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1933 Goudey Babe Ruth #181 Value & Price Guide
Sports Cards · Updated about 1 month ago
The 1933 Goudey set is the most important bubble gum card set in baseball history. It was the first major set distributed in gum packs, the first to feature current players in color, and it contains not one but four Babe Ruth cards. Card #181 is the one with the biggest portrait: Ruth's face fill...
1923 German Hyperinflation Stamps (Billion-Mark Values) Price Guide
Stamps · Updated about 1 month ago
In January 1923, a letter within Germany cost 50 marks to mail. By November of the same year, the same letter cost 100 billion marks. The numbers on German postage stamps that year tell a story of economic catastrophe so extreme it reads like fiction. Stamps were printed with denominations of 5 m...
1866 Abraham Lincoln 15-Cent Mourning Stamp (Scott #77) Value & Price Guide
Stamps · Updated about 1 month ago
On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre. The president died the following morning. A nation that had just survived four years of civil war went into mourning for the man who had held it together. Almost exactly one year later, in April 1866, the Post Office De...
1982 No-P Roosevelt Dime Value & Price Guide
Coins · Updated about 1 month ago
In 1980, the United States Mint did something it had never done before: it started putting a "P" mint mark on coins struck at the Philadelphia facility. For nearly 200 years, Philadelphia coins had gone unmarked, while branch mints (Denver, San Francisco, etc.) added their identifying letters. Th...
1918/7-S Standing Liberty Quarter Overdate Value & Price Guide
Coins · Updated about 1 month ago
At the San Francisco Mint in 1918, someone made a decision that created one of the most famous error coins in American numismatics. A 1917 die was repunched with a 1918 date, but the original 7 wasn't fully obliterated. The result is a coin where both dates are visible: 1918 over 1917. It's calle...
1652 Pine Tree Shilling Value & Price Guide
Coins · Updated about 1 month ago
Every Pine Tree Shilling is dated 1652. Every single one. It doesn't matter if it was struck in 1667 or 1682. The Massachusetts Bay Colony put 1652 on the die and never changed it, possibly to maintain the fiction that the coins were minted under Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth (which had authoriz...
Handel Company Reverse-Painted Lamps Value & Price Guide
Antiques & Decorative Arts · Updated about 1 month ago
In a factory in Meriden, Connecticut, artists sat at workbenches painting landscapes on the inside of glass lamp shades. They painted backward, building up layers from the details to the background, so that when the lamp was lit, the scene would glow from within like a stained glass window you co...
Rickenbacker 360/12 (1964 Beatles Era) Value & Price Guide
Musical Instruments · Updated about 1 month ago
In February 1964, the Beatles arrived in New York for the first time. Somewhere during that chaotic trip, a Rickenbacker representative handed George Harrison a prototype 12-string electric guitar. It was a 360/12 in Fireglo (sunburst), one of the first electric 12-strings ever made. Harrison plu...
1999 Pokemon 1st Edition Machamp Holo (Error) Value & Price Guide
Trading Cards · Updated about 1 month ago
Here's a fact that confuses almost every Pokemon card collector at some point: every Base Set Machamp holo has a 1st Edition stamp on it. Every single one. The "unlimited" print runs, the later shadow border versions, even the ones that came in starter decks sold at Target in 2000. They all say 1...
Vacheron Constantin 222 (Ref. 44018) Value & Price Guide
Watches · Updated about 1 month ago
In 1977, Vacheron Constantin turned 222 years old. To celebrate, they released a watch called, simply, the 222. It was a steel sports watch with an integrated bracelet, designed by Jorg Hysek. It arrived in the same era as the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak and the Patek Philippe Nautilus, two watches...
Stretch Armstrong (1976 Kenner Original) Value & Price Guide
Toys & Figures · Updated about 1 month ago
Every kid who owned a Stretch Armstrong in the 1970s did the same thing eventually. They stretched him too far, or bent him the wrong way, or their older brother got curious about what was inside. The latex skin tore, the corn syrup filling oozed out, and Stretch was done. That's why a toy that s...
The Smiths "Hand in Glove" Rough Trade 7" First Pressing Value & Price Guide
Vinyl Records · Updated about 1 month ago
On May 13, 1983, Rough Trade Records released a 7-inch single by a Manchester band that barely anyone had heard of. The A-side was called "Hand in Glove." The B-side was "Handsome Devil." John Peel played it on German radio and called it "perfectly adequate, that, as a debut single." Catalog numb...
Walking Dead #1 (2003 Image Comics) Value & Price Guide
Comic Books · Updated about 1 month ago
Robert Kirkman pitched The Walking Dead to Image Comics as a zombie story with a twist: it would never end. The zombies were the setting, not the plot. The real story was about people trying to rebuild something human in a world that had stopped being one. Image said yes. Tony Moore drew it. The ...
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 (1984 Mirage) Value & Price Guide
Comic Books · Updated about 1 month ago
Two guys in their twenties pooled their tax refunds, borrowed from a relative, and printed 3,000 copies of a black-and-white comic about four mutated turtles who knew ninjutsu. Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird called their publishing company Mirage Studios, which was a joke. There was no studio. The...
1984-85 Star Co. Michael Jordan #101 Value & Price Guide
Sports Cards · Updated about 1 month ago
In 1984, a small New Jersey company called Star Co. held the exclusive NBA trading card license. They printed cards in team sets, sealed them in clear plastic bags, and shipped them to a handful of hobby dealers. About 3,000 bags went out for each team. Nobody treated them like anything special. ...
1861 Confederate States Postage Stamps Value & Price Guide
Stamps · Updated about 1 month ago
When the Confederate States of America took over mail delivery on June 1, 1861, they had a problem. They had a post office. They had mailbags and routes and postmasters. What they didn't have was postage stamps. The US Post Office had stopped delivering mail to the seceded states, and any remain...
1847 US 5¢ and 10¢ First Issue Stamps Value & Price Guide
Stamps · Updated about 1 month ago
On July 1, 1847, the United States Post Office put stamps on sale for the first time. There were only two: a 5-cent stamp featuring Benjamin Franklin and a 10-cent stamp featuring George Washington. You could buy them at the New York City post office starting that morning. By the end of the day, ...
1974-D Aluminum Cent (Experimental) Value & Price Guide
Coins · Updated about 1 month ago
In 1973, copper prices were rising fast enough that the US Mint started to worry. The copper in a Lincoln cent was approaching the coin's face value, which meant people might start melting pennies for profit. The Mint needed a cheaper alternative. Their solution: make the penny out of aluminum. ...
1879 $4 Stella (Flowing Hair) Value & Price Guide
Coins · Updated about 1 month ago
The United States almost had a four-dollar gold coin. In 1879, Congress was debating whether to create a coin that could circulate internationally alongside European gold pieces like the French 20-franc, the Italian 20-lira, and the Spanish 25-peseta. The idea was a universal trade coin, valued a...
1909-S Indian Head Cent Value & Price Guide
Coins · Updated about 1 month ago
The San Francisco Mint struck 309,000 Indian Head cents in 1909. That's it. It was the last year of the Indian Head series and the first year that any branch mint produced cents with the "S" mintmark. Within months, the Lincoln cent had replaced it, and those 309,000 coins became the lowest-minta...
HeroQuest (1989 Milton Bradley/Games Workshop) Value & Price Guide
Collectible Toys & Games · Updated about 1 month ago
In 1989, Milton Bradley and Games Workshop did something neither company could have done alone. Milton Bradley knew how to sell board games to families. Games Workshop knew how to design dungeon-crawling miniature games for obsessive hobbyists. They combined those skills and created HeroQuest, a ...
Gustav Stickley Furniture (Pre-1916) Value & Price Guide
Antiques & Decorative Arts · Updated about 1 month ago
Gustav Stickley didn't just make furniture. He started a movement. In 1898, after visiting Europe and encountering the Arts and Crafts philosophy of William Morris and John Ruskin, the Syracuse-born cabinetmaker came home and threw out everything he knew about Victorian furniture. No more ornate ...
2002 Yu-Gi-Oh! LOB 1st Edition Blue-Eyes White Dragon Value & Price Guide
Trading Cards · Updated about 1 month ago
Seto Kaiba ripped the fourth Blue-Eyes White Dragon in half during the first episode of the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime. It was a power move meant to establish the character as the series' primary rival. But for a generation of kids watching that scene in the early 2000s, it sparked an obsession. They wanted...
Seiko 6139-600x "Pogue" Chronograph Value & Price Guide
Watches · Updated about 1 month ago
In 1973, Colonel William Pogue packed for his trip to Skylab 4, the third and final crewed mission to America's first space station. NASA issued Omega Speedmasters to its astronauts, but Pogue brought his own watch: a bright yellow Seiko 6139-6002 automatic chronograph he had bought at a PX (mili...
Polly Pocket (1989 Bluebird Originals) Value & Price Guide
Toys & Figures · Updated about 1 month ago
Chris Wiggs made the first Polly Pocket for his daughter Kate. It was 1983, and he carved a tiny doll house inside a powder compact so she could carry it in her pocket. The concept was simple: a miniature world that snapped shut and fit in a child's hand. Wiggs patented the design and licensed it...