So, we had our first auction. Our exciting day began early in the morning, when we noticed bidding activity begin to increase. Traffic remained steady all through the day, and when the auction went into extended bidding at 6PM, things were about as exciting as they could be. Bidding was brisk, the phones were ringing, […]
Just a quick advance note about the auction. It closes Saturday, at 6PM, EASTERN TIME. In order to participate in extended bidding, you need to have a bid on the lot you’re interested in – so if you haven’t bid, BID NOW! The entire auction stays open until no lot has received a bid for
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GREAT MEADOWS, N.J., October 9, 2012 – Bidding is now open at Love of the Game Auctions, a new Internet-based sports auction house catering to the passionate collector of memorabilia and cards. With an inaugural auction highlighted by the most treasured and valuable of all football cards – the 1935 National Chicle Bronko Nagurski –
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Brand new auction – our first ever – is open for bidding. Please visit http://www.loveofthegameauctions.com – and we’ll keep blogging about individual lots as we move forward. Thanks for all your support!
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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
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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
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