Long-time collector Bruce Paynter, former president of the Chicagoland Sports Collectors Association and two-time host of the National Sports Collectors Convention passed away suddenly on Sunday. He was 67. Paynter’s shows at the Hillside Holiday Inn were among the hobby’s most popular events in the late 1970s and 80s, drawing collectors from around the Midwest and … [Read more...]
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Top 1933 Goudey Set Being Broken Up; Sold at Auction
The old gang is breaking up. A 1933 Goudey set that's enjoyed a run as one of the hobby's best has hit the auction block with each of the 240 cards being offered separately. The set is being presented in a special catalog through Heritage Auctions. Every card in the set currently being offered, including all four Babe Ruth cards, both Lou Gehrig cards and the rare … [Read more...]
Top 10 Selling Items of 2018 at Goldin Auctions
As the year winds down, we’re taking a look at the top-selling sports cards and memorabilia sold through major auction companies in 2018. The Babe still draws a crowd. He's the subject of a current best-selling book and still the number one attraction in the world of baseball memorabilia. Four of the top ten selling items at Goldin Auctions this year dated from … [Read more...]
The Wayback Collector: Fresh Finds Fuel Thoughts on 1933 Goudey Set
The Wayback Collector is a weekly look at important news in the hobby as it relates to pre-war and vintage collectibles. This week’s topic takes a brief look at the 1933 Goudey set's popularity in the wake of two significant finds. At some point, the baseball collecting world decided that the Big 3 in terms of collectible sets were T206, 1952 Topps, and 1933 Goudey. As far … [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...]
1933 Goudey Ruth Sets Record Pace in Goldin Auctions Event
The first PSA 9 1933 Goudey Babe Ruth sold for over $300,000 but that wasn’t the only record set in an auction that took place during the National Sports Collectors Convention in Cleveland. A Mickey Mantle Yankees cap, a Tom Brady jersey/uniform, a 1967 Roberto Clemente card, a 1979 Steeler Super Bowl ring, a football helmet and a 1914-15 Nap Lajoie bat … [Read more...]
Autographed Card Collection Coming to REA Includes Near Complete Goudey Set
One of the hobby’s top collections of autographed baseball cards is coming to auction this fall, one that includes all but 16 of the 240 cards in the 1933 Goudey set. Robert Edward Auctions announced Tuesday that it has acquired on consignment more than 300 signed cards, each authenticated and encapsulated by PSA/DNA, spanning the years 1887 to 1969. All cards within … [Read more...]
Historic Memorabilia; High End Cards Coming to Goldin’s Live, Catalog Events
Eli Manning's 2008 Super Bowl helmet; a Wayne Gretzky rookie season jersey; Jim Palmer's 1976 Cy Young Award, bats from Cap Anson and Babe Ruth; the Mike Singletary Collection and more than two dozen high-grade rookie cards will be on the auction block next month through Goldin Auctions. The company will hold an 89-lot live event at the Cleveland Airport … [Read more...]
3rd Best 1959 Topps Set Brings Over $300,000 in Mile High Auction
One of the hobby’s top 1959 Topps baseball card sets is on its way to a new home—for a whopper of a price. Mile High Card Company sold the third ranked set on the PSA Registry for $301,907 in its catalog auction early Friday morning. Four cards in the 572-card issue are graded 10; eight, including Mickey Mantle rated 8 and the other 560 cards in the set are graded PSA … [Read more...]
Jim Bottomley Collection Among Mile High Headliners
He left school at age 16 to support his family and wound up winning two World Series titles on his way to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Now, 85 items from the life and times of Depression-era slugger Jim Bottomley are coming to auction. Bottomley Bounty Mile High Card Company will offer one of Bottomley’s 1926 World Series bats (graded PSA/DNA GU 10), his 1931 World Series ring … [Read more...]
