A T206 Ty Cobb "Bat Off Shoulder" card with a Uzit Tobacco back sold for $120,000 late Sunday night, as Robert Edward Auctions put the wraps on the sale of one late collector's expansive T206 set. Graded SGC 4, the "Bat Off Shouler" is the only pose of Cobb in the T206 set that was printed with an Uzit advertising back. Only a small number of copies … [Read more...]
Notes: Kid’s 2004 LeBron Pull Now Worth a Small Fortune; New ’51 Topps-Style Set; Uzit Cobb a Hit
A Christmas gift from 16 years ago is about to turn into a seven-figure windfall for one sports memorabilia auction consignor. “Chris” pulled the LeBron James 1/1 Rookie Logoman card from 2003-04 Upper Deck SP Game Used Basketball on Christmas morning 2004. Not long after, he took it to a local card show where someone offered him $1,700 for it. He turned it down and stuck … [Read more...]
Long-Time Collector’s T206 Set Gets Solo Auction Spotlight
Forty-eight years after one collector had a chance encounter with some tobacco cards at an antique shop in Virginia, his set of T206 cards is the star of its own auction. On Thursday, Robert Edward Auctions unveiled the 522-card set of Paul “Jack” Pollard in a special standalone auction running through January 17. The set includes every card except for the famed … [Read more...]
Long-Time Private Baseball Collection Coming to Auction
A one-owner private collection featuring historic baseball memorabilia will reach the auction block for the first time this December. Hunt Auctions is teaming up with Christie’s New York to sell the 25-year collection of high-grade and rare baseball cards, autographs, historic game-used items and other memorabilia. “Home Plate: A Private Collection of Important … [Read more...]
Ty Cobb Bat Given to Joe Sewell, Signed T206 Card from 1940s TTM Request Up for Bids
Thirty-one lots representing one of baseball’s greatest players are up for grabs in Heritage Auctions’ Summer Platinum Night catalog, including a 1920s era game-used bat Ty Cobb once gave to a fellow Hall of Famer. The battle-scarred signature model Hillerich & Bradsby carries a PSA/DNA GU 10 rating, along with the grip tape that Cobb … [Read more...]
Hottest Ty Cobb Baseball Card Auctions on eBay
The fans who watched him in his prime are long gone from this earth but no one needs eye witnesses or video to understand why the market for Ty Cobb baseball cards remains one of the hottest sports collectible markets. Cobb's greatness on the field and in the record books has transcended generations. From the early 20th century through the end of his playing career a … [Read more...]
Scoresheet from Wilt’s 100-Point Game, Big O’s Olympic Memorabilia Pace SCP Sale
A signed score sheet from Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point game in 1962 sold for $214,579 early Sunday morning as SCP Auctions wrapped up its Spring Auction. Consigned by a friend of the late Toby DeLuca, who kept score for Philadelphia Warriors radio announcer Bill Campbell, the sheet chronicled Chamberlain's still unsurpassed scoring night from a game against the New York … [Read more...]
REA’s Fall Auction on Fox Business News
Viewers of Fox Business News got a look at some of the items in the current Robert Edward Auctions catalog on Monday morning. REA's Brian Dwyer offered a show and tell of some of the big ticket pieces in the auction, which opened October 5 and runs through the 28th including a T206 Cobb with Cobb Tobacco back; a high-grade Babe Ruth-Lou Gehrig signed baseball, an unopened … [Read more...]
T206 Plank, High-Grade Cobb, Ruth Ball Among Mile High Highlights
Mile High Card Company went home from the National Sports Collectors Convention with nearly $1 million in consignments. Now, some of those high-end cards and memorabilia items are going to be up for grabs. The company will open its next major catalog auction on Friday, highlighted by a rare member of the T206 “Big Four” and one of the best known 1967 Topps sets in … [Read more...]
Ruth Rookie, High Grade T206 Cobb, Signed Mantle Rookie Headline Memory Lane Auction
Hundreds of vintage single cards and sets, autographs from baseball’s biggest icons and rare photographs are among the items in Memory Lane’s Summer Auction, set to launch July 28. One of the hobby’s hottest rarities, a 1916 M101-5 Babe Ruth blank back rookie card, will lead off the catalog. Rated in Fair condition, the card will open with a $25,000 minimum bid. … [Read more...]