One of the football trading card market's longest running brands returns August 28 with 2019 Panini Absolute. Absolute will pack three five-card packs per box with five hits: three autographs and two memorabilia cards on average including one Rookie Premiere Materials card. This year, cases will include 12 boxes. Historically known for its relic cards, this … [Read more...]
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Heritage: New Money Helping Fuel Auction Prices
Some fresh money is helping boost prices for historic sports memorabilia, according to Heritage Auctions. The company says last week’s auction that closed over a two-night period generated over $11 million in winning bids, some of it spent by new buyers. In all, 17 lots commanded prices in excess of $100,000, led by a $2.58 million result for a 1937 Lou Gehrig Yankees … [Read more...]
Vintage Pack Facts: 1959 Topps Football
Sixty years ago, Topps was preparing to ship the fourth edition of its NFL trading cards to wholesalers and retailers across the country. There would be two series and 176 cards issued before the season ended, the largest football card set ever made. This week's edition of Vintage Pack Facts is focused on 1959 Topps football. Having gold with a red and … [Read more...]
Vintage Game Jerseys Among Top Sellers at REA
Three 1960s-era game jerseys from former sports icons combined to sell for $240,000 in Robert Edward Auctions' Summer catalog sale Sunday night. It was REA's first Summer Auction after the company announced a move from two to three major catalog sales per year. A 1969 Ernie Banks pinstriped Chicago Cubs home jersey rated 9.5 by MEARS led the way at $99,000. … [Read more...]
Altered Cards Update: Pre-War HOFers Impacted
Some more notes on recent developments and a few observations surrounding the revelation of altered cards.... *A group of pre-War cards with evidence of "cleaning" and perhaps other alterations has emerged through the research of collectors who've been looking into the issue for the last several months. Among them: a 1921 Exhibit Babe Ruth (the first Exhibit card … [Read more...]
2019 Panini Impeccable Preview
We'll know a little more about this year's NFL rookie class when 2019 Panini Impeccable football arrives in hobby shops and online. They're not the only focus of the product, though. In fact, past greats will play a big role in the content. Each one pack box of Impeccable will contain eight cards, five of which will contain autographs. The other three … [Read more...]
Lou Gehrig Jersey Sells for Record $2.58 Million
A 1937 Lou Gehrig road flannel has become the highest priced game worn jersey worn by someone other than Babe Ruth. Heritage Auctions sold the gray button-down jersey for $2.58 million in the first part of its Summer Platinum Night Auction Saturday night. First sold privately last year, the jersey originally belonged to a family that had received it as a gift … [Read more...]
Afterthought No More: Aristides Aquino Cards Among Hobby’s Hottest
If you pulled his autographed card from a pack five years ago, you probably didn't scream in excitement. He was still a young prospect but there were other names that were getting far more attention. Even if you ran across one of them while killing time during the All-Star break, you probably would have sold it...if only someone would ask. Aristides? … [Read more...]
Unused Tickets from Super Bowl I Surface After 52 Years; Now at Auction
They could just as easily have been discarded. Tickets to a football game that had already been played? Why keep them? Thankfully, Homer Hall apparently recognized the significance of the first “AFL-NFL World Championship Game” and kept the twin ducats even though he couldn’t make it to Los Angeles. Working for Oregon congressman Al Ullman and living in … [Read more...]
“Ode to the 60’s” Sports Photography Auction Underway
A large, single-owner collection of sports photographs, mostly centered in the early 1960s, is on the auction block for the first time. Pennsylvania-based Birmingham Auctioneers is offering the photos in individual lots. There are over 350 images in the online catalog, including original wire photos from the Associated Press and United Press International, Type 1 press … [Read more...]
