The following tips come from Leighton Sheldon, Just Collect’s President. After buying his first pack of cards at eight years old, Leighton paid his way through college partially by buying and selling baseball cards. Today his company has bought and sold over $25 million worth of merchandise. Leighton's personal collecting focus is on vintage basketball cards and memorabilia. Years ago he sold his most prized basketball memorabilia possession, a 1962 photo of Wilt Chamberlain scoring his 100th point against the New York Knickerbockers, to help pay for a house. Other items in his basketball collection
With the early arrival of ESPN’s cultural phenomenon docu-series, “The Last Dance,” the market for Michael Jordan cards is absolutely on fire right now. As the world reacts on social media, and fans relive the glory of the Bulls dynasty era, collectors are buying up Jordan cards like never before. To give you some perspective, MJ prices across the board have gone up 30-300% depending on the card in just the last three months. So if you collected basketball cards in the ‘80’s, now is the time to go looking through your
Stuck inside the house? Doing some spring cleaning? If you come across your old baseball card collection; what should you do? We’ve had customers find valuable cards in their attics, inside their walls, tucked away in old bibles, jammed into cookie tins, in photo albums, glued to poster boards, in old storage units and even in trash bags. So how should you proceed when you dig up a dusty old collection? Here’s five quick tips. Take them out and look through them, appreciate their simple beauty, or just read some cool stats on
Oklahoma! Home of The Mick and the Sooner State CollectionHow many states does it take to get a collection home from Oklahoma? Unlike the eternal query of "How Many Licks Does it Take to Get to the Center of a Tootsie Pop," the world will know the answer to our question. It takes travel through eight states to get from Oklahoma to New Jersey (OK, MO, IL, IN, OH, WV, PA, and NJ). That's a lot of country to cover
Jordan Market Continues to Surge There are few athletes in the hobby that are constantly and forever in demand. Perhaps no individual personifies that like "His Airness" himself, Michael Jordan (also known simply as MJ). Jordan's Jumpman logo, even to the casual fan, is probably more synonymous with the game of basketball than Jerry West's silhouette that is the current NBA Logo. Jordan's cards, from top to bottom, have seen a significant rise in both demand and