What are the top 10 famous players to collect: 1887 Old Judge baseball cards

[cyseymour]

Originally Posted by Zone91

Just found a Amos Rusie I can see they are quite expensive!!!


http://www.ebay.ca/itm/1887-Old-Judg...item45e934d393

I would lay off the ebay Buy It Now's. The Keefe is a quality card, worth approx. $600, but a lot of the BIN's are vastly overpriced. You'd be better off participating in auctions where you know there is an underbidder.

[Zone91]

cyseymour

Noted!!! Thanks.

[Matthew H]

Originally Posted by cyseymour

I would lay off the ebay Buy It Now's. The Keefe is a quality card, worth approx. $600, but a lot of the BIN's are vastly overpriced. You'd be better off participating in auctions where you know there is an underbidder.

+1 on laying off the eBay BINs. Some of those have been sitting there for years.

I'll disagree on the $600 value on the Keefe though. The next one with a front that nice might be graded a 5. Even if you could have gotten it at auction for 650, you would have to wait for another nice front graded poor to be offered, which could take awhile. I'd rather over-pay 100 then sit and wait for a year or two.

[Zone91]

What about buying from this seller:

Dave's Vintage Baseball cards he seems to be everywhere on youtube when it comes to this series.

https://www.gfg.com/baseball/


How does one figure it has a 600$ value....do you base yourself on SMR PSA's online price guide???

[cyseymour]

Nope, I don't use SMR, and wouldn't recommend using it for OJ's. Look at past auction prices, that is the only real barometer. Good luck!

[bbcard1]

All things being equal...and they most certainly are not...I would rather have a Billy Sunday than any other card in the OJ set. it is not unattainable. I am of the opinion that he is as interesting of a baseball player as we have seen in the glorious game's history.

An OJ appears on his wikipedia page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Sunday

[cyseymour]

Originally Posted by Zone91

What about buying from this seller:

Dave's Vintage Baseball cards he seems to be everywhere on youtube when it comes to this series.

https://www.gfg.com/baseball/


How does one figure it has a 600$ value....do you base yourself on SMR PSA's online price guide???

SMR prices are completely irrelevant when it comes to OJ's. There are a lot of other factors, like image quality, etc, that come into play. That's why I'd say study auction prices and get a feel for what things are worth. I can't comment on one particular guy's website or what he's doing, that's his business. But OJ's are complex and it takes time to get a feel for it. Good luck!

[Bobsbats]

Here is my Rusie !!

Rusie OJ front.jpg

[Zone91]

Bobsbats

Very very cool!!!

[E93]

FYI Rusie is one of the tougher HOFs.
JimB

[cyseymour]

Originally Posted by Matthew H

+1 on laying off the eBay BINs. Some of those have been sitting there for years.

I'll disagree on the $600 value on the Keefe though. The next one with a front that nice might be graded a 5. Even if you could have gotten it at auction for 650, you would have to wait for another nice front graded poor to be offered, which could take awhile. I'd rather over-pay 100 then sit and wait for a year or two.

Yeah Matt, except that it just sold at auction for $500 last December. But even for $750, at least it is a really nice card, a quality piece. There's plenty of OJ's that sell in that range that aren't so good. So still a decent buy.

[Matthew H]

Originally Posted by cyseymour

Yeah Matt, except that it just sold at auction for $500 last December. But even for $750, at least it is a really nice card, a quality piece. There's plenty of OJ's that sell in that range that aren't so good. So still a decent buy.

Really, the exact same card? I missed that one, I haven't seen that example.

[Zone91]

Matthew H

Yes I saw it sold on Heritage auctions before I decided to buy it for 700$. I figured a famous player from that period and a top 1 or top 2 pitcher of the same period must be worth at least the price I paid for it.....in the end I am very happy with my purchase.

You can find it in the ended sport card section on Heritage auctions website.