What do you guys think about this?. Does the SMR have these way undervalued or is this a one time thing? This particular card books at $350 in psa 8. With the juice, this card went for $1,546.30.
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Re: Guess the Price January 19 2007, 2:17 PM
These prices are from last nights Mile High auction. Also of interest, a 1935 OPC Psa 8 common went for over $1300 plus a 17.5% buyers premium.
Elmar. I'm not sharp enough on this set to break down the price but if the Howe and Schmidt are going to cost you about $8000 maybe it wasn't too bad a closing bid. Jim.
In this particular case the SMR is nothing but crap.
Like Tom said, if you have a card which nobody else in the World does (or if you go for such unique card), you will name the price. This card is one of a kind...
For high grade pre-war hockey SMR cannot even be close to accurate. There are so few cards out there that it would be impossible to come up with prices. Check out vintagecardprices.com for hockey. It is hard to put a value on these cards as so few change hands.
Jim - The seller claims the card is worth $2500 in EXMT, he is not a grader but the card is low grade and yet $3000 is not enough. I wonder what a card like that would garner in a major auction.
Of course, SMR is off on high-grade pre-war cards. They're not offered nor seen enough to reflect anything close to an accurate amount. Moreover, hockey will always be the ill-begotten stepchild of the other sports and thus, not kept as up-to-date. Please remember, that these are just guides. Multiples of guide and percentages of guide are what many collectors of obscure (because of either high-grade or scarcity) items go buy.
As far as the C57 Vezina card, this person should have known that I sold my SGC 40/3 (which was probably closer to a 30/2) about 1 year ago for about $4000. Given that amount, I estimated this card to be around $2000. Still, this is significantly more than the Poor-Fair price of $600 for a $2500 ExMt card. However, given the scarcity and signficance of the card and set, $2000 to me is reasonable. Unless someone is not really to looking to sell or they are just testing the market, I would suppose that such people will continue to keep their cards.
I agree with your assessments. I have noticed that even though hockey cards fall behind baseball, football and basketball in popularity in the u.s - #1 in canada though...the momentum seems to be picking up for the older/vintage material. Recent auctions would indicate this...I have noticed prices escalating for sets and singles...Mastro, Mile High etc...
I was puzzled as to why the seller quoted a price guide(beckett?) for an exmt card when he did not have any intention in selling the card at a percentage of that price. Jim.
