Vintage Baseball Glove Forum

I've adusted my vertical and my horizonta. . . but today:
a blazer but common Stan Musial mint PML glove sold for whopping $360
a toughie Hank Greenberg for only $67

It's all in the minds of the buyers.

It's definitely a head scratcher sometimes, Joe. Even more than the gloves themselves, I am amazed at the prices realized on some of the boxes. Boxes that I would guess to finish around $150-200 routinely end up at $300-500 or more. Do those prices surprise anyone else?

Not for a minute

JD

Well 3 tigers Ashburn glove just went for $510.00 while his Connie Ryan did just $135.00

I think he listed them for us at $225.00 each

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The $510 was a complete surprise.

Curious on the boxes situation. When John Graham and I made some boxed glove purchases from Fort Worth seller about 20 years ago at the local national, the dealer told us that some of his boxes had deteriorated in the several years that he owned them and left in his cellar while the gloves generally were fine. My point is that age is harder on the cardboard than on the leather both left unused and untouched. The Fort Worth seller had gotten his gloves from the first 'big bang" mint glove sale (see James Mace glove book) originally sold by Lou Lipsett I believe. To me obviously condition and resultant display appeal has become the eye catchers in the glove market.
But in line with this thread has been the dearth of big sporting goods store sales such as the 50 to 100 Emjay finds in the south and the diminutive San Antonio batch of 30 gloves in the last 20 years.
Now, the most we see are at the most five to 10 gloves and these mostly by collectors rather than 'finds."
Just some thoughts.

Have to admit that I haven't given enough weight to the scarcity and popularity of boxes with collectors. I'll see a box for a very common glove, a Marty Marion G600 for instance, and think that common glove=common box, when that's not the case. And they are obviously desired by many collectors. I'm not shocked by the prices realized on picture boxes any more, in fact I'm more surprised when one doesn't do well even if it has major condition issues. 3 Tigers; glad your ebay surprise was on the plus side of the ledger!

Boxes are attractive to other collectors besides hard core glove guys. Team collectors are keen on them - just look at that video Josh shared of the Dodger collector. I bet that speaks to the Ashburn price - Philly collectors.