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04-18-2024, 09:42 PM
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Phil, if it’s any comfort, some guy at some point sold each of those cards for lunch money. At least you got a used car out of the deal.
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04-18-2024, 10:50 PM
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Golly...
T200 premium of Cleveland... a big/huge team portrait. A very nice clear image of Ed Delahanty on an Old Judge. George van Haltran Old Judge cabinet card. T210 Casey Stengel. Tie... E90-1's the tough Mitchell and the Joe Jackson. The one that I got back, a nice T206 Cobb bat off shoulder with an American Beauty back.
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04-18-2024, 11:34 PM
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You guys are bringing back more memories, including a second “top 5” tier that I once owned:
E90-1 Joe Jax N172 Delahanty 52T Mathews W590 Gehrig Propagandas Musial Sold those for $12K total, not quite as big of a shortfall at today’s prices as my top 5 but plenty of meat left on the bone, that’s for sure……. Last edited by bcbgcbrcb; 04-18-2024 at 11:35 PM.
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04-19-2024, 04:23 AM
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Pre grading, my pre-teen self went to a swap meet with a box full of 80's cards, mostly RCs. Didn't even plan to sell or trade them, and somehow left with a box full of soon-to-be-rusty pocket knives. Can still remember the old guy drooling while taking advantage of a naive young kid. Thinking he was getting the deal of a lifetime.
Looking back, nothing in the box would be worth much now. If anything would still like to have them for sentimental reasons.
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04-19-2024, 03:08 PM
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Painful Memories. My top 5:
1. E95 Wagner in VG condition 2. T206 SGC40 Red Cobb w/ Polar Bear Back 3. T206 SGC20 Green Cobb 4. E95 Matty 5. T206 PSA3 Young Port - Hindu back Sold them all (and a lot more) for a song back in 2007 after getting laid off. Very short-sighted of me. Alas, I'm still collecting and having fun! Bill
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04-19-2024, 03:13 PM
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So many painful
 memories, as a lot of friends on the forum have had. I will just leave it at I sold a '25 Gehrig Exhibit for 10k that ended up in a 6 holder. I had won it in '97? in a mastro auction. I was in a shower in Jamaica bidding on the phone, there weren't computers so much back then. It was sold raw as NR-MT- MT....but it was a 6.
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04-25-2024, 06:56 AM
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Quote:
This... Things I've sold that I've instantly regretted.... 1. I sold a Graig Kreindler painting of Ty Cobb in 2021 (dumbest move ever). 2. I sold a T200 Cincinnati Reds team card that was graded a PSA 6, but looked NM-MT. Just an amazingly beautiful card. 3. Around 1997-98'ish I sold over fifteen T206 PSA 8's, and more than a dozen PSA 7's....including Southern Leaguers. This was when 8's were selling for $450-$600 and 7's were bringing $125-$175. 4. I sold a half dozen N172's in a group that were all SGC 40-60, but had the best image quality you could imagine. These all still hurt. I've made many, many more dumbass moves over the years but these always come to mind first.
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04-19-2024, 03:16 PM
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I think all collectors are bonded by having the ones we let slip away. I've come to look at it as part of the journey of collecting cards. Plus, I figure as long as I love my collection the way it is in the present moment, I must therefore be at peace will all the moves made in the past that led to this moment.
My five are: M101 Ruth 1925 Exhibit Gehrig RC (two of them) Tip Top Wagner e90-1 Jackson (two of them) CJ Jackson (three of them) Honorable mention to a dead centered 52T Mick 5.5, Zeenut Batting Joe D, D304 Cobb, and two worthy-of-the-grade PSA 10 Fleer Jordans. But without parting with a few of those above, I would never have landed a couple of cards I have today that are my favorites I've ever had. So it all comes out in the wash. Now excuse me while I go hang myself 
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04-19-2024, 04:10 PM
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Can only think of 1 at the moment. A raw 1940 Playball Jo DiMaggio that would have graded a 6 to a 7.
Oh yea, 3 Michael Jordan rookie cards graded PSA 9, PSA 8, and PSA 8 that I sold way too early.
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