Spread out over four separate sessions closing on successive nights and packing over 3,700 lots, Heritage Auctions’ 2020 Fall Collectibles Auction was the biggest in company history. It turned out to also be the biggest money maker in sports collecting history. The auction, with individual sessions ending Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings, realized over … [Read more...]
Dreier Collection Consigned to Auction
Legendary Auctions has been selected to handle the sale of the sports cards and sports memorabilia items in the celebrated, multi-million-dollar Dreier Collection. Owned by a father/son team in Santa Barbara, California, the collection is actually a private museum and includes some of the most rare and high grade sports cards and memorabilia known to exist, many of them one of … [Read more...]
Ramblings: Parsippany Card Shows and Trivia With Barry Halper
by Rich Klein The best part about these ramblings is I think of great leads all week, but when I sit down at the computer to write, the story always ends up going in a different direction than I planned. Last week, I had planned to write a tribute to my father in honor of what would have been his 91st birthday on October 29, but the little matter of World Series tickets and … [Read more...]
Editor’s Blog: Gehrig’s Last Glove…Well Maybe Not; Ohio State Memorabilia Scandal
It was one of the most hotly contested items in the famous Barry Halper baseball collection auction. Now, though, the claim that a glove purported to be the last one ever used by Lou Gehrig is being called into question. A report by Dave Gob of MEARS, the Milwaukee-based authenticator, indicates that it wasn't possible for the glove sold in the auction to be the same one … [Read more...]
1938 Lou Gehrig Jersey Tops REA Auction
A 1938 Lou Gehrig jersey sold for $329,000 at the annual blockbuster event conducted online and by phone by Robert Edward Auctions. Bidding concluded early Sunday morning with the auction generating total proceeds of $9.5 million. A total of 25,638 bids were placed and all but two of the 1745 lots were sold to 648 different bidders. 317 different consignors contributed to … [Read more...]
1914 World Series Ring May Bust Myth
The 1914 Boston Braves were a team for the ages. Trailing the first place New York Giants by 11 games on July 18, the team that would be dubbed the "Miracle Braves" went on a tear. They won 60 of their last 76 games to win the pennant, then disposed of the heavily favored Philadelphia Athletics in the World Series. Now, a relic from that legendary team is giving collectors … [Read more...]
Editor’s Blog: Teen Dealer, Panini Blog, Halper
You might remember our story last year about a St. Louis area teenager who started his own autograph business. John Schenk runs Show Me State Signatures. He started small, but a year later he's still at it and has now hosted signing sessions with a few Hall of Famers like Stan Musial, Lou Brock, Marty Marion, Brooks Robinson and other former big leaguers. Inspired by … [Read more...]
Report Claims Joe Jackson Hall of Fame Jersey Isn’t Real
Major League Baseball purchased part of the collection of legendary collector Barry Halper in 1998 but a new report claims to prove one of the major items in that sale isn't authentic. After buying a number of pieces of historic baseball memorabilia, MLB gave a purported Joe Jackson White Sox jersey and other rare items to the Baseball Hall of Fame. However, a story by … [Read more...]
Wagner Proof Strip on Display; Will Be Sold
It was once a part of perhaps the best collection of baseball memorabilia ever assembled. A five-card proof strip of T206 cards--one that included a Honus Wagner--is back in the public eye and less than two months from another visit to the auction block. The strip once belonged to Barry Halper, the late and legendary collector, and was first sold publicly in 1999 when … [Read more...]
Wagner Card, Turkey Red Set Top REA Auction
It's over for another year. Robert Edward Auctions' annual spring sale came to a close in the wee hours of Sunday morning, with collectors chasing--among other historic baseball pieces--a T206 Honus Wagner card and one of the best 1911 T3 Turkey Red sets in existence. The Wagner card, graded poor-fair, sold for $282,000 including the company's buyer's premium while the … [Read more...]