Aside from cards, one of the most popular things to collect throughout the hobby are posters. Whether it's sports or non-sports, every collector wants a unique piece to hang on their wall that they can brag to their friends about. This week, we are proud to offer collector's an unprecedented chance to own a tobacco advertising poster, produced between 1915-1917. This group of posters that we are offering were produced by the Fatima and Piedmont cigarette companies, who were both titans of the tobacco industry. Each poster was produced with iconic images from that
Five years after his legendary performance in the 1905 World Series in which he pitched three shutouts, a feat that’s never been matched, Christy Mathewson appeared in a series of cards issued by The Sporting Life. A rival to The Sporting News, the paper offered readers the chance to trade four pennies for a set of 12 of these cards, catalogued as the 1910 M116 series. Matty was clearly one of the prizes as the first of 24 mini sets
Collectors of baseball cards have Honus Wagner. Fans of football cardboard have John Dunlop. Just Collect is excited to offer the ‘holy grail’ of football cards in this week’s listings: an 1894 Mayo’s Cut Plug John Dunlop, graded SGC 20. It’s simply one of the rarest cards in the hobby and atop the list of any serious collector of football cards. We’d normally say ‘good luck finding one’, but the fact is, we are offering one right now at what we
Like their rivals at American Tobacco, Red Sun Cigarettes used trading cards of baseball players in its products in an attempt to boost sales just over a century ago. This week, we have the rare opportunity to offer cards from a sister series to the baseball product—the 1908 T226 Red Sun boxing set. Red Sun used actual full-length photographs for this unique set, which also stands apart thanks to its unique design featuring olive green borders and a bright red ad
There may be no pre-World War II baseball card set more attractive and just plain cool looking than the T205 tobacco issue. Often lost in the shuffle behind the much more widely discussed and collected T206, this gold bordered cousin is especially stunning on those rare occasions when you find them in high grade. This week’s auction listings include two high grade T205s that are already attracting a lot of attention. They’re almost too pretty to sell, but hey, that’s what we do! Both are graded PSA 7: Fred Beck and