For $24,000 you could buy 3 – 12 game used bats of Derek Jeter, some including his autograph on them, a 2015 Ford Mustang, or a baseball card numbered 1/1 with a bat knob from a bat that Jeter used in a game. Double that range ($4,000 – $8,000) and you can get an entire game used bat of Jeter that is also autographed by him complete with the same LOAs/COAs (Letter of Authenticity/Certificate of Authenticity). In fact, you can purchase an entire game used bat used by Jeter certified by Steiner or PSA DNA (both leading authenticators of sports memorabilia) on eBay for $2,000-$ 4,000. Most collectors or anyone for that matter does not have an extra $24,000 to spend on a single baseball card. The seller is asking $24,000 or best offer. The card contains the bat knob (bottom of the bat) of a bat Jeter used a MLB game. There is a seller who is selling a 2013 Topps Tribute bat knob card of Derek Jeter numbered 1/1. If you do a quick search on eBay for 1/1 (use true 1/1 for an easier time) some 1/1s are listed for the price of a new car. Therefore it is only worth what a buyer is willing to pay for it. Part of this struggle is because there is nothing else like it to compare it too for a price. When something is so unique that it is a one of a kind collectable, it is hard to price. However, some sellers of these cards seem to think otherwise. However, a celebrity’s diary would be worth much more and could be sold and sought after. My diary would not have any value and I could not sell it. If I wrote a diary it would be unique and a 1/1 item, but since I am not famous nobody (except maybe my girlfriend) would want to read it. Despite the fact that my cards are rare and the only ones in existence, they are nowhere worth the money of the T206 Wagner, even though they are not 1/1 and more than one is known to exist. This leads to my first point regarding 1/1s, they are not valuable just because they are rare. To put things into context my Mike Mussina and Clay Buchholz 1/1, I paid somewhere around $20 – $30 apiece for them. The Wagner can fetch anywhere from a couple hundred thousand dollars to a record breaking $2.1 million in April of 2013 depending on grade and condition. Less than 60 legitimate Wagner’s are known to exist today, at least three of which are stored in museums or libraries. Often considered the most desirable and valuable baseball card in the world is the 1909-1911 T206 of Honus Wagner. While a 1/1 is probably one of the highlights of most card collections, they are not the most valuable cards in the world. I personally, have two different 1/1s in my collection, one of Mike Mussina and the other of Clay Buchholz (jersey card too) and a 1/1 printing plate the of Edmonton Oilers star Jordan Eberle. It is supposed to be the rarest card in the set and one of the nicest pulls you could have. In the world of sports cards, cards get numbered 1/1 or some higher end sets will write out “one of one”, meaning they are only one printed that look exactly like this. Like everything else in the world, the rarest thing you could possibly have is a one of a kind item, meaning it is the only one in the world and none others like it exist, in theory anyways. It’s the same concept when it comes to overprinting money, that it loses value the more of it that is printed.ĬHECK OUT OUR ARTICLE ON: THE ETHICS OF SPORTS CARD COLLECTIVE (3-Part Series) 1/1 Sports Cards: Holy Grails or Traps? The card companies almost bankrupt the industry in the late 80s and early 90s because they over produced cards which caused them to decrease in value. Another thing short printing and numbering does, is it helps control the supply of cards and limits the market to prevent it from becoming flooded. Card companies often number or short print their cards to motivate collectors to buy more products and hunt for those super rare cards to add to their collection. Part of the fun of collecting sports cards is finding truly rare and unique cards.
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