In the sports memorabilia industry, 2012 was the “Year of the Find”. Difficult as it may be to believe, there were still collections of old baseball cards and other valuable stuff sitting in attics and closets around the country. The greatest find wasn't much of a contest. Stacks of minty old cards from 1910 sitting in an Ohio attic for more than a century? It doesn't get … [Read more...]
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Auction Houses Roll With the Changes
Over the last 10-15 years, no element of the sports collecting hobby has grown more than the auction business. Auctions have always existed in the hobby. Pick up a 35-year-old hobby publication and you'll see private collectors and dealers running mini auctions in the pages of hobby publications. However, sports memorabilia has now joined the ranks of fine art and antiques … [Read more...]
