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1948 Bowman George Mikan #69
Sports Cards · Updated about 1 month ago
Before Michael Jordan, before LeBron James, before anyone could name a single basketball card worth real money, there was George Mikan. The 1948 Bowman set was the first major basketball card set produced in the United States. Card #69, George Mikan, was the set's star attraction. It remains the ...
1869 US Pictorial Issue Inverts
Stamps · Updated about 1 month ago
In 1869, the United States Post Office Department did something it had never done before: it put pictures on stamps. For the first time, American postage stamps featured images beyond portraits of dead statesmen. A horse and rider galloped across the 2-cent. A locomotive steamed across the 3-cent...
1856 Flying Eagle Cent (Proof)
Coins · Updated about 1 month ago
In 1856, the United States Mint had a problem. The large copper cents it had been producing since 1793 were expensive to make. The copper in each cent was worth nearly as much as the coin itself. Mint Director James Ross Snowden wanted to replace the big, heavy copper cent with something smaller,...
1796 Draped Bust Quarter (Small Eagle)
Coins · Updated about 1 month ago
The United States Mint struck its first quarter dollar in 1796. Only 6,146 were made. That number was small even by the standards of a mint that was barely four years old, operating out of a converted distillery in Philadelphia with a staff that could fit in a single room. The quarter denominatio...
Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader (1987 First Edition)
Collectible Toys & Games · Updated about 1 month ago
In 1987, Rick Priestley sat in the Games Workshop offices in Nottingham and finished writing a rulebook that would accidentally create one of the largest tabletop gaming universes ever conceived. Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader was not the polished, tournament-ready wargame that Warhammer 40K woul...
Selmer Mark VI Saxophone
Musical Instruments · Updated about 1 month ago
Between 1954 and 1981, the Henri Selmer company in Paris produced a saxophone that professional musicians would spend decades arguing about. The Mark VI was not the first professional saxophone Selmer built. It was not the last. But it became the standard against which every saxophone made since ...
Louis Comfort Tiffany Ecclesiastical Windows
Antiques & Decorative Arts · Updated about 1 month ago
In November 2024, a stained glass window designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany and Agnes Northrop sold for $12.48 million at Christie's. It had been made for a church in Ohio. The previous auction record for any Tiffany Studios piece was roughly $2 million. This sale beat it by more than 500%. The w...
Cartier Tank (1919-1930s Originals)
Watches · Updated about 1 month ago
In 1917, Louis Cartier stood on the Western Front watching Renault FT tanks roll across churned-up French soil. Something about the geometry stuck with him. The rectangular profile, the parallel track guards flanking the body, the clean mechanical lines. He went back to his workshop and sketched ...
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust (RCA First UK Pressing)
Vinyl Records · Updated about 1 month ago
# David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (RCA First UK Pressing) On June 16, 1972, RCA Records released what would become one of the most important rock albums of the 20th century. David Bowie had spent years struggling for commercial success, releasing folk ...
Avengers #1 (1963)
Comic Books · Updated about 1 month ago
# Avengers #1 (1963) Stan Lee had a problem. DC Comics had launched the Justice League of America in 1960, a team-up book featuring Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and other established heroes. It was selling like crazy. Marvel needed an answer. In September 1963, Lee and artist Jack Kirby put o...
2011 Topps Update Mike Trout Rookie #US175
Sports Cards · Updated about 1 month ago
# 2011 Topps Update Mike Trout Rookie #US175 Mike Trout was 19 years old and had played exactly 40 major league games when Topps printed his rookie card in the 2011 Update series. The card shows a baby-faced Trout in his Angels uniform, mid-swing, against a clean background. Card #US175. At the ...
1909-11 T206 Ty Cobb (Green Portrait)
Sports Cards · Updated about 1 month ago
# 1909-11 T206 Ty Cobb (Green Portrait) The T206 set is called "The Monster" by collectors, and for good reason. Produced between 1909 and 1911, the set contains over 520 different subjects across 16 different tobacco brand backs, creating thousands of possible variations. In the middle of this ...
1852 Baden 9 Kreuzer Error (Black on Blue-Green)
Stamps · Updated about 1 month ago
# 1852 Baden 9 Kreuzer Error (Black on Blue-Green) Sometime in 1851, a printer at the state printing works in the Grand Duchy of Baden loaded the wrong paper into the press. The 9 Kreuzer denomination was supposed to be printed in black ink on pink paper. The blue-green paper was meant for the 6...
1916 Standing Liberty Quarter (Type 1, Bare Breast)
Coins · Updated about 1 month ago
# 1916 Standing Liberty Quarter (Type 1, Bare Breast) In late 1916, sculptor Hermon Atkins MacNeil delivered a new quarter dollar design to the United States Mint. Lady Liberty stood facing forward, holding a shield in her left hand and an olive branch in her right, a gap in a fortress wall behi...
1861 Confederate Half Dollar
Coins · Updated about 1 month ago
# 1861 Confederate Half Dollar In the spring of 1861, the Confederate States of America controlled the United States Mint in New Orleans. For a brief window, Confederate officials used the existing dies and equipment to strike coins. They produced exactly four half dollars using a specially desi...
Settlers of Catan First German Edition (1995 Die Siedler von Catan)
Collectible Toys & Games · Updated about 1 month ago
# Settlers of Catan First German Edition (1995 Die Siedler von Catan) In 1995, a German dental technician named Klaus Teuber published a board game through Franckh-Kosmos Verlag that would fundamentally change how the world thinks about tabletop gaming. Die Siedler von Catan sold 400,000 copies ...
C.F. Martin 000-45 Pre-War Guitar (1933-1942)
Musical Instruments · Updated about 1 month ago
# C.F. Martin 000-45 Pre-War Guitar (1933-1942) Only 123 of them were ever built. Between 1933 and 1942, the C.F. Martin Guitar Company in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, produced what many luthiers and players consider the finest acoustic guitars ever made: the 000-45 with a 14-fret neck joint. Brazili...
1999 Pokemon Base Set Shadowless Blastoise Holo #2
Trading Cards · Updated about 1 month ago
# 1999 Pokemon Base Set Shadowless Blastoise Holo #2 In the summer of 1999, American kids were tearing open booster packs of a Japanese card game most of their parents had never heard of. Pokemon had crossed the Pacific, and Wizards of the Coast was printing cards as fast as they could. The earl...
Journey into Mystery #83 Value & Price Guide
Comic Books · Updated about 1 month ago
## Journey into Mystery #83: First Appearance of Thor In 1962, Stan Lee had a problem. He had already created the strongest mortal on Earth with the Hulk, and he needed to go bigger. His solution was to skip mortals entirely and reach into Norse mythology. The result was Thor, God of Thunder, de...
Dale Chihuly Glass Sculptures Value and Price Guide
Antiques & Decorative Arts · Updated about 1 month ago
# Dale Chihuly Glass Sculptures Value and Price Guide Walk into the lobby of the Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas and look up. Covering 2,000 square feet of the ceiling is "Fiori di Como," a sprawling installation of 2,000 hand-blown glass flowers in every imaginable color. It was installed in 1998. ...
1930 Graf Zeppelin Stamps (US C13-C15) Value and Price Guide
Stamps · Updated about 1 month ago
# 1930 Graf Zeppelin Stamps (US C13-C15) Value and Price Guide In April 1930, the United States Post Office did something it would immediately regret: it issued three airmail stamps priced at 65 cents, $1.30, and $2.60. During the Great Depression. The combined face value of the set was $4.55, r...
1894-S Barber Dime Value and Price Guide
Coins · Updated about 1 month ago
# 1894-S Barber Dime Value and Price Guide Twenty-four coins. That's all the San Francisco Mint struck of the 1894-S Barber dime. Not 24,000. Not 2,400. Twenty-four. And then, for reasons nobody has ever fully explained, they stopped. Today, only nine are known to survive. The finest example sol...
2003 Yu-Gi-Oh! Tournament Black Luster Soldier Value and Price Guide
Trading Cards · Updated about 1 month ago
# 2003 Yu-Gi-Oh! Tournament Black Luster Soldier Value and Price Guide Only one exists. In 1999, Konami held the first-ever official Yu-Gi-Oh! tournament in Japan. The prize for the winner was a card that could never be bought, pulled from a pack, or reproduced: a Black Luster Soldier printed on...
Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Ref. 5402ST Value and Price Guide
Watches · Updated about 1 month ago
# Audemars Piguet Royal Oak (Ref. 5402ST) Value and Price Guide The story goes like this: it's the evening before the 1972 Basel Watch Fair, and Audemars Piguet still doesn't have a new product to show. The brand's managing director, Georges Golay, calls designer Gerald Genta in a panic. By the ...
Tales of Suspense #39 Value and Price Guide
Comic Books · Updated about 1 month ago
# Tales of Suspense #39 Value and Price Guide In March 1963, Stan Lee made a bet with himself. He wanted to create a hero that nobody should like. A wealthy arms dealer. A capitalist. A man who profited from war. If Lee could make readers care about Tony Stark, he could make readers care about a...