A forgotten cache of unopened boxes and packs of decades-old baseball, football and basketball cards turned turned into a high six-figure windfall for a Tennessee-based consignor early Friday morning as Mile High Card Company's auction came to a close. As we first reported last month, the group was headlined by a one-of-a-kind partial box of 19 packs of 1948 … [Read more...]
Top Banner 486X60
Huge High-Grade 1950s Find Includes Crazy Haul of HOFers
It's the kind of find that will make a vintage card collector drool. Someone inherits a stash of 1950s baseball cards but doesn’t want them. You can tell they came from the original collection of a kid from the 1950s, because even the superstar cards like Ted Williams have rubber bands bundled around them. Dealers buy 1950s era cards from the public on a regular basis … [Read more...]
Notes: Who’s Stealing Sports Awards? Wulkan Joins Pawn Stars; Buying Trip Season
They are unique items—one of a kind and virtually unsellable in the open market. Recent thefts of valuable sports memorabilia including Yogi Berra’s World Series rings, Roger Maris’ MVP trophy and Hickock Belt, some pricey boxing championship belts and even the 1903 Belmont Stakes trophy haven’t been solved. The thefts aren’t taking place in one area and the items … [Read more...]
Partial Box of 1948 Bowman Baseball Discovered; Set for Auction
What appears to be the only surviving partial box of 1948 Bowman baseball packs has been discovered and consigned to Mile High Card Company’s June Auction. The ’48 Bowman packs are the headliner in a one-owner collection that certainly stands among one of the most significant finds of unopened material ever offered. Mile High President and CEO Brian Drent … [Read more...]
Hoping for the Next Big ‘Walk In’
In the 1970s and 80s, sports card dealers and avid collectors would rent hotel rooms across the country, placing local newspaper ads offering to buy sports cards and collectibles. It was an era when the concept of sports stuff being worth money was still fairly new. With the internet, research is much easier and finding great collections is much harder. But that … [Read more...]
Desk Surrenders Century-Old Baseball Cards
As trading cards go, the 1912 Hassan Triple Folders are unique. Long, rectangular pieces of art, they are actually three cards in one, with colorful T205-like player portraits on each end and a black-and-white action photograph in the middle. Perforations allowed for separating them but collectors have long preferred they remain in one piece. Their age, dimensions and those … [Read more...]
Million Dollar Find in a Paper Bag
The population of one of the rarest baseball cards in the world has grown by seven after an amazing discovery in the rural South. Only about 15 of the rare 1909-1911 T206 Ty Cobb variation, distributed only in tins of the short-lived Ty Cobb Tobacco product, were known to exist until a family began going through the belongings of a family’s deceased great-grandfather. While … [Read more...]
Notes: Fanatics’ Churchill Deal; Old Baseball Stuff Found; Graphers Miffed
Churchill Downs has reached a multi-year agreement with Fanatics to exclusively operate both online and on-site retail for the Kentucky Derby race weekend, starting with the 2016 event. Fanatics, which holds several sports card shows around the country each year and has exclusive autograph deals with several star athletes, will aim to increase sales by adding additional … [Read more...]
Landing Deals Close to Home Can Be Profitable
Sports card collecting and dealing often go hand in hand. From an early age, our cardboard obsession has taught us to place a value on certain pieces, and then trade them for something that we would rather have. For many, collecting has served as a gateway drug to dealing in cards. After a ten year hiatus from the hobby, I got back into it for the love of it all. Before I … [Read more...]
Big Tobacco Card Find Lights Up New York Shop
It’s the type of find collectors and dealers always hope is on the other end of the phone, but rarely is. Over 270 century-old sports and non-sports cards, owned by members of one family since the early 1900s, are about to enter the hobby for the first time after they were purchased by an east coast hobby shop. American Legends in Scarsdale, NY, landed the remarkable … [Read more...]
