Arkansas sports memorabilia dealer and photo archivist John Rogers, who was sentenced to 12 years in prison for fraud last December, is serving his prison sentence not far from home. Rogers is housed at the low security federal correctional institution in Forrest City, AR. He won’t be eligible for release until April of 2028. Federal prosecutors say the 45-year-old … [Read more...]
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Picker’s Rare Find: T206 Broad Leaf Ty Cobb to Enter Market
A newly discovered T206 Ty Cobb with an ultra-rare Broad Leaf 460 advertising back has been authenticated and will be offered for sale in Robert Edward Auctions’ Spring Catalog. Found some time ago along with some other tobacco-related paper items and advertising by an antique/junk hunter in western New York who collects old telephones, the card is expected to bring $50,000 … [Read more...]
Despite Strong Population, T206 Prices Keep Rising
The T206 set is more than 100 years old and in terms of pre-war cards, is the most collected issue of all time. There are many reasons for that, of course. First, many of the cards are, by and large, affordable - especially in low-grade condition, where commons can be found for as little as $10. The set also is home to many of the sport's biggest early 20th century names … [Read more...]
Memory Lane to Offer Virtually Complete T206 Master Set Break in Special Auction
One of the finest T206 (1909-1911) baseball card sets ever offered will be broken up and sold by Memory Lane Inc. in a special catalog auction set to begin April 22. Pieced together by an avid collector over more than ten years, the T206 Set Break Auction includes three of the set’s four extreme rarities: a PSA 2 (Good) Honus Wagner, a PSA 4 (VG-EX) Eddie Plank and a … [Read more...]
A Dozen Ways To Collect The T206 White Border Set
More than 100 years after its creation, the 1909-11 T206 White Border set continues to fascinate collectors. For as many collectors intrigued by the task of tackling 'The Monster', though, probably as many are turned away at the impossibility of doing so. For most collectors, piecing together an entire 524-card set is out of the question. However, there are other ways to … [Read more...]
Cobb Backs Get New Values as 3rd Card Sells
Of the seven cards in the “Lucky 7” find of T206 Ty Cobb backs announced last week, four remain. The cards, discovered last month while family members were cleaning up the contents of an old house in the southeastern part of the country, became a national story. Sent to PSA for grading and authentication, they were assigned grades ranging from 1.5 to 4.5 with four of the … [Read more...]
Notes: Vintage Sales and a Find; Cobb Cards Featured; Ruth Auction
A PSA 7 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle sold on eBay this week via PWCC Auctions for $161,100. High-grade ’52 Mantle cards are now experiencing some wild price swings. Another PSA 7 sold for $227,050 in November via Heritage Auctions. Prior to those two sales, the last one had brought $46,250 in May of 2014—less than two years ago. The last three public sales of a PSA 6? … [Read more...]
2 of Rare Cobb Cards Found in Bag Sold
Rick Snyder has been a sports card dealer for a long time. He’s bought and sold plenty of expensive cards. He’s never experienced anything quite like this. “Oh my gosh. My phone has been blowing up,” the owner of South Carolina-based MINT State said Thursday morning, about 12 hours after word of his involvement in one of the hobby’s great all-time finds had … [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...]
Over 3,500 T206 Cards Including Wagner Coming to Auction
A huge hoard of more than 3,500 T206 baseball cards including the famed Honus Wagner card is coming to auction this fall. SCP Auctions’ David Kohler and Dan Imler secured them from a private collector living in the northeast last week. The previously ungraded Wagner was encapsulated by PSA with a grade of Poor (1) on site at the National Sports Collectors Convention in … [Read more...]
