Dmitri Young collection prices!? WHAT!

[Brianruns10]

What surprises me is that the '52 Hoyt Willhelm rookie fetched "only" $25,000. Honestly, if I that sort of dough to throw around, I would've been willing to pay twice that. I mean, we're dealing with a unique example, a rookie card for a Hall of Famer, a Topps high number, and just a damn beautiful card (Wilhelm's sleepy eyes aside). What more can you ask for?

[Brianruns10]

According to this article-

http://thebiglead.com/index.php/2012...t-for-charity/

-Dmitri spent $5,000,000 to build this collection, yet at auction the lot raised around $2.5 million...

Unless I'm missing something, the dude got taken to the 'effin cleaners on this one...

[GasHouseGang]

If that article is accurate he spent $5 million on 497 cards. That's $10060 per card. That includes all of those "rare" Bonds rookies and Dmitri Young rookies that were offered. I find it hard to believe that he could have spent that much. A lot of the money spent had to go to overhead for the guy he had fly around buying his collection. Clearly the cards aren't worth that much, as the auction results show.

[Brianruns10]

And he's donating "part" of the revenues to charity. A shame he didn't take the 5 million and donate that, instead of embarking on a vanity project buying perfect 10s, and turning that 5 million into a 2.5 million net loss

[Volod]

Call it sour grapes, but I hope to live long enough to see the investment market for collectible cards collapse. Then, grinning toothlessly while my palsied hands caress my old pasteboards, I will know they are worth exactly as much as those once owned by the great Dmitri.

[travrosty]

he could have spent the 5 million on as many t206 wagners as he could hoard and he would have probably made a profit. the prices for wagners is crazy too but understand the mystique and lore, not the mystique and lore of a psa 10 joe shlobotnik rookie card.

[theseeker]

If grading serves and the registry never existed, would these gem mint tens get anywhere near the premium they have received over an eight or a nine? Did the Willie Horton RC get a lot more desirable in that gem mint slab? It did get a lot more expensive. PSA sure make Dimitri a lot of money on that one.

[begsu1013]

bump for peter


end of story.

[ashes13]

If only Dimitri had waited 4 more years...........Doh!!! millions left on the table? Maybe ten million? Did he have 10s of the Clemente and Aaron?

[Stonepony]

Originally Posted by ashes13

If only Dimitri had waited 4 more years...........Doh!!! millions left on the table? Maybe ten million? Did he have 10s of the Clemente and Aaron?

Yup, that dang bubble theory

[pokerplyr80]

Originally Posted by ashes13

If only Dimitri had waited 4 more years...........Doh!!! millions left on the table? Maybe ten million? Did he have 10s of the Clemente and Aaron?

Looks like he had every post war rookie expect mays, mantle, robinson, koufax, and Ryan in a 10. And yea he probably should have waited a few years to sell. Quite the collection.

[TheNightmanCometh]

Originally Posted by begsu1013

bump for peter


end of story.

Double bump for peter.

[Stonepony]

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