Multiple Records Set As Heritage’s Winter Sports Card Auction Races Past $10

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1952 Topps Cards Signed By Mickey Mantle And Jackie Robinson Excel

A Murderers’ Row of vintage cardboard, led by Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Jackie Robinson and Roberto Clemente, pushed Heritage Auctions’ latest Winter Sports Card Catalog Auction past the $10.1 million mark over the two days of Jan. 26 and 27. But the legendary sluggers weren’t alone atop the hits list, as more than 2,300 bidders worldwide also staked their claims to some coveted football, basketball and hockey cards. Among the notable offerings from the nearly soldout auction was a vending box of first-series 1959 Topps football cards that trampled preauction expectations, and what’s now the world’s most valuable 1968 Joe Namath card.

“Numerous records were once again achieved during the event, and it’s always a thrill to see which ones become collectors’ latest favorites,” said Chris Ivy, Heritage’s director of sports auctions. “Some you know will top the list, like the 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle, especially one of the very few signed by The Mick. Others, like that vending box of football cards or the PSA Gem Mint 10 1973 Roberto Clemente that became the first to crack six figures, remind us why we do this, because it’s just so much fun.”

Speaking of, alongside a 1952 Topps Mantle graded Near Mint-Mint 8 by SGC, which sold for $600,000, this auction also featured one of fewer than 10 ’52 Mantles autographed by The

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These 17 Golden Age publisher bound comic books realized $8,100.

This copy of Submariner Premier Issue #1 sold for $325.

This copy of Iron Fist with first appearance of SabreTooth sold for $350.

HAAR’S SPORTSMAN AUCTION

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Commerce Comet. The card itself is graded a PSA Good 2, but its true value could be found in the perfect autograph that drove its final price

Winter 2023 Estates Auction

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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26

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Thomas Eakins portrait, Charles M. Russell oil-water proof, Henry Weinsheimer, Victor Shearer; antique, vintage prints; Platinum, 18K, 14K, gold jewelry w/ diamonds, sapphires, rubies, emeralds, aquamarines, amethysts etc.; sterling jewelry, tableware; vintage costume jewelry; $20, $5, $2.50, $1 US gold coins; silver, copper US coins; US currency; vintage Disney; Rock & Roll, Rock collectibles; WWII items; pottery; porcelain; glassware; paper ephemera.

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baseball’s color barrier-breaker. The PSA counts more than 1,300 unsigned Robinsons from this year in its population report, but the Brooklyn Dodgers’ infielder signed only six. And of those, only one is graded higher than the PSA Very Good+ 3.5 that realized $216,000 in this auction.

That was only slightly less than the $228,000 one collector paid for the 1951 Bowman Willie Mays rookie card graded PSA Near Mint-Mint 8. The card’s scarcity is likewise unparalleled, as only nine unqualified examples have been graded higher.

It was only a matter of time before another of baseball’s great rarities broke the $100,000 mark, the 1973

Topps Roberto Clemente graded PSA Gem Mint 10. The card itself isn’t particularly hard to find, after all, there are 6,300 in PSA’s population report. But only seven have been awarded that Perfect 10. One of the Lucky Seven sold in 2021 for $38,425.20. Less than two years later, this one sold for $105,000 to shatter that previous highwater mark.

Another Clemente likewise toppled its previous record, when a 1971 Topps card featuring the late, great Pittsburgh Pirate graded PSA Mint 9 realized $66,000, which was $49,200 more than it sold for in July 2018.

That signed 1952 Mantle wasn’t the only Mantle cardboard to surpass expectations; a 1958 Topps Mickey Mantle All Star card graded