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We’re proud to be offering an excellent example of a T206 Hall of Famer with an extraordinarily rare back.  This card features one of the rarest of all the different T206 back varieties.  Indeed, as of this writing, PSA has only graded 82 T206s with Drum Cigarettes backs, and between PSA and SGC only five […]

In the hobby of baseball autograph collecting, few signatures are more desirable or instantly recognizable than that of “The Iron Horse,” Lou Gehrig.  In the hobby of baseball card collecting, few cards are more iconic than Gehrig’s #92 card from the 1993 Goudey set.  Here is an item that combines both: Gehrig’s classic ’33 Goudey

In building our first auction, one of the things that I’m discovering is how quickly the auction is defining itself, in terms of what kind of items we’ll have to offer. The tagline “A curated selection of sophisticated sports artifacts” couldn’t be more true.  One of the places you’ll see it right off the bat

I don’t think there has.  The Sporting News voted him the best pro football player ever, which is a pretty serious accolade. We’ve got some excellent Jim Brown cards in our auction.  I thought it would be cool to show them to you and let them speak for themselves.

Our friend Todd, who runs the blog Tales from the American Football League, blogs about Lance Alworth today.  He’s got a pretty cool replica of Alworth’s Hall of Fame bust. Last week we received our own Alworth item, this mint condition copy of his 1964 Topps football card.  It was part of a nice consignment

Once in a while, a new hobby discovery turns the collecting world on its ear.  With decades of people collecting and cataloging cards, how is it that there can be an undiscovered card issue?  And yet it’s happened in recent memory, with the 1921 Herpolsheimers, 1916 Tango Eggs, and 1920 Peggy Popcorn sets, among others.

So far, we’ve focused this blog on cards.  Baseball and football. We’ve got other things in the inaugural auction.  But we’re going to ease you in slowly with this fantastic autographed 1962 Topps special card of the subject of yesterday’s blog entry, Mickey Mantle. Card #318 from that set illustrates the powerful left-handed swing of

No. So we have Mickey. We’re proud to offer his true “rookie card,” among others – this collector-grade 1951 Bowman.  Still a card worth thousands, this particular example has a clean surface but two soft corners and weaker centering that bring it below EX condition.  Still, it would be difficult to find a nicer 4