Where Have all the Good Vintage Gloves Gone?

[vintagebrett]

The past two months on eBay have been very slow in offering up any good vintagegloves (a few exceptions of course). I used to have between 10 and 15 items a week I would be watching with 2 or 3 I would have serious interest in bidding on. The past couple weeks, I've barely had 1 or 2 gloves a week to watch. Hopefully with warm weather coming back, more flea markets and baseball season in full swing, we'll see more quality gloves up. Do you guys see the same thing?

[rosajr]

Brett,

I see the same thing , it's been slow since Dec, thought it would pick up with baseball coming but hasn't. Sometines I see the same gloves that haven't sold, back on auction again. I'm wondering that with the hobby becoming so popular, that the number of available gloves are dwindling.

Jim

[vintagebrett]

Which makes it better for a seller because there is more competition from the collectors to get a nice item. There was a lot of 4 gloves up a week or so ago that I thought was going to be interesting - unfortunately it was ended early.

It has to be tough for burker72 to come up with his Gloves of the Week thread because there isn't much to chat about. Hopefully the spring tag sale/flea market season will bring out some good stuff.

[Mike_2007]

I agree regarding Ebay not having a lot of gloves I'm interested in ( high end modern gloves). Actually, over he last 5 years, the kinds of gloves I watch and bid on have never been in abundance. From memory, it seems some of the nice gloves came from collectors who decided to sell some or all of their collection. For instance I remember a sellers with a names like "rawusahohcollector" or "tebuteb" listing a bunch of nice gloves. I haven't seen anyone recently selling off their "keepers" from collections.

A few years ago there was a buyer that would bid on all the nice gloves and drive the price up - forget his Ebay name... Later another buyer "hometalent" would also buy a lot of stuff. Anyone remember those days?

[stockbuddy]

Hi Brett, I have noticed the same thing on ebay as well. Just my humble opinion, but I think we may be seeing the tail end of many(antique dealers, people who have gloves in their attic and basement etc.) in this country who have placed them on ebay to sell over the last 10 years. I am thinking the supply of the old vintage gloves are nearly gone. I also agree with the poster on this thread that the vintage gloves are surfacing from previous collectors who are currently thinning down the heards. We saw the cubguy put gloves on recently from his collection of over 40 years. I wish there were more old timer gloves to come, but I think we may only see them when folks like cubguy and glover3 and some of the collectors decide to thin out their collections for whatever the reason.

I would also agree that the old timers will be tougher to comeby and it will be more competition for those old desirable gloves that remain. JMHO.

Dave

[MVALZ]

Hmmmm...good time to list my extra HSP

[BretMan]

There was a time there where it seemed like every single auction I looked at had a bid from eBayer "Hometalent".

Does anyone know who that is and if he might by chance be a poster on this forum?

[MVALZ]

'Hometalent' is Pat from Wisconsin. Good guy. Purchased many gloves from me and loves his Mizunos and Joe Adcock PMs. I'm pretty sure I've mentioned the forum to him, but I'll send him a note.

[wjr953]

Can't agree with you more, Bret. As someone who watches gloves on eBay very closely, I'm at a loss to explain it. There are over 4000 listings on eBay right now under Mitts & Gloves. A whole big bunch of those are batting glove listings, which for the life of me, I don't understand their being listed in this category. There are many, many, many new gloves as well. The vintage and/or collectible ones are few and far between. With baseball season upon us, it certainly is a seller's market for new and used gloves in decent shape.

br

[vintagebrett]

Even the auction houses don't seem to have much in their spring offerings - Hunt's April auction has nothing special, the Robert Edwards Auction (which I thought would have some nice gloves) has two in the box, but even they aren't all that special. Mastro hasn't released their spring auction items yet but they rarely have anything interesting anymore.