George H.W. Bush was president. Tiger Woods was playing in his first PGA Tour event--at age 16. Joe Gibbs and Marv Levy were your opposing Super Bowl coaches. It was 1992 and a young collector named Mark Rubin decided to open his own sports card and memorabilia shop. The name has changed since then, but Mark and his wife Donna are still buying and … [Read more...]
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Find Yields Highest Graded T205 Camnitz
A fresh-to-the-hobby stash of more than 270 pre-War baseball,boxing and non-sport cards we told you about in August has now been graded. The collection was acquired by American Legends, a long-time New York City area shop owned by Mark and Donna Rubin. The cards had been in the same family for more than a century, carefully preserved but never graded. Among the cards … [Read more...]
Big Tobacco Card Find Lights Up New York Shop
It’s the type of find collectors and dealers always hope is on the other end of the phone, but rarely is. Over 270 century-old sports and non-sports cards, owned by members of one family since the early 1900s, are about to enter the hobby for the first time after they were purchased by an east coast hobby shop. American Legends in Scarsdale, NY, landed the remarkable … [Read more...]
‘Untouched’ Vintage Non-Sport Collection Heads for Auction
The “Amity Island Collection,” one of the greatest untouched classic non-sport collections, is being offered for sale for the first time by American Legends. Meticulously assembled in the 1970s and 1980s by a well-known East Coast collector wishing to remain anonymous, this pedigree collection has sat undisturbed in boxes and binders for over 20 years. With more than 30 … [Read more...]
