A 1927 World Champion New York Yankees team-signed photograph sold for $275,706; a Babe Ruth game-used bat sold for $171,190; what is generally regarded as the finest Wayne Gretzky game jersey in the hobby went for $110,293; Ray Nitschkes original 1967 Green Bay Packers Super Bowl II championship ring attracted a bid of $91,151; and Gus Williams 1979 Seattle Supersonics NBA World Championship ring sold for $91,000 in SCP Auctions April auction. Read More

A high grade 1932 U.S. Caramel set was broken up and sold card by card to highly interested buyers from coast-to-coast as Memory Lane Inc. put the cap on its Spring Fever Rarities Auction.  The prize card in the set, a PSA 8 (NM/MT) Babe Ruth sold for a record-setting $42,767, one of several new marks set as bidding wound to a close early Sunday.  In all, over 900 lots were sold in the auction, with over $1.24 million realized. Read More

Babe Ruth, baseball’s greatest icon, took top honors in Heritage Auctions’ $6.2+ million May 2-4 Signature® Sport Collectibles event, as his 1935 Yankees jersey, never used by The Bambino – his status as a Yankee was made obsolete by his off-season trade to the Boston Braves – commanded $286,800,shattering the record price realized for an unworn sports uniform. Second place in the memorabilia portion of the auction likewise went to the Bambino, with a record price for a post-career bat realized at $71,700. All prices include 19.5% Buyer’s Premium. Read More

Since 2009, the highest price realized at auction for a PSA 8 Roberto Clemente rookie was $6341 — until now. In the April 2013 SportsCardLink auction, this card sold for $8036, nearly $2,000 higher than the previous high. There are 20 other auction results recorded on VCP (vintagecardprices.com) for Clemente’s rookie card in PSA 8 since 2009, with the average price being $5413. So, in addition to being 27% higher than the previous auction high, it is $2600 or 48% over the previous average price realized at auction. Read More

A 1927 World Champion New York Yankees team-signed photograph sold for $275,706; a Babe Ruth game-used bat sold for $171,190; what is generally regarded as the finest Wayne Gretzky game jersey in the hobby went for $110,293; Ray Nitschkes original 1967 Green Bay Packers Super Bowl II championship ring attracted a bid of $91,151; and Gus Williams 1979 Seattle Supersonics NBA World Championship ring sold for $91,000 in SCP Auctions April auction which concluded early Sunday. Read More

NBA great John Havlicek’s collection of personal memorabilia garnered more than $1 million in Session One of SCP Auction’s premier spring auction that concluded early Saturday morning.  Top lots included $80,750.40 for his personal NBA 50 Greatest Players autographed lithograph and $68,481.60 for his 1963 Boston Celtics World Championship ring.  All prices are inclusive of a 20 percent buyers’ premium.  Read More

Iconic Auctions Spring Catalog Auction was a tremendous success, and we want to thank all of our consignors and bidders who participated in the sale. We hammered some pretty impressive numbers, including the following stellar sales:

Lot #2: John Lennon & Paul McCartney Signed Maclen Music Check…Sold for $16,902.55

Lot #21: Thurman Munson Signed OAL Baseball…Sold for $10,233.65

Lot #4: Led Zeppelin Group Signed Album…Sold for $15,051.60 Read More

Small Traditions continues to grow. Our Monthly Masterpieces Plus #7 event, established several new sales records for individual lots and reached new milestones, yet again, for total bids, total active bidders, and total sales. We registered over 100 new bidders, soared past 20,000 total bids, and awarded more cash and card giveaways than in any month since starting our auctions last year (please see below for a list of winners). Read More

The numbers 56, 61 and 3,000 are all special in the world of baseball.  You can now put $2,105,770.50 into that class as a 1909 T206 Honus Wagner graded EX 5 (MC) by PSA was sold for that amount by Goldin Auctions today to become the highest price ever paid for any baseball card in a public auction.  In all, more than 30 record prices were paid in the auction which generated more than $3.2 million in sales. Read More

Iconic cards from the 1930s led the way in Memory Lane’s recently completed I Own it Now catalog sale, topped by one of just nine PSA 9 copies of the 1933 Goudey Napoleon Lajoie.  The event opened in late February with collectors having the option to pull the trigger on some high grade vintage cards or wait for the five day fixed price period to end and hope they could buy it with a lower offer. Sometimes the gamble pays off and other times, a popular item is snared by the early bird. Read More

The great names of New York Yankees history dominated the night on Feb. 23 when Heritage Auctions held its’ winter Platinum Night Sports auction, which realized more than $5.95 million, at the Fletcher-Sinclair Mansion (Ukrainian Institute of America) with Lou Gehrig’s 1927-28 game worn jersey leading the offerings with a final price realized of $717,000, followed by Mickey Mantle’s signed  and endorsed 1949 Yankees signing bonus check, which soared to almost 30 times its pre-auction estimate to finish the night at $286,800 (all prices include Buyer’s Premium). Read More

The Milwaukee Bucks jersey worn by Lew Alcindor in his rookie season in 1969-’70 and in the team’s only NBA championship season in 1970-’71 was sold at auction Saturday for $95,600.  The winning bidder was Troy Kinunen, who runs a memorabilia evaluation and research service called Mears Online. Kinunen has a sports collectibles museum in South Milwaukee.  Read full story here on JSOnline.com.

The jersey that was worn by team captain Mike Eruzione in the 1980 U.S. Men’s Olympic Hockey Team “Miracle on Ice” 4-3 victory over the dreaded and feared Soviet Union team – voted Top Sports Moment of the 20^th Century by Sports Illustrated – and the stick that Eruzione used to score the eventual game-winning goal realized $657,250 and $262,900, respectively, to bring more than $920,000 at Heritage Auctions’ on Feb. 23. Read More

Love of the Game Auctions, an Internet-based sports auction house catering to the passionate collector of memorabilia and cards, has announced the successful completion of its second sale. The February 2 auction generated total prices realized in excess of $160,000 with more than 160 different winning bidders. Nearly 2,600 bids were placed on the auction’s 374 lots, an average of nearly 7 bids per lot. Read More

Jump starting the New Year with a resounding bang, Mile High Card Company concluded its Premium Holiday auction on January 31st, 2013 and saw tremendous results across the board. This auction had a markedly different feel in terms of size and scope in comparison to traditional MHCC auctions, focusing on a smaller lot size with select higher-level items being offered continuing the format the company has used the previous three years to start the year. Read More

The auctions of Love of the Game Auctions, Mile High Card Company, and MEARS Auction all concluded this past week with great results.  Top selling items from all of these auctions include: Read More

Heritage retained its title as the world’s largest seller of sports collectibles in 2012 after closing the year with more than $20 million in sales. In early August, with a story that set national media ablaze, Heritage offered a set of baseball cards from 1910 popularly referred to as the “Black Swamp Find.” Found in an attic in Defiance, Ohio, the first 71 cards offered brought $785,445. Read More

Horrors of War unopened cello packs marketed in a boxed “Gift Set” for the Christmas season brought an astonishing $56,869.12 at the December 21, 2012 Lelands.com Auction. This “virgin set” was discovered in the New England area where the cards were originally made. It is believed the gift sets are so rare because they were only marketed locally. Read More

A rare and genuine piece of American history, the Jackie Robinson worn 1950 Brooklyn Dodgers jersey generated 21 bids and ultimately sold for $401,968 in Leland’s winter auction. The first ever African-American player in major league baseball, Jackie opened the door for all minority players and left a legacy that lives on.  Lelands.com’s winter auction contained over seven hundred lots of sports memorabilia, pop culture and Americana memorabilia and vintage photographs. Read More

A 1916 Sporting News Babe Ruth card from a newly graded complete set topped Memory Lane’s “The Find” Auction early Sunday morning.  The card, part of a complete set consigned by a Midwestern family that had passed it through generations, sold for $89,250 including the buyer’s premium.  Graded PSA 5, the card features Ruth as a pitcher with the Boston Red Sox.  This variation was blank-backed. Read More