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
Tipping the Scales What do you store your collection in? A suitcase? A shoe box? A cigar box? Grocery bags? Sandwich bags? Over the past decade, we've bought hundreds upon hundreds of collections and we've had them show up to in a wide variety of storage containers. Recently, we had a New Jersey man contact us with a small collection of cards that he had and we provided a preliminary evaluation based upon some images of the collection. While it wasn't life changing money,
The Making of a PurchaseOur saga begins with a late September email from the son-in-law of a Boston area collector that was interested in getting an assessment and valuation on a few cards in the father-in-law's collection. The initial email featured 6 cards (the image to the immediate left is the image that we received), which included a T206 Ty Cobb, 1933 Goudey Babe Ruth, 1954 Topps Hank Aaron and 1951 Bowman Willie Mays. The cards appeared to range in
Daddy Left It To Me Some families pass down good genes, some pass down wealth, some pass down fantastic recipes and some pass down collectibles. A father left his collection of baseball cards from his son and when the son was ready to capitalize on the collection, he did his research and reached out to several companies for appraisals and purchase offers. Just Collect outperformed all of the competition and in the end, was the choice of where to sell the
Road Trip versus a Road Show What determines whether Just Collect will go on the road to buy a collection? Typically, Just Collect will evaluate a collection and if the collection projects to be in the range of $20,000 or more, we will pack up and travel to see the collection in the United States, Canada and even overseas. We may even host a Road Show when we're in town. Smaller or relatively local collections will also allow Just Collect to