Need help trying to figure out if these Cobbs are trimmed.. I know this might not be the easiest question just from the pictures.. but if they are not trimmed.. what condition do you think they both are in.. vg and vg-ex...?
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350 - yes

350/460 - yes, just barely, though.


Still, nice looking Cobbs.

Neither one appear to be trimmed to me.

Scott

they do look short, but maybe just miscut - the corners look okay because the wear looks old and not a recent cut. I would just grade them anyways and see what happens. The bottom one looks more trimmed



Jimmy

Many of the lots in that auction sold for very strong prices.

eBay bidder a***r 119 seems to be winning a large percentage of the lots, including both Cobbs in question above.

That bidder won the 350-460 one I had bid on for $1500!

I just got back from this sale the cards went NUTS and it was all to ebay biddres and a few cobbs went to phone bidders. I didn't think those cobbs were trimmed so glad I didn't get them. I knew one of the Mattys was trimmed and it went for $600+.

Considering I spent 6+ hours looking over the cards I thought I had a good handle on the condition and value. My gut is that everything went for 70-80% of retail which is nuts considering there were probably more trimmed cards then I noticed and they were all raw.

This was a single owner collection that was passed down, so any trimming was done ages ago.

I also was not happy with the auctionieer. He kept VERY long counts which made it very hard to close on a lot regardless of if it was phone, floor or internet bidders.

I would say that probably only 10-15 card lots sold to floor bidders and most people didn't win more then 1 or 2.

I found it interesting that there were not a lot of odd cards with only a 2-3 ghost images and nothing totally nuts.

I will post more on the lot I won later as well as the details of the sale total as I kept track.

James G

Looking for 1915 Cracker Jacks and 1909-11 American Caramel E90-1.

By my cursory glance, the eBay bidder mentioned above won about 3/4 of the card lots - maybe he wanted to keep the collection together.

The prices seemed very strong to me - both on individual cards and on lots. James - I'd be frustrated if I put the work in that you did.

I thought the prices were high, I was on eBay, I picked up 2 of the beater Cobb's plus 3 of the 24+ card lots, including 2 dark cap Matty's a couple of Crawford's and a Walter Johnson short one corner. I am not in it for high grades, I just wanted to add to my collection, and at $40 a card I think I did pretty well considering all the names that filled out the lots.....of course I could be wrong.

A good deal of the lots had some really beat cards, but there were some nice ones as well. The two beat Cobbs went for $325 Red Port and $375 batt off. Plus the 20% BP I think you could have bought a nicer already graded example and not dealt with the risk of cards being trimmed.

I am not super familiar with this issue and I certainly didn't measure the cards, but if I noticed some trimmed stuff you can bet there will be more of them I didn't notice.

I just think it was high risk with little to no reward. That plus almost all the lots were poorly sorted so a lot of them had doubles or even triples of the same cards. There were are least 2-3 lots with several Chance yellow portraits. Oddly enough there were multiples of some HOF and almost none of others.

It almost was fun, but having so much sell to the net really too a lot out of me. If it wasn't for all the other people not interested in the cards filling the room there would have been 10-15 people tops and we got very little.

James G

Looking for 1915 Cracker Jacks and 1909-11 American Caramel E90-1.

James
I hear what you are saying on the Cobb's, I probably could have gotten graded cards, but I am shifting to "all beater" collecting. Time will tell if I got the right lots or not, I am looking forward to getting them in to see all the cards.

Sorry it wasn't a better time, I love auctions, and sorely miss east coast sales. I wish I could have attended this sale, more for the fact that I need my Sweetzel's Ginger Snap fix.

Brian,

You can buy anything on-line, not just baseball cards.


http://www.pageneralstore.com/products.asp?dept=20

Jim gets the gold star of the day!! Just need to get them to ship to Oregon and I am golden!

They'll ship to you, anywhere in the US.

(After we moved from Ohio to Texas, my wife and kids have insisted on "ordering in" our old favorite ice cream. If you can ship ice cream, you can ship ginger snaps!)

The order is in! Whatta day, 2 Cobb's 2 Matty's and 3 boxes of Sweetzel's!

Jim,

Graeter's?

Rob D,

Absolutely. The best chocolate chips ice cream around, in a variety of flavors. We order the 12 pack several times each year (try to time it for birthdays, graduations, etc.)

Jim,

I'll probably be denied my Golden Buckeye card someday for saying this, but I've never understood all of the raves over Graeter's. I like it, to be sure, just never thought it was all that.

Now, if you want to talk Skyline Chili, that's a whole 'nother story.

Montgomery Inn ribs and Derosa's Pizza!

Derosa's?

Maybe LaRosa's?

Of course, sorry, baseball on the brain.

My Ohio life was contained to the Columbus area and both Montgomery's and LaRosa's had stayed as Cincy icons while Skyline and Graeters grew north. I hear they're building a Montgomery's in Dublin now.

Edited to say- Way to hijack a thread, huh?

It's dinnertime, what'ya expect. I only lived in Cincy for about a year but it was great.

Our food is great, but our weather leaves a lot to be desired!

your football team. Sorry I couldn't resist. Your food is great; Maisonette, The Mike Fink. I'm getting hungry.

We have a great football team as long as you are referring to the Orange Bowl bound Bearcats! The Maisonette was an excellent restaurant, but it went out of business 3 years ago. Mike Fink is being remodeled, but it's supposed to be reopening soon.