Cal's "Holy Grail" up for auction

[RITM]

Final price (including commission) for the Ripken: $11,850.

Final price (including commission) for the partial set of 15 Police cards: $651.75.

Total for both lots: $12,501.75.

Incredible.

 

[RStadlerASU22]

Not a bad day for the seller I assume. I had thought over $5-7 but didn't see 10k on a 4, but wow

Ryan

 

[magicpapa]

WOW

 

[jbhofmann]

Does this start to move the needle on other Minor issues?

 

[MansGame]

It's funny how the commission is added at the end and not taken from the bid. Doesn't make a lot of sense to me.


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[MansGame]

I'm other news, the sale in general doesn't make a lot of sense to me... I guess I'll keep moving.


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[cbrandtw]

Chris,
Thanks for all the information and excitement in the search you have provided me with over the past few years for this card and set. An absolutely amazing card.


Brandt

 

[sheetskout]

Card stock, even among lower-tiered producers, has come a long way.

 

[MansGame]

Did a member win this card?

 

[tunahead]

Just going to file this under "cards I'll never be able to own"

Pretty amazing sale for an awesome card!

 

[MansGame]

Just going to file this under "cards I'll never be able to own"

Pretty amazing sale for an awesome card!

You could own it... just would take 11 or 12 large stacks

 

[tunahead]

You could own it... just would take 11 or 12 large stacks

I just could never justify it unless I was making a lot more than I am now! That and my girlfriend would dump me in a heartbeat

 

[RITM]

Not a bad day for the seller I assume. I had thought over $5-7 but didn't see 10k on a 4, but wow

Ryan

As of August, PSA/BGS/SGC had slabbed a combined 20 copies of the card. I know of at least one copy recently slabbed by PSA, bringing the total known population to 21. This is one of those rare cards where I do not believe a potential owner is worried about condition. It's not so much the idea of holding out for a better grade to surface as it is just owning one. This is the first public auction of one of these since 2007.

There is a known PSA 7 and PSA 8. This in itself is pretty amazing considering how the cards were distributed. In the summer of 1980, officers from the Charlotte Police Department handed out one or two cards at a time to children. The majority of distribution reports I have heard centers on officers finding kids around town and handing them out. I have also heard that some were given out at schools. I presume either before school let out for summer or in the fall of 1980. Either way, it is going to be tough for a kid to keep one in mint condition. The stock of the card plays a factor as well as it is not what I would call a traditional card stock. Very flimsy card. Very thin stock.

 

[RITM]

Chris,
Thanks for all the information and excitement in the search you have provided me with over the past few years for this card and set. An absolutely amazing card.


Brandt

Hi sir. Glad to be of assistance. I had a hunch that you were paying very close attention to what was going down last night.

 

[RITM]

I just could never justify it unless I was making a lot more than I am now! That and my girlfriend would dump me in a heartbeat

The sad thing is that I had an opportunity to purchase one of them in 2006 for a little over $900. Life was different then and I simply did not have the extra cash. Talk about a return on investment.

 

[cbrandtw]

Do you guys remember some time last year when I bought a collection of 1980 Ripken cards that included both the WBTV and Police cards and the seller reneged on me? I was upset then. Now I'm really steaming. Oh well. Life goes on.

 

[MansGame]

Do you guys remember some time last year when I bought a collection of 1980 Ripken cards that included both the WBTV and Police cards and the seller reneged on me? I was upset then. Now I'm really steaming. Oh well. Life goes on.

No way lol... Wow


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[RITM]

Do you guys remember some time last year when I bought a collection of 1980 Ripken cards that included both the WBTV and Police cards and the seller reneged on me? I was upset then. Now I'm really steaming. Oh well. Life goes on.

That was tough. Didn't that guy ultimately sell the cards? I can't remember what became of them.

Hindsight is always 20/20 but a lot of people who have been selling the orange cards via BIN have got to be feeling sick right now.

 

[SINFULONE]

What did the PSA 7 ans 8 sell for?

 

[Will Style 13]

And this is why my Ripken collection will always feel incomplete.