Mosconi Plaques

[Logandgriff]

I bought three plaques on eBay shortly after Willie Mosconi died. One is an Industry Service Award from the Billiard and Bowling Institute of America. One is from Mosconi’s induction into the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame (with a program from the induction ceremony). The last is a golf award from his golf club. I tried to add photos to this message but a message says there is too much data. Likely I am doing it wrong.

I’m interested in selling these if I can get some decent money or failing that to sell them to some collector or museum.

Do any of you know if any comparable items that have sold and their prices or any other ideas about values here?

Thank you.

 

[Bob Jewett]

.... I tried to add photos to this message but a message says there is too much data. ...

Each image file has to be under a megabyte.

 

[Logandgriff]

Each image file has to be under a megabyte.

Ok I finally figured out how to attach these photos. (Thanks for the 1mb info Bob.)

Any thoughts on comparable items that have sold, estimates on value or any other comments or ideas? Thanks very much.

 

[Bob Jewett]

Ok I finally figured out how to attach these photos. (Thanks for the 1mb info Bob.)

Any thoughts on comparable items that have sold, estimates on value or any other comments or ideas? Thanks very much.

There was a guy in Florida (Brad Morris) who did a lot of billiard-related auctions, but he has gotten out of the business. Maybe you could find him and ask about value.

A wild guess if you find a serious Mosconi collector would be 200 to 500. There is a Chinese Billiard Hall of Fame (and museum) that opened in the last year but I have no idea how to contact them.

 

[Johnson]

I would first try to sell them on here before listing on Ebay, even if they don't sell you can price high and feel out the market for Ebay if need be. Ebay fees are RIDICULOUSLY high and if you don't pay even higher fees for promoted listings (which have fees on top of fees for them, same goes for shipping). Ebay will put more effort into hiding your listing than actually marketing them. In my experience any items under $70 get hidden but they have a difficult time hiding $70+ items from buyers. I would list these individually highly priced in a buy now with best offer option and lower the price each month or so until it starts getting watchers. Also add a combined shipping price for 2 or 3. Maybe start promoted listings 3 - 6% after 4 - 6 months.

Also if you are technically challenged I would start the listings on a laptop/desktop and if you download the Ebay app on your phone you can directly upload photos to your listings from it instantly. My Samsung phone takes clearer pics than my $150 canon camera. Researching the history of each item with any background info (dates) would be helpful.

 

[Chicagoplayer]

I bought three plaques on eBay shortly after Willie Mosconi died. One is an Industry Service Award from the Billiard and Bowling Institute of America. One is from Mosconi’s induction into the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame (with a program from the induction ceremony). The last is a golf award from his golf club. I tried to add photos to this message but a message says there is too much data. Likely I am doing it wrong.

I’m interested in selling these if I can get some decent money or failing that to sell them to some collector or museum.

Do any of you know if any comparable items that have sold and their prices or any other ideas about values here?

Thank you.

I had the same issue. On your phone:
Go into pictures, hit the Markup button once, then hit done and it should upload

 

[Logandgriff]

Thanks for all the great advice!