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Starting a new year off right with some interesting and weird items to add to the to-be-listed piles.
For $10, a cast iron bookend of football pioneer Amos Alonzo Stagg. I’d love to find its mate, surely in a box or on a warehouse shelf somewhere in the auction queue, but there’s enough a good sales history in Terapeak that I’ll make a few bucks no matter what.
For $12.50, this relic of Dick Clark and Philadelphia history. The seller had a few other Dick Clark items up for auction, basically everything from this auction house listing, but I lost out on the real cool stuff like the heavy glass award. I need to spend a few more bucks on this, as the award (really just a piece of paper + the typed letter as provenance) came in a cheap stained folder. I would like to think that I can find a buyer for this in the $100 range, but who knows.
In the trading card side of my business, I picked up about 20 licensed non-sports sketch cards in the $5 to $10 range. I do really well with these on consignment, and they’re a perfect item for consignment because I don’t have to do any work in identifying the character or artist — either the consignment company does it through their inventory processing system or an expert in non-sports cards will pick it up to flip or for their collection.
I also dropped just short of $200 on an autographed rookie printing plate of 49ers star Christian McCaffrey. The NFL playoffs just started and the 49ers are one of the favorites, with CMC (as he’s often called) the team’s best player on offense. I have this card listed for $1000 on my consignment site which is a few hundred dollars higher than any comps, but the most recent Terapeak sale (besides my “bargain” purchase) was $500 and the card market is very irrational around big events. I would be surprised if this sells for my full ask regardless of who wins the Super Bowl, but I can always lower the price a bit or consider an offer. I doubt I’ll lose money on the card even if it doesn’t sell until next year. There has been a market for “fancy” mid to high end autographs and serial numbered cards and rookies like this for a very long time. Admittedly, I was shocked when I won the auction. But that’s how bidding goes sometimes! It’s a fun experience and doesn’t always follow the patterns you might expect.
What did you find this week?
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Scavenging was quiet this week. I listed two bonus items (free with my skin care order from the manufacturer) during a big sale they had before Christmas. After Christmas I went to Marshalls and bought more lotion in Christmas packaging on clearance by this same brand. I have enough product to get me through much of the year in full and trial size, and hopefully will sell the included scented products I don’t like on Ebay to get some of my money back.
Also bought and listed 6 NIP older Pottery Barn pillow shams. I paid a Mercari seller about $10 apiece after shipping on a bundle of listings offer they accepted. That’s a little more than I would pay at the thrift store, so we’ll see how that goes.
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Saturday’s scavenge was a big pile of 1950s theatre programmes, 1960s bus timetables, 1970s speedway programmes, and some comic where the Justice League of America assault a giant starfish. I gathered these up from boxes on the floor of a car park in the dark at 6 in the morning. There was a crowd, but nobody else was bothering with the paper, so did I miss something or was there only one near-mint 2,000-dollar comic in amongst the timetables? Weird.
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There was a crowd, but nobody else was bothering with the paper, so did I miss something or was there only one near-mint 2,000-dollar comic in amongst the timetables?
If it’s this issue, then you’ve won scavenge of the year, barring another luxury hoarder find from @retro-treasures-wv. Disclaimer: I don’t know anything about comic books, merely got swept up playing around in Terapeak after reading your post. Also learned there is a market for 1960s era bus timetables in both the US (NYC in particular) and Europe. Incredible!
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@craig-rex I don’t know anything about comics either! Or bus timetables, though a local auction house sold a small collection of them for 420 GBP (500 dollars) recently. The ones I picked up aren’t as old- seem to go for around 20 GBP or less.
Next week, Honus Wagner peeking out from behind a 1970s TV listing magazine.
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