#5473823 - 02/24/1203:00 PMRe: SA Feb Heritage Auction -- Curators, etc.
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Interesting to see that some of the choice big dollar bids were won via phone bids. I'm betting these were scooped up by a big dealer instead of a collector?
#5473824 - 02/24/1203:00 PMRe: SA Feb Heritage Auction -- Curators, etc.
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I asked the guys at Heritage why the run was referred to as the Northstar collection and wasn't given the Curator designation at first, and they said that the consignor was unaware the run was from the Curator pedigree, and so they were unaware, too.
#5473829 - 02/24/1203:04 PMRe: SA Feb Heritage Auction -- Curators, etc.
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Interesting to see that some of the choice big dollar bids were won via phone bids. I'm betting these were scooped up by a big dealer instead of a collector?
Not necessarily as there really were not that many people in the room. I was at the Twin Cities auction and there were many more people in attendance at that auction.
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#5473862 - 02/24/1203:20 PMRe: SA Feb Heritage Auction -- Curators, etc.
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Interesting to see that some of the choice big dollar bids were won via phone bids. I'm betting these were scooped up by a big dealer instead of a collector?
Not necessarily as there really were not that many people in the room. I was at the Twin Cities auction and there were many more people in attendance at that auction.
Yeah very surprising. If I was in town I defintely would have made an effort to see it live.
#5475284 - 02/25/1212:24 AMRe: SA Feb Heritage Auction -- Curators, etc.
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Originally Posted By: namisgr
I asked the guys at Heritage why the run was referred to as the Northstar collection and wasn't given the Curator designation at first, and they said that the consignor was unaware the run was from the Curator pedigree, and so they were unaware, too.
That`s pretty shocking, actually, for guys making a living from this hobby and who should presumably know better than anyone else where the bodies are.
If Dan Jurgens had come to me and said that he wanted to sell a bunch of really nice FFs that he had owned for a while, even a non-plugged-in dumbarse like me would`ve known that they must be the Curators.
Also a black eye to CGC for not wondering whether there was something unusual about this incredibly well preserved FF run that had been submitted to them. There used to be a time when the guys at CGC were sharp enough to actually identify that a book was a pedigree even though the owner didn`t know himself and had submitted it without any designation. CGC would then actually do some additional legwork on their own to confirm that the book was indeed a pedigree.
It`s great that the Boards did the job for Heritage and CGC and got the books correctly identified.
#5475481 - 02/25/1207:16 AMRe: SA Feb Heritage Auction -- Curators, etc.
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Originally Posted By: tth2
If Dan Jurgens had come to me and said that he wanted to sell a bunch of really nice FFs that he had owned for a while, even a non-plugged-in dumbarse like me would`ve known that they must be the Curators.
You're pretty plugged in--we've said around here for years in many different threads that a "famous comic artist" owned the Curator FFs. I can't think of anything someone at Heritage would have known other than having known that slightly generic bit of info or knowing specifically that it was Jurgens.
#5477076 - 02/25/1209:29 PMRe: SA Feb Heritage Auction -- Curators, etc.
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Originally Posted By: dem1138
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Interesting to see that some of the choice big dollar bids were won via phone bids. I'm betting these were scooped up by a big dealer instead of a collector?
Not necessarily as there really were not that many people in the room. I was at the Twin Cities auction and there were many more people in attendance at that auction.
Yeah very surprising. If I was in town I defintely would have made an effort to see it live.
Same here as I would most definitley show up at a Heritage auction if one was ever held in my city.
Maybe NYC with over 8 million people is just too small of a city to expect to draw more than 20 people to an event of this magnitude. Maybe you have to look for an city with over 20 million people if you want to have a chance of getting 100 live bodies out there.
Even during the middle of the big SD convention with over 100,000 bona fide comic collectors right in the next room, Heritage was unable to convince more than 20 people to show up for one of their Signature Auctions.
You would have thought they could have rounded up more bums off Skid Road to come in, considering all of the free food and refreshments that Heritage always has available for anybody willing to show up.
