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 […]
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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
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The first consignment to make it in the door was this lovely 1887 N690 Kalamazoo Bat card of Joseph Mulvey. I can’t imagine there’s a card that better describes the type of auction that we’re trying to deliver to collectors. The phrase “scarce and desirable” is used often in this hobby, but among prewar card collectors, there
Some collectors and I spent Tuesday night in Hoboken, NJ – the birthplace of baseball. Sort of an early start to the National, I guess – and definitely a baseball-themed night. We began the night at an establishment along the Hudson River, as we shared some stories (and beverages) with one eye on the MLB
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The National is always a fun thing. Sports collectors and dealers from all over the country get together in one place to find that elusive “white whale,” complete their sets, swing big trades and sell their inventory. Guys from the hobby message boards meet each other in person – sometimes for the first time. It’s
Last I checked, there were something like 20 auction houses in the sports hobby that I would call “regular” – legitimate companies that conducted regular auctions of sports cards and memorabilia. There were probably another dozen or so “occasional” auctions. And then there’s the one monstrous auction website that has items closing every minute of
