Restored Honus Wagner T206 Fetches $420,000 … But What Does It Mean?
A heavily restored Honus Wagner T206 card recently sold for more than $400,000 For a long time, restorations have been accepted in various forms of collectibles such as [...]
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What are Exhibit Cards? Here’s a Look at the Basics.
The popular sports cards spanned a total of four decades Many collectors have heard of Exhibit cards but those not familiar with vintage issues are not always entirely sure [...]
So You Wanna Grade Your Cards? Here are the Basics.
Here’s an FAQ on how to have your cards professionally graded How can you have your cards graded? It’s a popular question being asked more and more by collectors [...]
Cap Anson’s Old Judge Uniform Variation may be Top 19th Century Card
A rare card of one of the game’s top superstars could be the best card of the 19th Century By many accounts, Hall of Famer Cap Anson is baseball’s first true [...]
Heritage to Auction PSA’s Highest-Graded 1933 Goudey Set
The top PSA 1933 Goudey baseball card set will be auctioned in January A short while back, the highest-graded T206 set was auctioned, raising more than $8 million. Now the [...]
Hunt Auctions to Offer Items from Babe Ruth’s Personal Collection
The auction will be live and hosted in June 2019 Hunt Auctions recently made a pretty important announcement surrounding the sale of several pieces of Babe Ruth memorabilia. [...]
British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame fills gaps in 1930s Vancouver Peanuts checklist
Significant progress has been made on checklisting a rare Canadian baseball card set Simply put, the Vancouver Peanuts sets of the 1930s are among the rarest known issues of [...]
Modern Card Ramblings of a Pre-War Collector: Mark Jackson / Menendez Brothers 1990-91 Hoops Card
A unique basketball card from the junk wax era is drawing attention The 1990-91 Hoops basketball set is nothing special. In general, the highlight is the rookie card of Gary [...]
Forged Goudey Cards Begin to Surface Following T206 Scandal
Days after the Net54 discovery of forged T206 autographs, fake Goudey signatures surface Well, it only seemed like a matter of time, right? As I wrote a few days ago in the [...]
Reprints and fakes shouldn’t be viewed as the same
Collectors need to realize that reprints and fakes are not the same thing As I’ve covered in the past, pre-war card collecting can be done inexpensively. Now, you [...]
Digging into Rarity for 1930s Dixie Lids Backs
What are the most common (and most difficult) 1930s Dixie Lids backs? The Dixie Lids backs of the 1930s (more specifically, 1937 and 1938) are similar to several sets, [...]
PSA adjusting its prices for grading in 2019
Prices are set to increase for some card collectors A short while back, I wrote an article about grading companies getting behind on orders. In short, the three major [...]
