enjoy a nice profit in another 10 years or so also. Good luck.

[shagrotn77]

That is one beautiful card! I can only imagine what astronomical price it will bring. Any guesses?

[pawpawdiv9]

Heritage has a 7 & 8 in their current auction....be a good test to see its worth.
The 8 is already at 42K, and it just started...27 days left.
Says estimate 75K +
I am glad to pick one up recently sgc1.5

[Seven]

Originally Posted by pawpawdiv9

Heritage has a 7 & 8 in their current auction....be a good test to see its worth.
The 8 is already at 42K, and it just started...27 days left.
Says estimate 75K +
I am glad to pick one up recently sgc1.5

It's going to hit 6 figures, I'd wager.

[forceplay sport]

WOW ! what a beauty !!!

[ronniehatesjazz]

I'm not a hockey fan and probably only have a hand full of hockey cards but what a beauty!

[Tomi]

Thanks for all the kind words guys. I still can't understand how it didn't grade higher. Every collector and dealer I showed it to agree. Just can't justify spending thousands to review it for a higher grade and getting shut out. You can make more if it bumps higher but if it doesn't then it's no different than flushing the money down the toilet. I think it will do better then the one in Heritage right now which has a soft corner. The term buy the card and not the holder should apply to this auction. Fingers crossed.

[goldenage]

There are 8's in 10 holders and vice versa. Years ago I cracked a PSA 8 and resubmitted it and it came back a PSA 10. The money that is exchanged in the difference between a 9 and 10 can be huge, but the difference in the card can be nothing. Same with 8's and 10's sometimes.

[rjackson44]

I own a bobby orr bazooka panel but man o man

[Tomi]

Originally Posted by rjackson44

I own a bobby orr bazooka panel but man o man

You can check out my Orr panel on the PSA registry. I have scans of all the panels up.

[forceplay sport]

I saw the Goldin Auction ended on the Orr USA Test rookie, hoping it ended where you wanted.

[Tomi]

Originally Posted by forceplay sport

I saw the Goldin Auction ended on the Orr USA Test rookie, hoping it ended where you wanted.

Can't complain. It's a record for the grade.

[FrozenInferno]

Beautiful card. I'd love to have a Topps Test orr.

[jb217676]

Wow, $87,330.00! That's a great haul! Makes me wonder what my lower graded PSA 6 would bring. Comparing mine to yours our scans don't look very different LOL! Main difference would be mine has worse top to bottom centering.
Jeff

[jb67]

Congrats on the sale. Hopefully you are happy with the final price.

[samosa4u]

Congrats

[irv]

Originally Posted by Tomi

Can't complain. It's a record for the grade.

Congrats, Tomi.

[tabasco]

Congrats. I was following your card and also the 2 sequentially numbered Heritage Orr Test card. Glad to see yours made history.

[Tomi]

I have a feeling a regular Topps Orr in a PSA 8 should hit six figures or close to it. The last one sold for $85K at Goldin. What's crazy to me is that a PSA 8 Bill Russell in the same auction went for over $300K but the Orr hasn't even broken $100K in the same grade. Definitely keeping my other Orr stuff long term.

[tabasco]

I think a sudden surge in supply in the market didn't help.
1x PSA 7 Test and 1x PSA 8 Test sold the week before in Heritage.
And then your 1x PSA 8 Test came to auction the next week.

Goldin's website did crash just before 10pm which may/may not have affected your final sell price. They did extend the auctions 1 hr and 15min to compensate.

Did Goldin charge 5% commission on the sale or were you able to get a better rate since its a hockey featured item?

[Tomi]

Originally Posted by tabasco

I think a sudden surge in supply in the market didn't help.
1x PSA 7 Test and 1x PSA 8 Test sold the week before in Heritage.
And then your 1x PSA 8 Test came to auction the next week.

Goldin's website did crash just before 10pm which may/may not have affected your final sell price. They did extend the auctions 1 hr and 15min to compensate.

Did Goldin charge 5% commission on the sale or were you able to get a better rate since its a hockey featured item?

Goldin didn't charge me any seller premium. I don't think the crash did anything as far as final value because there were bids that were placed after it came back online after the crash.

[rjackson44]

Vintage hockey very undervalued im buying it up. Congratulations