Two T206 Ty Cobb cards were among the pace-setters as Memory Lane wrapped up its Summer Rarities Auction early Sunday morning. One of eight PSA 8 graded Cobb Green Portrait cards netted $288,000 in the auction, while the hobby's highest graded Uzit advertising back (PSA 6) ended at $99,600 including the buyer's premium. Other pre-War sales included a PSA 8 T206 Cy Young … [Read more...]
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Fresh Card Find Includes 1916 Famous & Barr Ruth, Huge Pre-War Stash
They had been sitting in a box for decades. A small fortune in baseball cards, some collected over 100 years ago by a young Midwestern man who clearly loved baseball and the men who played it. He lived only 57 years and has been gone for 60, but the box remained as a sort of curious heirloom, appreciated by a family of sports lovers but tucked out of … [Read more...]
2nd Edition of T206 Book Earns Publishing Award
The second edition of The T206 Collection: The Players and Their Stories was recently awarded a gold medal at the 31st annual Independent Book Plublishers Association Benjamin Franklin Awards in Chicago. Originally published in 2010, the book’s second edition includes new photos of some of the hobby’s top T206 cards and additional content. Authors Tom and Ellen … [Read more...]
Top T206 Collection Nets Over $8 Million
The All-Time Number One T206 set on the PSA Registry is no more. Broken up and sold card-by-card in a special catalog sale through Heritage Auctions, the collection of 520 cards netted over $8.15 million when the final numbers were calculated Friday. The pre-auction estimate of just under $3.5 million itself was more than doubled. Every card in the … [Read more...]
New Mile High Auction Includes T206 Set Break
A set of T206 cards has been broken up and is being offered in Mile High Card Company’s July Extra Innings Auction, which launched on Monday. Set to run through July 18, the auction will include over 300 T206 lots of single cards and lots led by a Piedmont 150/25 Ty Cobb Green Background SGC 30 GOOD 2, with other notables including a Polar Bear Cobb Bat Off Shoulder SGC 40 … [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...]
Owner of “The Original” T206 Wagner Revealed as Auction Approaches
The baseball crazy youngsters who pestered smokers and caused a major uproar in 1909 upon the release of the American Tobacco Company’s trading cards knew it. Honus Wagner was a huge star but finding his picture was a pain in the Heinie. Little did they know their desires had been trumped by the Pittsburgh Pirates star’s insistence on being left out of what … [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...]
T206 Insider Website Launches
One of the hobby’s most devoted scholars of the T206 baseball card set has created a new research portal, universal set registry and marketplace for the most popular pre-War set. Scot Reader’s T206 Insider offers a variety of tools aimed at helping readers understand the true scarcity and value of certain cards in the set and register graded cards in one place, even if cards … [Read more...]
T206 Jumbo Wagner Returns to Auction Block This Fall
The hot market for vintage cards is pushing a higher end copy of the hobby’s most famous card back into the marketplace. Goldin Auctions will offer the T206 ‘Jumbo’ Honus Wagner card in an auction that will begin September 12. Graded PSA 5 (MC), the card is 1/16” larger in size than other T206 cards because it was improperly cut at the factory. "Serious collectors … [Read more...]
