One of the 99 2003-04 Upper Deck Exquisite LeBron James rookie cards sold for $2.4 million via Goldin Auctions Saturday night. Twenty-four bids were entered for the card, which is graded 9.5 by BGS with a 10 autograph grade. In 2020, Goldin sold another James RPA numbered to 99 with the identical grades for just over $1 million.
The second highest selling item in the auction was a 2007-08 Exquisite Dual Logoman Autographs Kevin Durant/Kobe Bryant Patch Card. The 1/1 PSA Authentic example netted $726,000.
A 2000 Bowman Chrome Refractor Tom Brady rookie graded PSA 10 sold for $498,000, a record price for the card.
A 2009-10 Panini Playoff National Treasures Steph Curry Rookie Patch Autograph (#22/99) graded BGS GEM MINT 9.5/10 brought $390,000.
One of the 20 2015-16 Upper Deck The Cup Connor McDavid Rookie Autograph Patch cards (# to 99) graded BGS 9.5/10 sold for a record $134,400. Just two years ago, the high price was just over $41,000.
Complete results are here.
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A 2000 Playoff Contenders Championship Ticket Tom Brady rookie card sold for $2.4 million late last week. It’s the highest price for any football card at public auction this year and is among the highest public sales for a trading card this year.
The price was $700,000 less than the last public auction for the same card, however, which took place via Lelands in June of last year.
The auction conducted by PWCC Marketplace offered 439 lots with total sales of nearly $20 million.
The Brady rookie wasn’t the only seven-figure sale in the auction. One of the five 2009 Bowman Chrome Red Refractor Mike Trout cards sold for $1,080,000—the second highest price for a Trout card. The BGS 9.5 example marked the second time a Trout card has crossed the million dollar mark.
Several individual player records fell in the auction. The $150,000 sale of a 1997 Metal Universe Precious Metal Gems Jerry Rice (PSA 6) topped Rice’s previous record – which was $125,655 for a PSA 10 copy of his 1986 Topps rookie issue – but it also becomes the first football card from the 1990s to sell in the six-figure range.
A Ken Griffey Jr. 1998 Upper Deck A Piece of Action 3 Ken Griffey Jr., numbered to 24 and graded BGS 9.5 sold for $84,000—breaking the previous record sale of a Griffey card by $28,799.
Complete results can be found here.
The owner of a popular Montreal hobby shop and his wife are dead and their son has been charged in the killing.
60-year-old Wayne Arnott, the manager of Blue Nose Collectibles, and 65-year-old Louise Boucher were found dead last Wednesday night. The couple’s son, Mitchell Arnott, has been charged with two counts of murder.
Bluenose specialized in sports cards and memorabilia but also carried other types of collectibles.
According to the Montreal Gazette, Michael Arnott was arrested after he went to a local hospital in bloody clothes. Hospital staff contacted police and Arnott was later arrested.
“It seems there was an altercation in the home that escalated,” a Montreal Police spokesperson told reporters. “We were later able to confirm it was an inter-family (altercation).”
Wayne Arnott’s father had opened the store many years ago.
“Wayne was usually wearing a hockey jersey of some kind and he was always blustering around the store,” said NHL.com columnist Dave Stubbs. “He was was ferociously proud of how it was ‘a beautiful mess,’ as I called it. The store was an absolute treasure for me and he was the heart and soul of the store.”
Global News TV reported from the store on Friday that customers and friends have been paying their respects since word of the killings spread.
A Pennsylvania man who scammed an Australian collector out of tens of thousands of dollars in basketball cards will spend time in jail.
Michael Benjamin, 37, was sentenced late last week on charges of Theft by Deception, Receiving Stolen Property and Retail Theft.
According to this story, the victim contacted local police after he didn’t receive some expensive cards he purchased via a Facebook group.
Benjamin has been ordered to pay $50,327 in restitution and will spend somewhere between six months and 3 ½ years in jail plus probation upon his release.
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