Incredible Baseball Tintype Auction Yesterday

Hankphenom · #1 06-29-2020, 07:06 PM

Love the San Francisco Earthquake photo sales box. $240 seems like a steal for that. If I'd have known about the auction, that might be going on my wall!

bobfreedman · #2 06-29-2020, 08:42 PM

Here is an image of the inkwell

Hankphenom · #3 06-29-2020, 10:11 PM

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Originally Posted by bobfreedman

Here is an image of the inkwell

Wonderful piece, Bob.

GaryPassamonte · #4 06-30-2020, 05:03 AM

Bob- I have a bell using same batter figure on top of the bell. I think the maker is James W Tufts.

1880nonsports · #5 07-01-2020, 09:43 AM

easy to miss a couple along the long and winding road to a collection. I would have liked to add a couple of special examples to go along with Mark's book. There were quite a few images I would have chased. Likely I'll go back and register so I can see the prices realized for the hierarchical perspective.
Not likely I'll see such an accumulation again at auction

I'm too old.....

slidekellyslide · #6 07-01-2020, 11:24 AM

Seems an odd place to have this auction. How do you guys who saw it think it went? I imagine REA, Heritage or any other house that specializes in baseball would have done better.

aquarius31 · #7 07-01-2020, 01:53 PM

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Originally Posted by slidekellyslide

Seems an odd place to have this auction. How do you guys who saw it think it went? I imagine REA, Heritage or any other house that specializes in baseball would have done better.

I was wondering the same thing. There were several of the tintypes that sold <$200 which is obviously low but then again, it's likely that they would have been sold as a lot of 3 or more in REA or Heritage. I do think that perhaps a subset of the tintypes (particularly the ones that appear to be 1860's) may have gone for more in a different AH. It was neat though to see the variety of tintypes and memorabilia that were available...you'd be hard pressed to not find at least 1 item that peaked your interest. I was watching over 20 items (some non-baseball), put bids on 2 items and won 1.

Huysmans · #8 07-01-2020, 01:55 PM

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Originally Posted by slidekellyslide

Seems an odd place to have this auction. How do you guys who saw it think it went? I imagine REA, Heritage or any other house that specializes in baseball would have done better.

Dan, I think prices were pretty strong across the board for the tintypes, so I'm not sure if a different venue would have increased the final hammer prices. They might have been even stronger with one of the big guys though like REA. As mentioned, an accumulation like this is rarely if ever seen.

Henry, you don't have to register to see the prices realized, just click on any item you want to see, the final price is listed.

Jobu · #9 07-01-2020, 01:58 PM

They had the Jack Ryan photo (which is pretty awesome) id'd as Dan Brouthers until I shared some research to demonstrate to them it is Ryan. To their credit, they changed the listing.

I only ended up with one photo - I thought these guys were too fun to pass up.

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