A collection of over 1,400 tobacco cards featuring Hall of Fame baseball players from 1909-1911 will be sold by an auction house in Maine early next year. The cards, called “T206” cards, were kept by the grandchildren of a Brooklyn man who began smoking at age 19, and kept every card he got in a box. Ten of […]
A Super Price for Superman
Posted on August 25th, 2014 by Joe G
Sold in West Virginia in 1938 for 10 cents, an original Superman comic was sold on eBay for $3.2 million, setting the record for the priciest comic book ever sold. After the original newsstand purchase over 70 years ago, the comic – Action Comics No. 1 – was stored in a cedar chest for forty years. When […]
These Coins are Out of This World!
Posted on August 19th, 2014 by Joe G
The Southern Sky coin series has released its third and final coin from the Royal Australian Mint. This coin, a domed $5 piece named Orion, was struck by former NASA astronaut Richard Hieb. Orion joins the first two coins in the series: Crux, released in 2012; and Pavo, released in 2013. Falling in line with the same […]
Rio Tinto’s Rare Red Diamonds
Posted on August 15th, 2014 by Joe G
Each year, Rio Tinto, the second largest diamond mining company in the world, hosts the Argyle Pink Diamonds Tender. This year, the collection consists of 55 diamonds – 51 pink and purplish red diamonds, and four Fancy Red diamonds. Fancy Red diamonds are extremely rare. So rare, that only 13 have been featured in the annual […]
The World’s Most Expensive Car?
Posted on August 12th, 2014 by Joe G
In the market for a new vehicle? A 1962 red Ferrari 250 GTO Berlinetta may become the most expensive car in the world when it is offered at auction this Thursday in Carmel, California. The coupe raced in the 1962 Tour de France Automobile race, where it placed second. Fabrizio Violati purchased it in 1965, and was […]