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...]
Georgia Sock Drawer Held Hobby’s Latest Big Find
Lucky 7 Find, meet Match Box Find. Another copy of the T206 Ty Cobb with Cobb Tobacco back, one of sports collecting’s rarest baseball cards has been uncovered. Freshly authenticated and graded by PSA, the century-old rarity was found by a Georgia family while cleaning out their late father’s home. Humbly tucked in a match box that was stored in a sock … [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...]
Knievel, Korbut, Cards All Part of Big Heritage Sale
Items from the personal collections of 1970s sports icons Evel Knievel and Olga Korbut will be among the lots going under the hammer at Heritage Auctions later this month in an event expected to soar past $10 million. The auction, which will close Feb. 25-26 in “Extended Bidding” format – meaning the bidding will stay open at least for another 30 minutes after any … [Read more...]
REA to Auction Cobb Card from Lucky 7 Find
One of the seven Ty Cobb Tobacco cards from the Lucky 7 Find earlier this year is going on the auction block. Robert Edward Auctions’ fall catalog includes the PSA 1.5 example that was part of a jaw-dropping hoard of seven cards found in a paper bag during a South Carolina house cleaning project last winter. It's the first of the seven cards to be offered in an auction … [Read more...]
PSA Plans Autograph Giveaways for 25th Anniversary
If you're headed to the National Sports Collectors Convention next month--or even if you're not--you'll have a chance to win some pretty valuable autographed items in a special 25th anniversary contest being held by PSA and PSA/DNA. Along with several other promotions, the company is giving away autographs from Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle and Derek Jeter during the … [Read more...]
Highest Graded Cobb Back from Lucky 7 Find Sold
The highest graded card in the ‘Lucky 7 Find’ of T206 Cobb backs has been sold, leaving just three of the seven cards left. PSA President Joe Orlando says the VG+ (4.5) copy was claimed over the weekend. Sources tell SC Daily a private collector purchased the card for between $1 million and $2 million. Two of the three cards graded 2.5 by PSA and another rated 1.5 were … [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 … [Read more...]
Ramblings: Hunt for Bigfoot Always Fun
Recently, I was involved in an email discussion with Stephen Laroche, who is the Beckett Hockey editor and we were discussing a couple of the “Bigfoot” Hockey cards which may or may not even exist. But did you know that a few baseball cards have been rumored to exist for about 40 years? And more interestingly, some of them eventually did surface. As usual this is far … [Read more...]