SCP Auctions is now seeking consignments for its Winter Premier Auction. The deadline to consign is Friday, Nov. 11, 2016, but don’t delay. SCP Auctions is coming off two incredibly successful auctions already this year ($7.2 million Spring Premier and $5.1 million Mid-Summer Classic) and is preparing for yet another blockbuster online auction! Be a part of history and consign with SCP Auctions today!
In SCP Auctions’ 2016 Spring Premier auction, online bidders were trading blow for blow in hot pursuit of the historical 1857 “Laws of Base Ball” documents and once the dust had settled, an eye-popping high bid of $3,263,246 secured the precious baseball pages whose author was recently identified as Daniel Lucius “Doc” Adams, who was then serving as President of the New York Knickerbockers Base Ball Club. Adams drafted the manuscript for presentation at the historic Base Ball Convention of 1857 in New York City. Adams’ “Laws of Base Ball” were the focal point of the convention and among dozens of newly proposed rules and guidelines established for the first time including setting the base paths at 90 feet, the number of men to a side at nine, and the duration of the game at nine innings.
In SCP Auctions’ 2016 Mid-Summer Classic online auction, a pair of iconic pre-war baseball cards led the bidding. The top card, which sold for an astounding $667,189, is one of just two examples of the legendary 1909 E90-1 Joe Jackson American Caramel card graded NM-MT 8 by third-party authenticator PSA Cards with none graded higher. The second card, a 1909-11 T206 tobacco issue of Detroit Tigers Hall of Fame center fielder Ty Cobb, is one of the hobby’s finest of “The Georgia Peach” from the most celebrated card set of the era issued at the peak of Cobb’s dominance. The beautifully preserved card, which received a grade of “Mint 9” from PSA Cards, sold for $488,425.
Please contact info@scpauctions.com or call 949-831-3700 to get the ball rolling! November 11th will be here before you know it! – Terry Melia