T3 Turkey Red Gallery

[jayshum]

Originally Posted by Kawika

My "collector grade" Turkey Red player set (no variations, no special backs, just one of each card) plus two Mike Wheat fantasy T3 cards of Honus Wagner and Joe Jackson. (Years ago I begged him to do a T3 Joe Wood as well but he politely declined).

https://imageevent.com/kawika_o_ka_p...l/t3turkeyreds pw = N54

David, I would say your T3 set is well above collector grade. There are some really nice looking cards in your set. I wish you had posted them in the thread as it was going on.

[chadeast]

Originally Posted by jayshum

David, I would say your T3 set is well above collector grade. There are some really nice looking cards in your set. I wish you had posted them in the thread as it was going on.

Agreed. I don't like the term "collector grade" for its ambiguity, but as it seems to refer most often to beater cards, I must agree that your T3 collection is MUCH nicer than that. Thanks for sharing, those are great looking Turkeys! I'd love to own that Mathewson.

[Kawika]

Didn't wish to irritate anybody with my choice of terminology. A decade or so back when I was engaged in scorched earth collecting practices there seemed to be a ton more stuff out there for grabs. T3s routinely showed up on eBay and the pricing was such that 3s and 4s were affordable and not anywhere as stratospheric as they are now. I shied away from the higher graded cards then because they were more expensive and I fancied myself an armpit collector whose main criteria was eye appeal. I loved pinholes in T3s because they kept the price down. There may be a better way to phrase it but it's what I called "collector grade" back in the day. SGC wasn't grading T3s then, just PSA and GAI. I'd have liked to had the whole set slabbed by SGC when they started grading them but it was one of those ideas that never went anywhere. The Matty was graded by GAI - I forget the grade, maybe a four for what it's worth - but I cracked it out of its über-fugly slab. It looked like it was graded by Radio Shack. Really awful.

[chadeast]

Originally Posted by Kawika

Didn't wish to irritate anybody with my choice of terminology. A decade or so back when I was engaged in scorched earth collecting practices there seemed to be a ton more stuff out there for grabs. T3s routinely showed up on eBay and the pricing was such that 3s and 4s were affordable and not anywhere as stratospheric as they are now. I shied away from the higher graded cards then because they were more expensive and I fancied myself an armpit collector whose main criteria was eye appeal. I loved pinholes in T3s because they kept the price down. There may be a better way to phrase it but it's what I called "collector grade" back in the day. SGC wasn't grading T3s then, just PSA and GAI. I'd have liked to had the whole set slabbed by SGC when they started grading them but it was one of those ideas that never went anywhere. The Matty was graded by GAI - I forget the grade, maybe a four for what it's worth - but I cracked it out of its über-fugly slab. It looked like it was graded by Radio Shack. Really awful.

No irritation here, I just wanted to let you know that IMO you have a really nice set! I love the Matty ungraded. In fact, I've cracked out 17 T3s from SGC slabs so far, as well as 4 PSAs. The SGC slabs are just too cumbersome for me, and frankly I've found that I just like the cards better unslabbed. It's ok to let them breathe Thanks again for sharing.

[jayshum]

The final bid on the T3 set in Lelands was $42,757 (so over $50K with the BP) which apparently did not meet the reserve so the set didn't sell. I can't imagine what the reserve was considering the overall condition of the set, but as previously mentioned, with the estimate listed at $150-200K, I think someone was being very overly optimistic.

https://auction.lelands.com/bids/bidplace?itemid=107784

[chadeast]

Originally Posted by jayshum

The final bid on the T3 set in Lelands was $42,757 (so over $50K with the BP) which apparently did not meet the reserve so the set didn't sell. I can't imagine what the reserve was considering the overall condition of the set, but as previously mentioned, with the estimate listed at $150-200K, I think someone was being very overly optimistic.

https://auction.lelands.com/bids/bidplace?itemid=107784

Yup, zero surprise there. Also notice that 8 other lots didn't hit their reserve. That Tom Brady signed game-worn jersey was at $497k w/ the BP and didn't hit the reserve! It's from a regular season game in 2010. Half a million dollars isn't enough?!?!

[Lucas00]

Originally Posted by chadeast

Yup, zero surprise there. Also notice that 8 other lots didn't hit their reserve. That Tom Brady signed game-worn jersey was at $497k w/ the BP and didn't hit the reserve! It's from a regular season game in 2010. Half a million dollars isn't enough?!?!

I really can't believe the UFC fight seats didn't sell! I mean the possibility of each match ending in 1-5 minutes and my $50,000+ being used to sit down in a metal folding chair for half an hour sounds like an enthralling time. Oh and the part where I don't know what event it's for, "date and event to be determined". Just gives me such a rush!