If you collect vintage sports cards, filling your want list at the National Sports Collectors Convention is usually faster than buying on eBay. Name a set and there are likely at least a few dealers who have those cards in their inventory. Collectors from across the country are spending plenty of money this week. Some are filling sets. Others are buying in hopes … [Read more...]
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The Man Who Wrote the Book on Mickey Mantle Baseball Cards
Like millions of other kids, he started collecting baseball cards in the 1950s. Bill Wilen really got serious as an adult, focusing on Mickey Mantle. Over the years, he's acquired virtually every Mantle card issued from 1951-2000. Now, they're all up for auction. The retired Chicago area attorney is at the National Sports Collectors Convention, showing … [Read more...]
NM Ruth Rookie Card Fetches $552,000
A 1916 M101-5 Sporting News Babe Ruth rookie card graded PSA 7 (near mint) sold for $552,000 during the first of a three-day catalog sale conducted by Heritage Auctions last Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The card is one of the three 7s in PSA's Population Report (the company has graded only three as high as 8). The cards section led off the auction, with dozens … [Read more...]
Wagner, High-Grade Vintage Icons Push Memory Lane Auction to Record Total
One of only several dozen surviving examples of the world’s most famous baseball card was sold early Sunday morning when Memory Lane closed out its ‘Holy Grail’ Auction. The $600,000 price fetched for a PSA 2 Honus Wagner was just the beginning, though. When the final bids were entered in the early morning hours Sunday, the auction had generated over $5.2 million, … [Read more...]
High-Grade Icons, Vintage Packs Headline Memory Lane Spring Auction
Kids who found them inside packs they opened decades ago were excited. In 2017, the enthusiasm for the biggest names in baseball history hasn’t waned a bit and some pack-fresh classic cardboard is about to go on the auction block. Memory Lane’s upcoming Spring "Holy Grail" Auction includes some single cards that are expected to attract six-figure bids, a group of … [Read more...]
High-Grade Heroes Highlight Huge Memory Lane Winter Auction
Collectors might want to grab another log for the fire when they head for an easy chair to digest the 2016-17 Memory Lane Winter Rarities Auction. The catalog for the annual event, running December 23 through January 14, is a company record 256 pages long with over 1,300 lots of vintage and rare sports cards and memorabilia. The auction kicks off with one of the … [Read more...]
1952 Mantle Poised to Pass $1 Million
A 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle card graded 8.5 by PSA stands poised to become the hobby’s next million dollar card. One of only a dozen graded at NM/MT+ or higher, the card soared to $800,000 in the first few days of bidding at Heritage Auctions. With the 19.5% buyer’s premium, the price currently sits at $956,000 and the auction still has over three weeks to run. Two other … [Read more...]
Mint Musial; Bazooka Hockey Set Headline MHCC Auction
Mile High Card Company will offer a complete set of one of the rarest hockey card issues ever created when its Fall Auction opens next week; a complete 1971-72 Bazooka Hockey Panel set with each card in the set ranked as the highest ever graded. The Bazooka cards were only available for a brief period of time in Canada that season. A complete box featuring Hall of … [Read more...]
1988 Atlantic City National Drew Buyers for Mattingly, Mantle
The National Sports Collectors Convention opens four weeks from now, making its third ever stop in Atlantic City. The first was in 1988 when an estimated 50,000 collectors turned out just as the hobby’s boom era was beginning to escalate. The second stop came 15 years later when much of the focus for buying and selling had shifted online. A look back at some of the coverage … [Read more...]
Notes: Prices Still Soaring; Lelands’ Ali Auction; Collection Video
Not every 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle has been in a grading company holder for years. One ‘raw’ card was recently graded by PSA and had its origin in Alan “Mr. Mint” Rosen’s 1980s find. That card, graded NM 7, got its first taste of the auction market late last week, selling for $218,650 via Goodwin and Company. That same auction resulted in yet another record price for the … [Read more...]
