I haven’t. T206 collectors have a field day with this kind of stuff – off-registered cards, miscuts, print freaks, and other anomalies are well-documented, and very, very cool examples of poor turn-of-the-century quality control that help T206 scholars better understand print techniques, sheet placement, and other questions that have been lost to history. Cracker Jacks, […]

We’re proud to offer a starter lot of 25 high-grade examples of the 1949 Eureka Sportstamp issue. In the aftermath of World War II, sports card manufacturers were just beginning to kick back into production, with 1948 sets produced by Bowman and Leaf, along with some smaller issues like Topps Magic Photo, Swell Sports Thrills,

Here are two high-grade Hall of Fame rookie cards from the beautiful 1952 Bowman Large football set:  Giants’ running back/receiver Frank Gifford, and Cardinals/Rams/Lions/Eagles running back/receiver Ollie Matson. Matson, who was jointly awarded Rookie of the Year in 1952 and was a six-time Pro Bowler, was inducted into the pro football Hall of Fame in

We’re thrilled to offer a small grouping of Max Stein postcards. Prewar baseball postcards are growing in popularity, likely because of the vivid images and sharp photography many boast.  This rare issue, produced between 1909 and 1916 by the Max Stein company of Chicago, featured images of many types of subjects (actors, boxers, etc.) features

Don Mossi.  Hero of the vintage sports hobby. Mossi pitched 12 seasons, with Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago and Kansas City.  He won 101 games with a 3.43 lifetime ERA, topping out in 1959 with 17 wins against 9 losses with the 4th place Tigers.  The one-time All Star never threw more than 240 innings in a

While we started off our blog with lots and lots of baseball, make no mistake: Love of the Game Auctions is by no means a baseball-only company. Our first auction will also feature some of the most sought-after football cards in the hobby, including a group of high-grade 1948 Leaf football, led by this gorgeous example

The Breisch Williams E107 set of 1903 is important because it was the first major baseball card set of the 20th Century.  Featuring sharp, black-and-white photographic images, the E107 set contains 147 subjects and has become a popular set among advanced collectors due to the number of rookie cards of Hall of Famers, along with

Many prewar baseball card collectors consider the early 1930s to be the “golden age” of card collecting; notably 1933, when several of the most popular and lasting sets of cards were issued. In 1933, George C. Miller & Co. of Boston produced a 32-card set of the day’s stars, which received limited distribution at the