Law enforcement officers in Louisiana are looking for two dozen stolen LSU and SEC championship rings stolen late last year from a home near Baton Rouge. The Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office is seeking assistance from the public for information leading to an arrest in the case. The total value of the rings is over $50,000. Each of the championship rings, designed for a … [Read more...]
MLB.com Profiles Teenage Collector/Negro League Historian
You might remember our story last year that hooked us up with the Boston Globe's piece on high school student Cam Perron from Arlington, Mass., a huge baseball fan and collector. He's different than most, though. Perron has developed a strong and sincere interest in the Negro Leagues, especially players who spent time there but never got any recognition. He wrote for … [Read more...]
Upstate New York Man Charged With Possessing Stolen Card Collection
Police in Canandaigua, N.Y., think they've solved a burglary case involving $75,000 worth of sports cards. Jason C. Howell, 33, of Gates was charged with second-degree criminal possession of stolen property, a class C felony, on Friday, after police say he sold the collection of vintage cards to a collector in the area. Detectives believe the obtained them as a result of … [Read more...]
Legendary Hall of Fame Artist Dick Perez To Offer Original Paintings at REA
Dick Perez, who is widely recognized as professional baseball’s leading artist, has teamed with Robert Edward Auctions to oversee the sale of 185 of his original Hall of Fame artworks. Nearly all were featured in Perez’s award-winning book The Immortals: An Art Collection of Baseball’s Best. The paintings will be sold in REA’s 2012 catalog auction via 28 lots that correspond … [Read more...]
NFL 9/11 Auction Gets Out of the Gate
The NFL's special auction to raise money for 9/11 charities is underway, but so far it's just a trickle of items from the opening weekend games. The league has launched the event on its auction platform with a few big name jerseys as headliners. Eli Manning's white road jersey from their 28-14 loss to Washington Sunday afternoon had generated 41 bids as of late Wednesday … [Read more...]
Pitney Bowes Offers No Software, Online Postage
Those who sell via eBay or other online portals have another option for slapping postage on shipping labels. Pitney Bowes Inc. has launched pbSmartPostage, the industry’s first mailing and shipping service that uses cloud technology to enable businesses to apply postage directly from any PC with an Internet connection. The company says businesses with smaller volume … [Read more...]