Jeannette Tolstoi

RCMcKenzie · #1 08-29-2021, 01:46 PM

Maybe I didn't scroll back far enough on the newly listed setting, or maybe I just scrolled past it. It was almost certainly listed because of the price of the first sale.

I looked to see if I could tell anything from the bid history of the 2 sales, and it seems that the under-bidder of the first auction won the second auction. I'm sure I will find one eventually.

I bought this Steinert in 2018 on eBay. I don't remember what I paid, but I think it was around $20. A few days later, another Steinert turned up in a group of 3 Track Tolstoi, and I won that group for around $60. A week later another Steinert turned up, but I did not bid. Then, another turned up and I wish I had bid on the third, to have four in 2 weeks. I still have this one, and an upgrade.

G1911 · #2 08-29-2021, 04:15 PM

I�ve owned 2 Steinerts as well. I think T218-2 was probably produced on 2 sheets (possibly a separate run of Johnson�s, I�m pretty confident Johnson Green with him facing the opposite way was it�s own sheet in the late series 1 production), and one of them is notably more common in Tolstoi (these same cards do not appear to be super printed in other backs). I�m pretty sure the Tolstoi scarcity disparity is a big clue to the sheet layouts but the lack of a single miscut (at least I�ve never seen a T218-2 that one can tell what the adjacent card is) is a pain for figuring much out.

I�ve got rid of all the dupes I�ve come into over the last few years, and sitting at 41 uniques. Even the more common half is darn tough. There�s a group of them that just seem to change hands every couple years and come up for sale over and over. I don�t think I've seen more than ten unique examples of any card, though there�s surely much more than that. I often wonder if we see 5% of the extant examples crop up on the forums and in sales venues, or if it�s 50%. Relative scarcity is a lot easier than true scarcity. The T218 Tolstoi�s have an entry in the ATC journal but must have had a very brief print run. Tolstoi is not that tough of a back in all the other sets it produced (T79, T206, T220, probably forgetting some), and fairly common for some (T80).

Exhibitman · #3 08-29-2021, 10:31 PM

Wasn't me; just watched as it soared.

G1911 · #4 08-29-2021, 10:47 PM

While we're asking who won what, who ran me up $250 on the Red Cross Papke tonight? I forgive you

Tao_Moko · #5 08-30-2021, 11:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by G1911

While we're asking who won what, who ran me up $250 on the Red Cross Papke tonight? I forgive you

Sorry. I set a max bid at $303.

G1911 · #6 08-30-2021, 04:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tao_Moko

Sorry. I set a max bid at $303.

My surprise was that the third bidder was at only $55. I was hoping it would go closer to 200 than 400, but pricing this stuff is always tough. I�m up to 2 Red Crosses now. 48 to go�

Also just noticed the Red Crosses are a physically smaller card than the other 3 backs.

End hijack, back to the Tolstoi�s gentlemen

Exhibitman · #7 09-01-2021, 02:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by G1911

the Red Crosses are a physically smaller card than the other 3 backs.

other 3 T219 backs? Miners Extra, Honest Long Cut and ____?

I've not noticed the size disparity; gonna have to check that out.

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