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Scott ElkinsEarly 80's - EX/MT 1915 Cracker Jack Ty Cobb at a Flea Market in TN for $100 - not much now, but expensive for a 10 year old at the time with only yard work money and a $10/two week allowance!
Mid-Late 1990's - Passed on a VERY NICE VG/EX E90-1 Shoeless Joe Jackson Rookie from Mike Wheat - price was ONLY $1450!!!!!!!!!! Instead I OVERPAID for a VG+ E93 Cobb - around $750 because I like the pose! I "BELIEVE", but am not sure that John Spencer bought the Jackson. The one he consigned to SCP a few years back sure looked like the one from Mike Wheat. If so, John got around $10k for that card - I MISSED OUT ON $8500 PROFIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That would still buy a lot of horizontal caramels for me, even at today's prices!
Also a few years back I passed on a T206 rare back lot in a Mastro auction, even though I was CERTAIN the Lenox (which was very nice) was a Brown Print! Come to find out, John Spencer won the lot and the Lenox INDEED was a BROWN print!
On these last two deals I passed on (if John did buy the Jackson from Mike Wheat), I am happy about one thing - that it was John Spencer who reaped the rewards, because I have dealt with John in the past and he was always a SUPER NICE guy!!!!! John, if you read this, just let me know if the Jackson you auctioned was the one from Mike Wheat - PLEASE - I am tired of only being around 60% certain it was!
09-24-2004, 11:15 PM
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