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1972 Topps Julius Erving #195 Value & Price Guide
Sports Cards · Updated about 1 month ago
Before Michael Jordan, before LeBron James, before anyone had a shoe deal or a signature line, there was Julius Erving. Dr. J didn't just play basketball. He reinvented it. He turned the act of dunking into art. He played above the rim when everyone else was stuck on the ground. And in 1972, Topp...
1915 Cracker Jack Joe Jackson #103 Value & Price Guide
Sports Cards · Updated about 1 month ago
Before the Black Sox Scandal, before the lifetime ban, before the decades of controversy over his Hall of Fame eligibility, Shoeless Joe Jackson was simply the greatest natural hitter anyone had ever seen. Babe Ruth said he modeled his swing after Jackson's. Ty Cobb called him the finest natural ...
1918 2-Cent Offset Printing Error (US) Value & Price Guide
Stamps · Updated about 1 month ago
In 1918, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington, D.C. was running at full capacity. World War I had created enormous demand for stamps, bonds, and currency. The presses were working overtime, and the pressure to keep up with demand led to quality control issues. Among the most collect...
1851 $50 Augustus Humbert Slug Value & Price Guide
Coins · Updated about 1 month ago
During the California Gold Rush, there wasn't enough federal coinage to support the booming economy. Miners had gold dust but no way to turn it into money that merchants would accept at standardized values. In 1851, the United States Assay Office in San Francisco, under Assayer Augustus Humbert, ...
1792 Half Disme Value & Price Guide
Coins · Updated about 1 month ago
In the basement of a saw maker's shop in Philadelphia, sometime around July 1792, the first coins were struck under the authority of the United States government. They were half dismes (pronounced "half deems"), tiny silver coins worth five cents. George Washington himself may have supplied the s...
1907 Rolled Edge Indian Eagle ($10) Value & Price Guide
Coins · Updated about 1 month ago
In 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt decided that American coinage was ugly. He recruited Augustus Saint-Gaudens, the greatest sculptor in America, to redesign the nation's gold coins. Saint-Gaudens created two new designs: the soaring Liberty for the double eagle ($20) and a Native American chi...
Newcomb College Pottery Value & Price Guide
Antiques & Decorative Arts · Updated about 1 month ago
Between 1895 and 1940, young women at Sophie Newcomb Memorial College in New Orleans created some of the most beautiful art pottery ever produced in America. Each piece was hand-thrown, hand-carved, and hand-decorated with motifs drawn from the flora and landscape of the American South: live oaks...
Gretsch 6120 Chet Atkins (1955-1959) Value & Price Guide
Musical Instruments · Updated about 1 month ago
In 1954, Gretsch struck a deal with country guitar legend Chet Atkins to put his name on a hollow-body electric guitar. The result was the Model 6120, a Western Orange-finished beauty with a horseshoe-shaped headstock inlay, cactus fretboard markers, and a Bigsby vibrato tailpiece. It debuted in ...
Alpha Time Walk (Magic: The Gathering) Value & Price Guide
Trading Cards · Updated about 1 month ago
For two blue mana, you get an extra turn. That's it. That's the card. Time Walk is one sentence of rules text and one of the most powerful spells ever printed in Magic: The Gathering. It was part of the original Alpha set released in August 1993, one of nine cards so overpowered they became known...
Breitling Navitimer Ref. 806 (1950s) Value & Price Guide
Watches · Updated about 1 month ago
In 1952, Breitling introduced a chronograph wristwatch with a circular slide rule built into the rotating bezel. Pilots could use it to calculate fuel consumption, rate of climb, airspeed conversions, and multiplication and division problems without ever taking their hands off the controls. They ...
Playmobil 1974 Original Figures Value & Price Guide
Toys & Figures · Updated about 1 month ago
In 1974, a German toy company called Geobra Brandstatter introduced three small plastic figures at the Nuremberg Toy Fair: a knight, a construction worker, and a Native American figure. Each stood 7.5 centimeters tall, had a simple smiling face, and could hold accessories in its distinctive C-sha...
Radiohead OK Computer First UK Pressing Value & Price Guide
Vinyl Records · Updated about 1 month ago
In June 1997, Radiohead released OK Computer and reset the boundaries of what a rock album could sound like. Paranoid Android, Karma Police, No Surprises, Lucky, and Let Down arrived as a single, cohesive statement about technology, alienation, and the crushing weight of modern life. Critics call...
Iron Man #1 (1968) Value & Price Guide
Comic Books · Updated about 1 month ago
Tony Stark first appeared in Tales of Suspense #39 in 1963, but he didn't get his own title until May 1968. Iron Man #1 picks up directly from Tales of Suspense #99, continuing the numbering with a new name and a new commitment to giving Marvel's armored Avenger his own stage. The cover, drawn by...
Captain America Comics #1 (1941) Value & Price Guide
Comic Books · Updated about 1 month ago
The cover of Captain America Comics #1 shows a man in a star-spangled costume punching Adolf Hitler in the jaw. The issue hit newsstands in December 1940, a full year before the United States entered World War II. Joe Simon and Jack Kirby created Captain America as a deliberate political statemen...
1985 Topps Mark McGwire #401 Value & Price Guide
Sports Cards · Updated about 1 month ago
In the summer of 1984, a 20-year-old first baseman from USC named Mark McGwire helped lead Team USA to a silver medal at the Olympics in Los Angeles. Topps put him on card #401 in their 1985 set, labeled '1984 USA Baseball Team.' Nobody knew it yet, but they were looking at the rookie card of the...
1969 Topps Reggie Jackson #260 Value & Price Guide
Sports Cards · Updated about 1 month ago
On October 18, 1977, Reggie Jackson stepped to the plate at Yankee Stadium in Game 6 of the World Series and hit three home runs on three consecutive pitches from three different Dodgers pitchers. The crowd chanted his name. A candy bar already bore it. And somewhere in a shoebox, in a closet, in...
1910 T206 Sherry Magie (Magee) Error Value & Price Guide
Sports Cards · Updated about 1 month ago
Sherry Magee was one of the best hitters in baseball during the Dead Ball Era. He led the National League in batting average, RBI, and slugging percentage. He hit over .300 five times across a 16-year career. And the American Tobacco Company misspelled his name on what became one of the most valu...
1918 Inverted Jenny C3a: The $2 Million Stamp Error Value & Price Guide
Stamps · Updated about 1 month ago
On May 14, 1918, a stamp collector named William T. Robey walked into the New York Avenue post office in Washington, D.C., and bought a sheet of 100 stamps. He paid $24. The stamps were the brand-new 24-cent airmail issue (Scott C3), featuring a Curtiss JN-4 biplane, commonly known as a Jenny. Bu...
1845 Basel Dove Stamp (Basler Taube) Value & Price Guide
Stamps · Updated about 1 month ago
On July 1, 1845, the Swiss canton of Basel issued its first and only postage stamp. It depicted a white dove carrying a letter in its beak, printed in three colors on an embossed background. The Basel Dove, known locally as the Basler Dybli or Basler Taube, was the world's first tricolor stamp an...
1776 Continental Dollar Value & Price Guide
Coins · Updated about 1 month ago
In 1776, while the Continental Congress was debating independence and George Washington was trying to hold an army together, someone authorized the striking of a coin. It bore the word FUGIO (Latin for "I fly," referring to time), a sundial, the date 1776, and the motto MIND YOUR BUSINESS. On the...
1936-D 3½ Legs Buffalo Nickel Value & Price Guide
Coins · Updated about 1 month ago
Everyone knows the 1937-D Three-Legged Buffalo Nickel. It is one of the most famous error coins in American numismatics. What fewer people know is that the Denver Mint had the same problem a year earlier. The 1936-D Buffalo Nickel features its own die-polishing variety where the buffalo's front r...
1870-S $3 Gold Princess Value & Price Guide
Coins · Updated about 1 month ago
Only one confirmed example exists. It sits in a museum. Nobody is entirely sure how many were originally struck. The 1870-S $3 Gold Princess is one of the most mysterious and valuable coins in American numismatics, a coin so rare that it transcends collecting and enters the realm of national trea...
BattleDroids / BattleTech First Edition (1984 FASA) Value & Price Guide
Collectible Toys & Games · Updated about 1 month ago
In 1984, a small Chicago-based company called FASA Corporation published a tabletop wargame about giant walking war machines. They called it BattleDroids. Within months, they received a cease-and-desist letter from Lucasfilm, which held the trademark on the word "droid" from the Star Wars films. ...
Roseville Pottery Futura Line (1928) Value & Price Guide
Antiques & Decorative Arts · Updated about 1 month ago
In 1928, the Roseville Pottery Company of Zanesville, Ohio, did something no one expected from a mid-market American pottery firm. They released a line of vases, jardinieres, and wall pockets in shapes that looked like they belonged in a Fritz Lang film. Angular, geometric, aggressively modern. T...
Fender Precision Bass (1951-1957 Slab Body) Value & Price Guide
Musical Instruments · Updated about 1 month ago
Before 1951, every bass player in the world played an upright acoustic instrument. You could not hear them without a microphone. You could not fret notes with any precision. Then Leo Fender built a solid-body electric bass guitar with frets, and everything changed. The Fender Precision Bass was n...