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...]
Hoops Cards to Return in March
It's the set that gave us David Robinson's rookie cards (both of them); draft pick redemption cards and borderless photos that will take today's 30-somethings back to their childhood. Hoops brand cards are coming back, ready to launch in March as part of the Panini America NBA license. After more than a year of buildup that included special preview cards at last year’s NBA … [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...]
2010-11 The Cup: Collectors Willing to Roll Dice
Upper Deck's 2010-11 The Cup, the final hockey card product still tied to last season, hit store shelves late last month and again, collectors seem enamored with taking a shot at what might be inside. Box prices have risen from $300-325 to over $450, even though there is no guarantee what's inside will be worth that much. Collectors are willing to take a gamble that there … [Read more...]
Kyrie Irving Signs With Panini America
Panini America has signed an exclusive agreement with Kyrie Irving, the No. 1 overall pick of the Cleveland Cavaliers in Thursday night's 2011 NBA Draft. Despite having his first and only season at Duke cut short by a toe injury, the athletic point guard proved quite prolific in the 11 games he did play, averaging 17.5 points, 4.3 assists and 3.4 rebounds per game while … [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...]
2011 SAGE Hit High Series Blaster Box Break
Just a few weeks after the release of its first series, 2011 SAGE Hit High Series boxes have hit stores. SAGE offers the first cards of some of the projected top picks in the upcoming NFL Draft. Cards of Cam Newton, A.J. Green, Blaine Gabbert, Ryan Williams, Mikel LeShoure, J.J. Watt and many others can be found inside along with special cards of the top names from the low … [Read more...]