One of the three 1915 Cracker Jack Joe Jackson cards graded 9 by PSA sold for a record-setting $504,000 in Heritage Auctions' Spring Trading Card sale late last week. Heritage had sold another for $432,000 in 2017. That wasn't the only six-figure card in the auction, though. Seven lots hit that mark in all. Seventeen cards sold for $50,000 or more during the … [Read more...]
Stellar Collection of U.S. Caramel Cards Coming to Auction
While kids were digging the new bubble gum cards from Goudey, Boston-based U.S. Caramel was competing with its neighbors for kids' pennies. The company produced a 32-card set of sports stars that was distributed with its products. Later this month, a nearly complete grouping of the best known examples from the 1932 U.S. Caramel set will hit the auction … [Read more...]
Value of The Top 20 Baseball Cards in 1989 Will Have You Drooling
If you had money to invest 30 years ago, you could have put it in any number of places, depending on your willingness to take on a risk or two. The stock market. Real estate. Precious metals. You may have been the subject of much derision if you had opted to put at least some of it in baseball cards, but it wouldn’t have been a bad idea, as long as it wasn't 1989 … [Read more...]
Rare Weil Baking Babe Ruth Card Brings Big Price
One of a small number of 1916 Babe Ruth rookie cards with Weil Baking Company advertising on the back topped the sales list in Memory Lane Inc.’s recently completed I Own It Now catalog. One of the rarest variations of the familiar Ruth card issued through numerous sponsors 100 years ago, the EX graded example sold within minutes of the sale’s opening last week for a price … [Read more...]
Hottest Babe Ruth Cards for Sale on eBay
Babe Ruth's big league debut on July 11, 1914 came just after what is now the rarest, perhaps most sought after baseball card ever made: the 1914 Baltimore News Ruth promo card, which pictures him in the final days of his minor league career. You won't find it among the hottest Babe Ruth cards for sale on eBay. Most of the time, on the rare occasions … [Read more...]
Pre-War Rarities Top Goodwin Auction
It was a case of "the older the better" early Saturday morning as Goodwin & Company's latest Masterpieces and Uncommon Common auction came to a close. Numerous cards dating back 100 years or more brought the biggest prices including a rare 19th century cabinet card and a possibly one-of-a-kind version of a 1910 Ty Cobb issue. At the top of the bidding for the St. … [Read more...]