A PSA 7 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle sold on eBay this week via PWCC Auctions for $161,100. High-grade ’52 Mantle cards are now experiencing some wild price swings. Another PSA 7 sold for $227,050 in November via Heritage Auctions. Prior to those two sales, the last one had brought $46,250 in May of 2014—less than two years ago. The last three public sales of a PSA 6? … [Read more...]
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High-Grade 1910 Standard Caramel Cards Coming to Auction
Rare high-grade examples of the 1910 Standard Caramel (E93) set will be offered at auction later this month, when Mile High Card Company kicks off its next major auction. Headlined by the only PSA 9 specimens in existence of Ty Cobb, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson and Deacon Philippe, 17 of the 30 cards in the E93 series will presented individually for sale. Created in 1886 … [Read more...]
New TV Show Debut Includes Black Swamp Find Segment
The discovery of a long-forgotten stash of nearly 700 1910 E98 baseball cards that shook the hobby and made international headlines in 2012, is going back on stage Monday night. FOX Business Network (FBN) will debut Strange Inheritance, the new primetime story-driven reality series hosted by Jamie Colby, at 9:00 PM/ET. The first show includes a feature on the discovery of … [Read more...]
Hobby Pioneer’s Football Jersey Collection Up for Auction
While the name of John Kindler may be unfamiliar to all but the earliest football uniform collectors, the upcoming Heritage Signature Auction should shed some light on one of the best collections ever assembled. Auction Director Chris Ivy calls it “the most significant single owner assembly” ever presented at a public sports memorabilia auction. Here's the interesting part: … [Read more...]
Jeter’s Only All-Star Home Run Bat Joins Vintage Cards in Memory Lane Catalog
Memory Lane’s new I Own it Now catalog sale gets underway Thursday, highlighted by a signed and inscribed bat used by Derek Jeter to hit his only home run in All-Star Game competition.The familiar black P72 model is signed and inscribed in silver ink by the newly retired Yankees star. He used it to hit a homer for the victorious American League in July of 2001 at the new … [Read more...]
Original T206s, Colgans Chips Fall From Pittsburgh Home’s Rafters
Are there still decades-old baseball cards and other treasures hiding in America’s attics? Remarkably, the answer is yes—but at least some of them have just been found. It's not the 'Black Swamp Find' but this story is awfully cool. A Pittsburgh newspaper reporter refurbishing the old house he moved into ran across quite a find, although the monetary value won’t be … [Read more...]
Ali-Liston Gloves, Joe Jackson Bat Bring Combined $1.79 Million at Auction
The boxing gloves that Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) wore when he defeated Sonny Liston to win his first heavyweight title belt in 1964 sold for $836,500 on Saturday night as part of Heritage Auctions’ Sports Platinum Night Auction. The sale to an unidentified buyer took palce almost 50 years exactly from the day of the fight. The final price includes 19.5% Buyer’s … [Read more...]
Gehrig Signed Baseball, Rare Vintage Cards On Huggins & Scott Block Starting Monday
Huggins and Scott’s first Masterpiece Auction of 2014 begins on Monday February 3 with rare vintage baseball cards, high-end modern inserts, game-worn memorabilia and plenty of autographed material among the more than 680 lots up for grabs. The auction is headlined by a 1934-39 Lou Gehrig sweet-spot single-signed Official American League baseball and an E98 Cy Young … [Read more...]
Musial Collection Highlights’ Largest Catalog in Heritage History
Stan Musial, along with being “Baseball’s Perfect Knight,” and one of the greatest players to ever don a jersey, was many things: Devoted husband, father, autograph collector, harmonica player, origami enthusiast. The contents of The Stan Musial Collection, consigned by the Musial family, and offered by Heritage Auctions as the centerpiece of its Nov. 7-9 Sports Collectibles … [Read more...]
Rich Klein’s Ramblings: A Chat With Chris Ivy of Heritage Auctions
After a couple of years of writing about memories and my hobby life, we've been very fortunate in being able to expand Rich's Ramblings to new directions. The new series with COMC and completing set checklists is a really cool expansion of some of the work I did at Beckett back in the day and another expansion will be to do more in-depth features on leading hobby people. For no … [Read more...]
