Babe Ruth Cut Auto

[HRBAKER]

Originally Posted by RichardSimon

Guess all this advice from the board was not paid attention to.
This card with that huge smear is now on ebay with a $9500 BIN.

Richard,
They must be valuing the smear at around 5-6 thousand.
Very nice pull but probably worth something considerably south of the B-I-N.

[drc]

The detraction of the smudge is true. A positive quality, however, is that, unlike many of these cut auto cards, you can see the entire the entire signature.

[RichardSimon]

The "market" for these cards has always struck me as very, very strange.
If a Babe Ruth cut is worth $3000, why is it worth $9000, when it is placed on a manufactured card, with a scarcity that is delibrately created by the manufacturer. And the manufacturers have little or no regard for the quality of the autograph, I have seen signatures that appear on these cards with letters missing, tops and bottoms of letters cut off and other things wrong with the card such as ghost signed signatures and signatures of players paired up with the picture of another player. As an autograph dealer, I know my customers would not be buying autographs with letters missing, etc.

[J.McMurry]

Richard,

Maybe it just goes to show that P.T. Barnum was a genius.

[RichardSimon]

J Mc,,, you have a good point there.

[grandslamcardscria]

I listed the auto on my other Ebay account since I save a bit on fees. I listed the card at that particular Buy it Now price as obviously I wanted a feel on the what the market for this type of card is. Well, now that I have a feel I can for sure say that my price is probably a little too high.. Oh well.. Better high than low IMO..
Just a while back there was a Ruth Maris historical cuts card that went for $6k. Im not much into cards like this and would rather have a Cobb, Matty or Johnson,, hence the reason for selling.. Thanks for the honest input though.. Im at least glad to hear that you all think its a real sig...
Oh, I am in agreement that PT's IQ was off the charts..