Sandwiched between its most recent monthly trading card auction and its next major catalog sale, Heritage Auctions is bringing out a catalog full of nothing but high-grade cards. The company's latest Set Registry Auction has a limited scope, but if you're collecting cards from the sets that are included, you'll be hard pressed to find anything better. The catalog, … [Read more...]
Notes: ’59 Cello Box Auction; $1 Million LeBron; 11,000 Sosa Rookie Cards; Brady’s 1st Bucs Card
An unopened box of 1959 Topps 4th series baseball is up for grabs this month. The 36-pack box could have multiple cards of Hall of Famers Ernie Banks, Robin Roberts, Al Kaline, Sparky Anderson and Hoyt Wilhelm inside. The fourth series in the 1959 baseball set covers card Nos. 265 to 352 in the 572-card set. Heritage Auctions has the box in its current Trading Card … [Read more...]
1959 Bazooka Baseball Pennants Originated with Topps Wrapper Offer
Topps tried to keep kids engaged with their brand as often as possible and in the spring and summer of 1959, it came by way of an enticing offer on the side panel of the company's baseball wrappers. Just about every youngster whose parents weren't all that strict when it came to decor had a hard time resisting the pitch. Grab a few pieces of the … [Read more...]
Baseball Card Coverage from 60 Years Ago Reveals Interesting Info on Market
By popular demand, here are a few more nuggets we dug up over the weekend from coverage of the hobby decades ago. In 1959, Topps wax putting 250 million baseball cards and 70 million football on the market, mostly through penny and nickel wax packs. Cello packs were decent sellers, which proved to company officials that in many cases, it wasn't the gum that was the … [Read more...]
Vintage Pack Facts: 1959 Topps Baseball
If you were a youngster setting out to collect the 1959 Topps baseball set, you faced a huge task. While you may not have realized it until much later in the year, the company had just created its largest set ever at 572 cards spread across seven series. Unless you were able to save a lot of money and buy boxes--one series at a time--it was quite an … [Read more...]
Salvaged by Dad in ’64, 1950s Cello Boxes Finally Sold
Sam Droganes’ business pedigree includes confectionaries and fireworks. And after Heritage Auctions’ Fall Sports Catalog Auction ended Friday night, the Kentucky businessman had scored a sweet five-figure profit worth celebrating. Three boxes of 1950s Topps cards consigend by Droganes, 53, in the two-day auction, including 36 unopened cello packs from the fourth series … [Read more...]
Vintage Set Break of the Week: 1959 Topps
To most collectors, the 1959 Topps set was an upgrade in terms of design from the 1958 issue. The lower case font was definitely different and so were the round pictures surrounded by bold-colored backgrounds. Mickey Mantle's card was in the first series, meaning kids didn't have to wait long to pull the popular slugger's card from packs. Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Gibson's … [Read more...]
1959 Topps Baseball Set Took Collectors Through the Porthole
Though every year witnesses events that change the world and make us gape in awe, some are more dramatic than others. By the time 1959 faded into a new decade, America had gained two new states, Fidel Castro had brought red power to Cuba, and the New York Yankees had slid all the way to third place in the American League. Along the way, the 1959 Topps baseball … [Read more...]