September 2012

It is fitting that the 1945 Mutoscope “Artists Pin Up Girls” set should be the only non-sports set in our inaugural auction.  This 64-card set, published at the height of the “pin-up girl” craze, features colorful drawings of scantily-dressed women, captioned by (not always particularly) humorous double-entendres describing the situation or pose in the drawing. […]

In our inaugural auction, we are proud to feature an extremely high-grade complete set of 1963 Fleer Football cards.  Graded entirely by PSA, the set has a staggering GPA of 7.72, ranking it #13 on the PSA Registry and one of the top 20 PSA-graded 1963 Fleer football sets of all time.  73% of the

One of the greatest pleasures I’m taking out of researching and writing auction descriptions is learning about the long-lost stories they tell, and unearthing these amazing legends, seeing how they all fit together, and explaining it in the descriptions. This is Jimmy McAleer.  He was born in 1864 in Youngstown, Ohio, and at some point

We’re absolutely thrilled to announce the featured item in our inaugural auction, something we hinted about last week:  A high-grade 1935 National Chicle Bronko Nagurski. Known throughout the sports collecting hobby as the most coveted and valuable football card, this Nagurski has been graded NEAR MINT by PSA.  The Nagurski achieved its notoriety because it

Here’s Bob Feller, endorsing Roadmaster “Luxury Liner” bicycles, for our friend who wiped out on his bike while cycling in Northern NJ this past weekend.  Right now, this Feller is in better condition than our friend, with MUCH less surface wear. This photo premium was available for $0.10 from the Cleveland Welding Company, manufacturer of

The 1935 National Chicle football set is quite possibly the most important football set ever manufactured.  Weighing in at just 36 players, the checklist features some of the game’s biggest names, first-year cards of virtually every key subject in the set, and also contains the hobby’s most valuable and treasured card – the legendary #34

The World Football League was an upstart league designed as an alternative to the NFL in the mid-1970s.  Debuting in 1974, the league played much like the old American Basketball Association; fast and loose, with colorful characters and incredible stories.  To generate interest in the new league, team owners offered rich contracts to existing NFL

Presented here is an outstanding artifact from a nearly forgotten episode in the history of wartime America: the War Bonds Jubilee event, presented on August 26 of 1943.  This is an original gelatin silver news service photograph documenting that event, with seven of the 12 living Hall of Famers as of 1943, plus three who