Arrrgh. I was out of the country and missed this one. Kid Colt 218!!!!!!

I went to China for a week and completely missed this one.  One of the best variant hunters found a zero feedback seller listing a lot consisting of several issues of bronze age dreckage.  He smartly noticed that the seller was in Toledo, Ohio which we think is one of the test areas for selling 35 cent variants and that despite the sketchy pictures, this lot was worth the $50 bucks that the seller was asking.  Why would this normally ignored box of bronze age beaters be worth $50, you ask?  Well check the scan and look closely in the middle.

The variant hunter received the books and correctly listed the Kid Colt 218 as the super rare Kid Colt 218 35 cent price variant and the auction closed at $540.  Yes, $540 in VG, and I can assure you that the buyer was ecstatic.  If I had seen the auction, the book would have gone higher, but still it wasn't a bad return for the seller.  In my opinion,  sometimes 3 day auctions get missed, I think that a 7 day or 10 day auction would have achieved even better results for this book.

Ohh, and by the way, the lot also contained an even more beat-up Kid Colt 219.  We will see how that one does.