Has everyone gone mad?

[sreader3]

I wanna give a hat tip to Morrie who spotted the PB "SER S" print error 11 years ago and was hazed on Net54 for raising the issue. I hope you squirreled away a few dozen!

[Mountaineer1999]

Originally Posted by sreader3

I wanna give a hat tip to Morrie who spotted the PB "SER S" print error 11 years ago and was hazed on Net54 for raising the issue. I hope you squirreled away a few dozen!

+1

[Mountaineer1999]

Cards that were selling for $20-50 for years are now all of a sudden be offered up for $5K. To answer the original post; yes the world has gone mad.

[arc2q]

I have a much sought after Piedmont Simon Nicholls missing the T and H in "The Cigarette of Quality."

All joking aside, this was the first T206 I bought as a teenager in 1986 for $2. I'm the one who put the tape on the back because I stuck it in my keepsake scrapbook. Kids...

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by Mountaineer1999

Cards that were selling for $20-50 for years are now all of a sudden be offered up for $5K. To answer the original post; yes the world has gone mad.

Like said in a earlier post all it take is a couple people hyping them up and pretty soon people think they got to have them.

I mainly collect error cards and have for 25+ years so I have seen this happen with error cards many many times. Sometimes the hype lasts a few years and sometimes it is very short lived.

As a avid 89 Fleer Bill Ripken collector I have seen the hype and crazy prices come and go several times on the same exact card. It truly amazes me but I have learned to buy them when the hype dies and sell when people just gotta have them.

To keep in the T206 card discussion. It was not that long ago that top/bottom name cards pulled a premium. Now not so much.

[xplainer]

I agree with the above post. While new here, I've collected cards for almost 40 years. And I've seen the same thing happen with modern cards.
Ripken is a fine example. 1989 Leiter is another.
Some fools will spend a lot of money, some will make a lot of money, but it will level back off to where it should be. Hold your guns - unless selling.

[atx840]

Pretty neat variant.

While checking for these (had one but long gone now ) I noticed a decent plate scratch. Pat R, you up to the challenge of tracking these

[Pat R]

Originally Posted by atx840

Pretty neat variant.

While checking for these (had one but long gone now ) I noticed a decent plate scratch. Pat R, you up to the challenge of tracking these

Good to see you back Chris, Hope all is well with you.


Jantz has scans of a handful of these. If I remember right they all were
pretty much straight vertical marks.

[unamuzd1]

Originally Posted by sreader3

I wanna give a hat tip to Morrie who spotted the PB "SER S" print error 11 years ago and was hazed on Net54 for raising the issue. I hope you squirreled away a few dozen!

Thanks! Sadly, I didn't. Still only the one of each that I mentioned at the time. (Well, no Bergen. Just the other two.) I'll see about getting decent scans of them in a bit.

Edited to add that I'm sure I wasn't remotely the first person to notice it, with so many smart people being so passionate about these for so many years!

[sreader3]

Morrie,

Glad to see you have your original 2 and are still checking in on Net54.

Best,

Scot

[unamuzd1]

Thanks, Scot. I'm an introvert, so lurk more or less everywhere I go.

These two came out of the only collection I ever bought, much of which someone had unkindly removed from an album. I'm just happy these backs made it through relatively intact! Now, to see if I've made these images way too big...

For those keeping track, this is also the ultra-rare Bradley "dog-hair on scanner" variation!

[wonkaticket]

Morrie, very cool how much for the dog hair and what kind of dog?

That's cool, now up to 3 Bradley's now accounted for along with a handful of Doolans and Bergens anybody find another new player yet?

[z28jd]

Well I have at least 66 Polar Bear cards to check tomorrow, including a Doolan and Bergen, so wish me luck!

[atx840]

Interesting that Doolan seems more common, my former example.