By day, he helps keep the nation's air traffic moving in an orderly fashion. By night, he's one of more than two dozen consignment representatives for one of the sports memorabilia industry's top auction companies. Steve Phillips lives in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area and when a potential consignor who lives within driving distance wants to consider consigning his collection … [Read more...]
Top eBay Sellers Began as Rutgers Roomies
by Steve Manas To buy or not to buy? That was the question facing preteen Leighton Sheldon one 1985 afternoon as he stood before the baseball card vendor at the old Route 18 Flea Market in East Brunswick, N.J., eyeing a 1984 Topps Don Mattingly rookie card. Odds are the youngster couldn’t have guessed, when he ponied up the then-princely sum of $30 for the future … [Read more...]
Ex-SGC Rep Dwyer Opens New Online Auction House
Brian Dwyer, formerly in charge of Business Development for Sportscard Guaranty (SGC), is starting his own online auction company. Dwyer has launched Sterling Sports Auctions and will be conducting monthly sessions through the new website. Sterling will launch its first auction next month and at least for the moment, will be an online only portal, with fresh auctions taking … [Read more...]
1961 Post Cereal High Grade Find
They were printed on cardboard, shipped to grocery stores, shuffled into carts and wound up on the breakfast table of families who weren't really that concerned about the box itself. Only that it had cereal inside. Post's four-year early 1960s run of baseball cards has thus produced thousands of lower grade examples that have settled into collections across North … [Read more...]
T206 Collections Always a Welcome Consignment
A collection of 70 of the 76 Hall of Famers in the T206 baseball card set arrived at Just Collect's offices last week thanks to a long-time collector who has decided to liquidate and turn his attention to other investments. The New Jersey-based eBay consignment specialist is offering them one at a time on eBay over the next couple of weeks. "T206s are one of the most … [Read more...]
T6 Murad College Series Cards Hit Market
A group of century-old T6 Murad Tobacco premium cards hit eBay recently--a consignment of rare vintage premium cards being handled by New Jersey-based Just Collect, Inc. This rare set consists of 25 cards, each featuring a different American university. Each card measures 5” x 8” and is the oversized version of the far more common T51 set Murad College Series. The T6 … [Read more...]
Vintage Signed Baseball Collection Just Part of Ongoing Consignment Quest
Consignments are the lifeblood of every sports memorabilia auction company. While some may see the colorful auction catalogs as the focus of business, the reality is that those catalogs don't exist without a steady flow of phone calls and emails from those interested in liquidating their items. For New Jersey-based Just Collect Inc, there are no catalogs. There is, … [Read more...]
Hobby Changes Have Happened Fast
A born again collector who is now a consignment director for a major auction house talks about what's happened in collecting over the last 30 years. … [Read more...]