Huggins & Scott opens its fall auction today with over 1,000 lots up for bid. The company acquired several consignments at the recent National Sports Collectors Convention and through its network of nationwide field reps. The marquee collectibles in the auction include the only graded example of the 1968 Topps 3-D Brooks Robinson prototype, Ed Lopat’s 1949 New York … [Read more...]
2011 Topps Football Offers Familiar Concepts
by Rich Klein Just as its base product is the one just about every collector looks forward to in terms of keeping the long-term collecting habit going, the "base" 2011 Topps Football product is similar in that this kicks off the collecting season. With the lockout coming to an end, the timing couldn’t have been better for Topps to roll out its long-running set. Topps has … [Read more...]
1960 Topps Football Set Affordable–Even in Graded Form
They're not the prettiest cards in the world, but football in the early 1960s was a tough, gritty game. The league was still relatively small. There was no Monday Night Football. The NFL had but one trading card contract and for the fifth consecutive year, Topps dutifully dished out a set of 132 players. A small group of superstars lived pretty well but a lot of players … [Read more...]