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

The key card in one of the hobby’s most rare and desirable vintage bakery issues, this is a spectacular card from the very rare D304 General Baking Company series.  Issued between 1911 and 1914 by the Buffalo, NY company and featuring one of five different back varieties, the issue today known as D304 and commonly

Gum card manufacturers of the 1930s popularized the practice of producing “premiums,” larger-format cards redeemable with the exchange of a given number of baseball cards or wrappers at the point of sale. Carrying on this tradition in 1948-49 was the Leaf Gum Company of Chicago, which offered a larger-format, pinup-sized premium to young chewers of

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