Five trading cards, three featuring NBA superstars, sold for over $1 million each on the first night of Goldin Auctions’ latest major catalog sale. A 2006-07 Topps Chrome Kobe Bryant rookie card graded BGS 10 (black label) netted $1,795,000, a record price for any Bryant card sold at public auction. It's one of only two ever rated at that level by Beckett. A … [Read more...]
More People, More Tech, More Space: Nat Turner Outlines Plans for PSA
Spending time at his parents’ house in North Carolina last year as COVID-19 put the clamps on normalcy, Nat Turner was pondering his next move. The co-founder and CEO of Flatiron Health kept coming back to the hobby that occupied his newly expanded down time. “I was kind of thinking about what’s next and thought ‘how cool would it be to do something with cards?’” A few … [Read more...]
Lucky 11 – Lionel Messi’s Rookie Cards
Writing about Lionel Messi is something of an absurdist exercise. He is the most revered and respected player in the world’s most popular sport. His is an ungodly combination of vision and situational awareness, obscene ball control while dribbling, inch-perfect passing, lethal finishing ability and physical toughness. Messi is the platonic ideal of a superstar. (Full … [Read more...]
Jackie Baseball Card Photo Pushes Heritage 2-Day Tally Past $32 Million
Heritage Auctions wrapped up its two-day Winter Platinum Night Auction early Monday, with several more lots reaching six-figure prices including a 1940s photo of Jackie Robinson that netted $204,000. In all, the two-day event resulted in sales of $32.7 million, the latest in a series of eight-figure auctions in a booming market for high-end sports cards and … [Read more...]
Vintage Card Records Obliterated in Heritage Auction
A T206 Honus Wagner owned by the late Joe Garagiola sold for just over $2.5 million early Sunday morning at Heritage Auctions, establishing yet another new record for the world's most famous baseball card. The card, graded Authentic, was acquired by Garagiola in trade for his final big league uniform and other items. The price smashed the previous record for an 'A' … [Read more...]
LeBron Chrome Rookie Refractor is First Card Graded by CSG
Certified Sports Guaranty is now actively grading its first submissions of cards. The hobby's newest grading and authentication firm--a division of Certified Collectibles Group--recently began accepting submissions and announced Thursday that it gave the designation of "first card graded" to a 2003-04 Topps Chrome Refractor LeBron James. The card has been among the … [Read more...]
Collectors Universe Deal Complete; New Investors Include Collectors, Athletes
An investor group that includes not only wealthy businessmen but current and former professional athletes has completed its purchase of PSA’s parent company and installed one of its own as Executive Chairman of the company’s board of directors. Collectors Universe announced Monday that it had completed the $853 million deal that turns the company from public to … [Read more...]
MeiGray Auctions Offers Tracking Pucks Used by NHL
Several sports have successfully implemented data and analytics into the professional realm, utilizing tools to measure intricacies such as spin rate, exit velocity, player speed and even fatigue levels. The NHL attempted a similar experiment for their 2021 regular season, geared towards gathering similar insights that would aid player evaluation in a data-driven world. The … [Read more...]
CSG Now Open for Grading Submissions
Seven months after announcing its intention to compete in the grading and authentication market for sports cards, Certified Collectibles Group announced Tuesday it was accepting submissions. CCG, a well respected grader of coins, paper money, comic books, magazines and concert posters, is launching the new service under the Certified Sports Guaranty (CSG) brand. The … [Read more...]
Record Price for Jordan Sticker in Goldin’s 1st Monthly Auction
One of 119 copies of Michael Jordan’s 1986-87 Fleer Stickers graded PSA 10 sold for over $234,000 as Goldin Auctions closed out its first Monthly Trading Card Auction. The price broke a record for the grade established just a week earlier when another sold for $200,100 through PWCC Marketplace Auctions. Fewer than one percent of the more than 13,000 Jordan rookie … [Read more...]