Father-in-Law's Fleer Many collections that Just Collect is contacted about are cards passed down from family members or family friends. Recently, we received a call from a woman from the Midwest that had been entrusted by her brother to liquidate the balance of a collection that the brother's late father-in-law had built. When the father-in-law became ill, he began selling off a very large sports card collection that he had assembled. Prior to his passing, he managed to sell everything except
Would You Be Interested? We receive numerous inquiries on a daily basis at our Somerset, NJ office. Many come via email from our website and many others come via people calling us on the telephone. The questions range from what do I have, what is it worth to are you buying? Our Just Collect staff does their very best to decipher the inquires and answer the questions as quickly as possible. We're usually able to answer most questions the same day. Some take
Collections come in all shapes and sizes. How they are stored and how they arrive is just as varied. They’ve come to us in cigar boxes, collector pages, screw-down holders and even in pretzel tins. Recently, we had a local Realtor bring us a collection that he found in the basement of a home he was helping the homeowner clean out. The collection consisted of about 2000 cards and arrived haphazardly tossed into a kitchen sized trash bag. While not the ideal means of storage or
Today we bring you this amazing 1957 Topps #17 Bob Cousy Rookie Hall of Famer Basketball Card, graded SGC 80! Cousy played point guard with the Boston Celtics from 1950 to 1963 and briefly with the Cincinnati Royals in the 1969–70 season. Cousy first demonstrated his basketball abilities while playing for his high school varsity team in his junior year. He obtained a scholarship to the College of the Holy Cross, where he led the Crusaders to berths in
If you thought last year was a lean one for basketball cards, be glad you weren’t a big hoops collector in the 1950s and 60s. Between 1950 and 1968, there was a grand total of one basketball card set issued. One. Now granted, the NBA was a distant fourth on the list of popular pro sports for much of the 1950s but it’s remarkable that no company—except for Topps one time—thought there was