There were thousands of items up for auction, but when the dust settled early Monday morning, Babe Ruth memorabilia once again rose to the top as Robert Edward Auctions closed out its fall catalog event. Six items sold for over $100,000 and four were Ruth-related, led by a high-grade early 1920s single-signed baseball which garnered $144,000. A circa-1927 ball signed … [Read more...]
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Notes: T206 Cobb Back Find; Mathis Talks ’52 Mantle Sale; Ohtani Atomic Refractor
Make way for another rare T206 Ty Cobb Back. Publicity generated by the 2016 Lucky 7 Find (that later became 8) of Cobb Tobacco back cards led one man who had inherited his father's old pre-War card collection to look a little closer in one of the albums where they were stored. Feeling confident, he had struck gold, he started reaching out in search of a buyer. … [Read more...]
Lucky 7 Find Plus One: Family Uncovers 8th Cobb Tobacco Card in Dusty Box
Here's one for the hobby history books. An eighth copy of the rare 1909-11 T206 Ty Cobb with Ty Cobb back baseball card has been located by the same family from a rural southern town that discovered “The Lucky 7 Find” of rare Cobb cards in 2016. Incredibly, exactly two years after the initial finding comes another Cobb specimen with its ultra-rare “Ty Cobb King of the … [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...]
Second T206 Cobb Back Coming to Auction
A second Ty Cobb Tobacco back card from the Lucky 7 find is coming to auction early next year. The owner of one of the four cards graded 2.5 by PSA has consigned it to Heritage Auctions’ Winter Platinum Night sale on February 25-26. In October, Robert Edward Auctions offered the first of the seven rare Cobb cards to be offered at public auction. The PSA 1.5 sold for … [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...]
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...]
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...]
T206 Wagner Brings $1.32 Million
One of the better examples of sports collecting’s holy grail sold early Sunday morning when Robert Edward Auctions’ spring catalog event came to an end. The PSA 3 T206 Honus Wagner generated 42 bids and sold for $1.32 million, a record price for the grade. That figure includes a 20% buyer’s premium added to all lots in the auction. The same card, dubbed the ‘Oceanside … [Read more...]
