One of several extraordinary advertising trade cards in our February auction, this one is for the Sporting Life Publishing Co. Listed in the ACC as H804-8, these are among the more colorful, beautiful, and desirable of all the 19th Century baseball trade card sets. Featuring colorful Victorian illustrations on the front, along with […]
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The E90-1 card of “Shoeless” Joe Jackson is one of the most valuable and highly desirable of all the caramel cards. Jackson’s “rookie card,” the E90-1 is among his most valuable as well, and is always in high demand among collectors. Despite having been infamously banned from baseball as a result of his involvement with
Earlier this year, the card set known today as E98s received a huge boost in popularity, due to the famed “Black Swamp Find.” The cards, issued in 1910, were produced by an unknown manufacturer but are closely related to other candy issues of the era. Comprised of 30 different cards, a “master” set consists of
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After just one auction, Love of the Game has been fortunate enough to begin developing a reputation of being a place for T206 collectors to find some special material. Our auction last fall featured a number of difficult back varieties, some lovely higher-grade Hall of Famers, and individual lots containing beautiful cards. Our second auction
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We may have mentioned that Rudy Strejc was likely a smoker of Old Mill cigarettes. We draw this conclusion based on the amount of cards in his collection that had Old Mill backs. The collection contained 100 or so T206s, most of which had Old Mill backs. This yielded a pretty cool assortment of cards,
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On Tuesday it was announced that the Pre-Integration Committee of the Baseball Hall of Fame had elected Hank O’Day, with Hank receiving 15 votes from the 16-member commission. O’Day, the only man in history to play, umpire, and manage in the National League, was an umpire in the first World Series in 1903, along with
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Tobacco-Era, 1948 Leaf and 1952 Topps Cards Among Highlights GREAT MEADOWS, N.J., Dec. 3, 2012 –Love of the Game Auctions, an Internet-based sports auction house catering to the passionate collector of memorabilia and cards, announced today that it will feature the Rudy Strejc Collection in its January/February 2013 auction. Highlights include tobacco-era cards –
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We’re in the process of aggressively seeking consignments for our winter, 2013 auction, and we’re thrilled to report that for the second auction in a row, we’ll be offering an example of the hobby’s most valuable football card: the 1935 National Chicle Bronko Nagurski. This beautiful mid-grade example is one of the nicer ones you’ll
