Heritage auction - claimed Mathewson Jersey

[ruth-gehrig]

Originally Posted by BrockJacob

This jersey is pictured on p.95 in Smithsonian Baseball and is credited to the Nick Depace collection. No mention of it being a Mathewson jersey is made and is only used to show the ghost imaging of the letters.

Very very interesting

[MVSNYC]

Jersey jumped to $300K.

[bmarlowe1]

I'm seeing that they very recently set a reserve amount at 250k - I don't see a 300k bid. Can you provide a link?

[MVSNYC]

Ah, I might be misreading their website, it's confusing as it's listed as $298K (w/ buyer's premium) under the "current bid" column on my watchlist. Their site has always had rather confusing interface.

[Lordstan]

Hmm

[bmarlowe1]

So the owner of the jersey in 2005 (pub. date of Smithsonian Baseball), Dr. Nick Depace knew apparently nothing about this being "Matty's jersey." That is odd.

I am guessing that Heritage just upped the reserve to 250k expecting that no one will bid, then they can just withdraw the jersey without admitting this is screwed up. Just a guess.

[MGHPro]

Didn't the jersey sell through rea or mastro years ago - I believe it was sold as a matty jersey back then and sold for under 20k if i remember correctly .
Matt