Part 4 of the sale featuring the best T206 baseball card collection ever pieced together will get underway later this month. Heritage Auctions will present the latest installment of the David Hall T206 Collection, with some of the scarcest examples from the hobby’s most popular and expansive pre-War set going on the block. Among the cards that will be up for grabs when … [Read more...]
Part III of David Hall T206 Collection Auction Includes Near Set of Sovereign Backs
The third installment of hobby pioneer David Hall’s legendary T206 collection is now on the auction block. The sale features a near-set of scarce “Sovereign” advertising backs as well as cards that were in packages of other lesser known brands and carry advertising backs that are considered scarce today. Over 500 cards are in the auction, including dozens of Hall … [Read more...]
Trimmed, Creased T206 Wagner Sells for $540,000
The market for T206 Honus Wagner cards is showing no sign of slowing after the results of a major auction of a set of cards from the hobby's most popular pre-War issue. Heritage Auctions offered the second in a series of auctions featuring cards from the David Hall Collection, highlighted by a Wagner graded Authentic/Altered. Despite trimmed borders and creasing, the … [Read more...]
High-Grade T206 Set, Plus Wagner, Now at Auction
Heritage Auctions has launched the second offering of The David Hall T206 Collection, featuring a set of the hobby’s most celebrated tobacco issue, including a low-grade example of the famed T206 Honus Wagner, a Ty Cobb with Cobb back and an example of the rare Eddie Plank card. Only the ultra-scarce Joe Doyle “NY Nat’l” error is missing from the … [Read more...]
Rare, High-Grade Ty Cobb Tobacco Tin up for Auction
The best known example of the tin that held Ty Cobb brand tobacco more than a century ago—and maybe one of the ultra-scarce T206 Cobb cards-- is on the auction block. The gold-topped tin, complete with the original tax stamp still attached, could sell for a six-figure price when bidding ends next month. The tin last sold in 2012 for over $88,000. … [Read more...]
Early Mantles, Rare Ruths, T206s Headline Heritage Sale
A huge auction of vintage and modern sports cards is open with some hobby heavyweights among the more than 2,000 listings. The post-war era’s most celebrated ballplayer will garner several of the highest prices once the final hammer falls at Heritage Auctions with three Mickey Mantle entries—1953 Topps, PSA Mint 9 (current bid $175,000 with an estimate of $300,000 or more), … [Read more...]
David Hall’s 5,000+ T206 Collection Being Sold in Several Parts
The hobby’s most complete master set of T206 cards is being broken up and sold at auction. The accumulation of more than 5,000 cards collected by David Hall, founder of Collector’s Universe, will be sold through Heritage Auctions in a series of sales running through 2019 and beyond. The first portion of the collection alone will span three auctions, held in July, September … [Read more...]
Notes: Foreign Hoops Buyers; CU’s Hall Fired; Most Watched Auctions; Giveaway News
Basketball cards may not rank at the top of the North American sports card pecking order but they’ve got one thing going for them that others don’t. While MLB and the NFL can say they have avid followers in other countries, there’s not much doubt that hoops’ appeal is much broader. The game is hugely popular in some of the world’s biggest nations and continues to … [Read more...]
A Taste of Hobby’s Top T206 Collection
It’s the greatest T206 baseball card collection ever assembled. With over 5,000 different player/back combinations out of 5,257 known, David Hall’s assemblage ranks as one of the hobby’s most remarkable achievements. Later this week, a few of the rarest cards in the $10 million collection will be on display at the Long Beach Expo. Hall, the President of … [Read more...]
Notes: White Plains Show; SGC’s New Club; Hall Recovering, Shop Opens in TN
Just a couple of weeks after the National, there’s another large card show in the New York/New Jersey area. The East Coast National show opened Thursday at the Westchester County Center in White Plains, NY. It runs through Sunday. Over 300 dealers are set up along with auction houses and the grading/authentication companies. Admission is $10. Autograph guests include … [Read more...]