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Rock and roll and pinball are two peas in a pod. When pinball hit its stride in the 1970s, companies pined to create machines based off of popular musicians of the time -- KISS and Elton John both have machines from that era. But one band has...
“Take me out to the ball game. Take me out to the crowd. Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jacks…” At one point Cracker Jack snacks were so popular, they became immortalized in an iconic Americana song. In 1914 and 1915, Cracker Jack inserted baseball...
In early 2021, an Alpha Black Lotus graded at a PSA gem mint 10 sold at auction for just over half a million dollars. Magic: The Gathering started with trading cards, but has since crossed over to novels, online games, a soon to be arriving Netflix series,...
Today, baseball cards are as innocuous as a glass of lemonade on a warm summer afternoon. Tearing into a pack of cards can open the flood gates of nostalgia. And if only briefly, brings us back to a simpler time. Let's talk about a sometimes-forgotten collectible... cigarette...
Welcome back to our third class in Sports Card Collecting and Speculation 101! Sensing that there are some itches out there to pick up some sports cards RIGHT NOW, we are going to focus on our first set! By the end...
When considering sports collectibles, the first things that often come to mind are jerseys, cards, and autographed balls, but there is another niche category… Sports Illustrated magazines. The next time you go hunting for comic books in a garage sale and see a stack of magazines nearby,...
Hold onto your lightsabers folks, you about to enter a world that defies all logic: movie collectibles. There are few movie franchises as big as Star Wars. It has continued to have a huge impact on our pop culture over the past 40 years. The genre spawned...
Silver Age Comics are RED HOT right now! Nothing better than looking at a classic cover of a high-grade Silver Aged issue in your hand; especially when the comic has that high gloss finish, white background, popping colors, and no chipping! Flip the comic over, and you...
If collecting physical stock certificates is new to you, then this blog post is for you! Read more to learn the basics of this growing hobby. If you've made it this far, it's safe to say that you have a modicum of interest in collecting stock...
Moving away from Base Set shadow and shadowless Pokémon cards, in this article we look at the most recent sales of PSA/CGC 10s of the Team Rocket Unlimited set. Sets that have the name "Unlimited" attached to them indicate that they are not 1st Edition...