If you were paying attention to eBay this past week, you probably saw a seller parsing out a collection of cards that included some rather rare cards. These are cards that almost never come up for auction. One of the more interesting results was for a 13 postcard lot that included D-131 (NT0122). This card shows the Art Corner at Disneyland circa 1957 or so. This card was probably not that interesting to most folks back in the day, so I suspect it was not often purchased, hence the rarity.
But this auction was, I suspect, not entirely driven by that card. Two pre-opening cards were also offered that had postmarks from 1955. I have seen some people put a premium on cards with 1955 postmarks…the closer to July the better. But I have found that the influence of the early postmark stops being a real price driver outside of July/August. I would be interested on the thoughts of other collectors here.
The lot also included a nice D-111 Fort Wilderness card. You don’t see this that often either, but it is not rare…I have it as “Common” in the price guide and it probably belongs on the high end of that scale.
I have the NT0122 Art Corner card listed as “Rare” in the price guide. It probably belongs in the “Very Rare” category though, given that that the lot got $113.
I will talk more about the other auction results from this seller in the coming days. He has more lots up this week, by the way!
Until next time…
I wanted this lot so much. I had bid just over $100 but that’s as high as I was willing to go. Just a thought… You mentioned the D-111 card as at the high end of the common pricing. How about this card being listed as Common/Uncommon with a new price range to go with it? There are other cards that fit this type of listing. For example, NT0015, 0016 and 0017 could be listed as Uncommon/Rare. Just a thought for further fine tuning. Maybe that’s more detail than you want to get though. Anyway, your site is great and I turn to it daily to help me with making decisions when bidding.
Rob
Hey Rob…I have thought about that little problem as well. I think as things mature, I am going to do something here. Your solution is as good as any…and things could stay as they are while referring to some cards this way. This is essentially how they deal with it in comic books…Very Good/Fine for example. I am also thinking up some other changes for the site…they will not be trivial to implement, but stay tuned!