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Skip to content Vintage Non-Sports Cards The place to discuss 1880’s to 1970 vintage non-sports cards and associated collectibles Menu Blog Auction Twitter Forum Gallery Nonsports 19th Century Tobacco (N) Cards Cabinets Pinbacks Political Tobacco Advertising Sports Louisville Colonels Louisville Colonels – Photos Louisville Colonels – Team Issued Photos Louisville Colonels – Season Passes Louisville Colonels – Schedules Hobby Resources Help Scroll down to content Posts Posted on January 31, 2020 January 31, 2020 Vintage Nonsports Auction #4 Results Thanks for the support on the auctions……I’ve been fortunate to bring to auction a number of really tough cards and Auction #4 was no exception. Thanks to some fantastic consignors, who I immensely appreciate, the following nonsports types brought what I would consider to be above market prices. Auction #4 N64 A&G Virginia Brights “Girls & Children” Type $127.33 N198 Kimball Tobacco “Women’s Portraits” Type Card $319.00 N284 Buchner Gold Coin Actor Charles Coghlan PSA7 $259.42 N287 Buchner Gold Coin New York Scenes – Grand Central $395.08 N316 Mayo Cut Plug Actress Type $263.32 N324 S F Hess Terms of Poker – Two Fives $285.60 N384-1 Spaulding & Merrick Echo Tobacco “Actresses” Type $178.64 N394 Admiral Tobacco Sights and Scenes – Chicago Exposition $410.64 N557 Little Rhody Cut Plug National Sports – England $193.97 N567 Newsboy Cabinet #204 San Francisco, USN $267.75 N567 Newsboy Cabinet #205 City Hall $285.60 T2 Actress (Egyptian Girls) Cabinet Card $188.02 T10 Cabinet Theatrical Series Grace George Type $1071.00 T139 Hoffman House “Renowned Paintings” Type $180.88 R210 Trio Gum Harry S Truman $1370.88 R722-10 Leader Novelty Full Box – King Arthur’s Knights #6 $2499.00 Tough “N”, “T” and “R” type cards seem to be on fire with multiple bidders on each. This bodes well for the market for sure. In addition higher grade cards from the mainstream collectible sets from A&G, Buchner and others seem to be doing well as the search for high grade registry copies intensifies. Some PSA 6-7-8 prices of collectible sets from the January auction include: N3 A&G Arms of all Nations Cannon PSA8 $730.80 N3 A&G Arms Lot of (3) PSA7 Cards $1089.24 N3 A&G Arms Lot of 6) PSA6 Cards $952.36 N9 A&G Flags Lot of (2) PSA7 Cards $278.40 N12 A&G Fruits Lot of (3) PSA7 Cards $737.76 The auction also saw a first foray into sports cards with a group of all (10) of the N28 Allen & Ginter World’s Champions baseball cards. The (10) cards are some of the most popular cards in the baseball genre and widely collected. The group of (10) cards were graded by SGC with grades ranging from SGC1 to SGC7. The group of (10) cards brought a total of $7749.28 with the Mike “King” Kelly card, graded SGC7 at $2570.40 and the Adrian “Cap” Anson SGC3 at $1755.25. The next auction will be in May 2020 and we look forward to another group of fantastic type cards and other oddball items. We are always accepting consignments for the auction. Thank again to all bidders and consignors! Some pictures of great types from the auction: Posted on October 2, 2019 October 2, 2019 October Auction Preview 10/14 noon Bidding begins 10/17 noon Initial bidding ends 10/27 8:00p Posted on August 5, 2019 August 5, 2019 2019 National Convention Roundup – Chicago Here’s some notes from the National……… I should have updated on a daily basis but just didn’t get ‘er done………. Big highlight for me was getting Dan’s 1932 U.S. Caramel Presidents Cancelled set with McKinley graded by SGC. The grading companies have gone to a system where they’re getting more and more of the pie on higher dollar cards. Although it takes just a little longer for review probably, grading a $20,000 card, now costs $1500 at the show. A $100 value card cost $35 to get graded. Kind of crazy. With the punches, the McKinley graded a SGC20 or “1”. The rest of the cards graded SGC30 or “2” with the backstamps Stayed at the Hyatt next door. Nice in that it’s walking distance and didn’t have to get the car out and drive to the $30/day parking area….. The show was at the Donald Stephens Convention Center…..home to a number of Nationals over the last 20 years………. The Chicago location is one of our favorites because right across the street is Gibson’s steak house and you can scoot over there for lunch and for $14 get a great burger and fries or (3) Filet Mignon sliders and fries. A crappy hot dog, chips and coke in the show is about $12.00. So a no brainer. The show seems to offer less and less to collectors of nonsports. There are fewer and fewer dealers with nonsports cards and what the bulk of them have is mostly 1950’s and 1960’s Topps, Bowman and other cards. A few dealers had older stuff including Steve Sabow: Terry Knouse Some cool wax packs at one guys table: Wax was VERY popular around for sports and nonsports……..BBCE is the ‘authenticator’ of wax and they had a ton of Garbage Pail and Star Wars wax…….. BREAKING wax is now a HUGE HUGE thing. They have a separate pavillion where people do group breaks and vlog (like a written blog but it’s video……for those who didn’t know what VLOG was…..like I didn’t really) the results. People buy into a group break and buy a team or some piece of the action in some capacity. Some sports notes too………. This guy, Tim Carroll does artwork creating cards FROM cards………this picture of the 1953 Topps Satchell Paige card was created from other cards that he cuts and uses to craft the original card. Taking a view from farther out, it looks like neat artwork but closer up, you can see how the cards are cut to make the final product. Incredibly cool stuff. Some Great graded sports packs (and a HOW Pack at Leland’s) An incredible Ruth and Gehrig Exhibit collection to be sold at Hunts………… Great T206 album with cards glued in………….. All in all it was a good National Convention. Got to see a number of message board participants including Marty Krim and his amazing wife Debby, Tom Ryan, Daniel Hollandbeck and others I’m probably missing. Next year’s National is in Atlantic City. Should be interesting……… Posted on July 9, 2019 July 9, 2019 Auction…..Part Deux Whew. Auction 2 concluded on 6/26 and I’ve been feverishly trying to get items picked, packed and posted. The 3 P’s. I told someone today, I’ve worked at UPS for 34 years, owned a The UPS Store franchise for 3 years and shipped 10’s of thousands of eBay items since 1995 but the auction business is so totally different. Most of the eBay sales are 1-2-3 items that are like-sized and all together and inventory management isn’t a tough proposition. With this auction, especially, I had many many more odd-sized items and large display items and getting them pulled and sizing packing needs has been a challenge. I’d say I’m about 85-90% complete. Still waiting on a few payments too. I sincerely appreciate everyone’s involvement in the Auction–Consignors, Bidders, Advice givers, everyone. This auction had about 150 items more than last auction and about 100 more items in total that sold than the last auction. Dollar amount was up about 10% over last auction, total bids placed were up about 25% and registered users about a same amount. The October auction will be our third and final installment for 2019 and will run from 10/17-10/27. Hopefully the Sunday evening 8pm closing time worked a little better than the previous auction. I’m accepting consignments for the October and future auctions now. The October auction will feature prominently a complete cancelled 1932-3 U.S. Caramel Presidents set of 31 cards INCLUDING the ultra-rare William McKinley card. The cards will be graded by SGC at the National in Chicago in early August. In addition, 1930’s complete sets for the auction will include complete sets of higher grade National Chicle Skybirds, Goudey Circus puzzle complete set, R60 Gum Inc G-Men and Heroes of the Law and many, many more. Posted on April 15, 2019 April 15, 2019 A trip to the Met………… I spent ...