1915 Boston Red Sox Postcard vs 1905 W601 Detroit Tigers

[glchen]

Originally Posted by Rhotchkiss

I started a thread about this a while back. https://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=353304

I agree the Ruth beats the Cobb all day, but I also feel the price difference should be less than it is.

Phil, I think the most likely reasons are stated in the other thread that Ryan pointed out, namely, there are other "rookie" cards for Cobb that have much better eye appeal that collectors prefer with comparable postmark dates, and for Ruth, there are hardly any Red Sox cards available for him, so even a third year card like a 1918 Boston Store is worth over 100K.

Personally, I'm waiting for my faded c1916 postcard (that I paid ~$3500 in 2019) where you can barely see Ruth to hit six figures sometimes. It's even rarer than the W601! lol.

[mrreality68]

Originally Posted by glchen

Phil, I think the most likely reasons are stated in the other thread that Ryan pointed out, namely, there are other "rookie" cards for Cobb that have much better eye appeal that collectors prefer with comparable postmark dates, and for Ruth, there are hardly any Red Sox cards available for him, so even a third year card like a 1918 Boston Store is worth over 100K.

Personally, I'm waiting for my faded c1916 postcard (that I paid ~$3500 in 2019) where you can barely see Ruth to hit six figures sometimes. It's even rarer than the W601! lol.

Cool Piece Gary
IF you give up on it let me know.

[bcbgcbrcb]

Nice postcard, Gary. I had an accompanying Type 1 PSA photo taken from the same event likely only moments apart and at a different angle where Babe was partially obscured. Sold it last year, I think around $2,300, which was close to a grand below what I paid for it less than a year earlier. I guess comparing that one to the 15 Red Sox p/c is like comparing an apple to a fire hydrant.

Sorry, I couldn’t resist…..

[oldjudge]

And a well pissed on fire hydrant at that

[glchen]

Originally Posted by mrreality68

Cool Piece Gary
IF you give up on it let me know.

Thanks, Jeff.

Originally Posted by bcbgcbrcb

Nice postcard, Gary. I had an accompanying Type 1 PSA photo taken from the same event likely only moments apart and at a different angle where Babe was partially obscured. Sold it last year, I think around $2,300, which was close to a grand below what I paid for it less than a year earlier. I guess comparing that one to the 15 Red Sox p/c is like comparing an apple to a fire hydrant.

Sorry, I couldn’t resist…..

I know, Phil, I saw those sales. I think the issue there was that for some reason there were two sets of those photos from REA and LOTG, I think, that went to auction roughly at the same time, which likely depressed the prices. Anyway, I don't have high expectations for the postcard especially because you can't see Ruth very well, but still definitely cool to have.