Our Winter auction features this beautiful Gary Carter signature model K55, dating to the 1973 labeling period, prior to “The Kid” breaking into the big leagues. Carter’s time in the minors featured a rather meteoric rise, rocketing through Rookie and A ball in 1972, a full season of AA ball in Quebec in 1973, a full season …
The Schmelzer’s Sporting Goods pinback button set is incredibly rare, with only a few dozen examples known of any player, and just five Ty Cobb examples known to exist. The 1 1/4″ diameter pinback issue is among the most rare of all baseball pinback sets, the first baseball celluloid pinback issue to feature lithographic artwork …
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The second of the T216 Mino cards featured in this auction, the Tris Speaker card earned its way into our “Featured Items” section simply due to the head-turning responses it received at three Northeast shows where we displayed the card. The card turned heads in unexpected ways, with just two collectors ever having seen one …
The phrase “Yellow Gehrig” is one any prewar collector will recognize; it clearly refers to the iconic 1934 Goudey card featuring the bold portrait of a smiling Yankee captain, set against a bright yellow background. The Gehrig-endorsed 1934 Goudey issue helped cement the first baseman as the game’s biggest star in the wake of a …
There are some collectibles that are fascinating and interesting, and there are others that are just too cool to properly describe, and this qualifies as one of them. Winning five consecutive AL West championships, the Oakland A’s of the early 1970s were one of the game’s most electrifying and dominant teams. Their colorful nature was encouraged by …
Near the peak of their strength as a team, the 1952 Brooklyn Dodgers sent seven players to the All-Star game at Shibe Park in Philadelphia: Roy Campanella, Carl Furillo, Gil Hodges, Pee Wee Reese, Jackie Robinson, Preacher Roe and Duke Snider. The game was halted early due to rain, called after just five innings, with …
The T216 People’s Tobacco issues are the last of the Louisiana-based tobacco sets. Issued during the lengthy period between 1911 and 1916, the cards advertise either Kotton, Mino, or Virginia Extra brands, with Mino and Virginia Extra being the more scarce varieties. The cards are extraordinarily scarce today, with higher-grade commons reaching into the four-figure …
Pathe’ Records was an international record label and phonograph manufacturer based in France. Originally in the business of manufacturing phonograph cylinders, the company began making traditional “disc” records in the early 1900s, and while a major company in France, was largely unsuccessful in making a dent in the United States market. In 1920, the company …
