Spike in Zeenut 1911 (Brockelman tonight)

[Leon]

Many of those are the nicest ones in the hobby. Add to that some are extremely scarce and you have a recipe for nice realized prices. There are quite a few board members (and others) who quietly collect these.

[sb1]

As Leon noted, this is the break up of one of the finest 1911 Zeenut sets ever assembled, many will fetch record prices, and accordingly will not be offered for sale for many, many years as they will be deeply embedded in the collections of the new owners, many of which have spent decades assembling their 1911 Zeenut sets. A rare opportunity for those collecting the first year of the Zeenut issue.

[GregMitch34]

I get that except--other "highest graded" from same issue that sold in recent years mainly fetched less than half most of these prices.

[sb1]

The others probably slipped under the radar for a few folks.

Tonight, everyone that is a a serious 1911 Zeenut collector is aware of them and involved. With the entire set(less Bohen) up for sale, there is somewhat of a feeding frenzy in place.

[nolemmings]

Fantastic selection Scott. I copied scans of the entire group; after all, those who can--collect, and those who cannot-- collect scans I actually have a few bids in but am mostly just grateful that I got to see them all in one place at one time. Good luck to the hunters.

[itjclarke]

I just won the one I wanted, crossed a biggie off my want list. Am psyched!

[rhettyeakley]

That was fun, even though I didn't get to add any that I needed. Some of the cards going for big money really surprised me (as they aren't tough players to find) but there were 6-7 really rare cards in there... half went for high prices and the others went for pretty reasonable prices (I would have been a buyer if I didn't already have them).

Hopefully Steve Murray was able to get his Fullerton!