The Victor Wembanyama Rookie of the Year card offered via Topps NOW is now the highest selling card ever sold in the platform’s nine-year history. Topps says customers bought 113,777 copies in a 72-hour period.
The Wembanyama card surpassed the previous print run record set by a Shohei Ohtani card that sold 107,541 copies.
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How hot is the market for Anthony Edwards cards? Over the last three weeks, more than 30,000 cards featuring the Minnesota Timberwolves still wet behind the ears star have sold on eBay for nearly $3 million.
Thirteen AntMan cards have sold for $10,000 or more in that time, including a 2020 National Treasures Rookie Patch Autograph numbered to 99 with a ‘10’ autograph grade from PSA that netted $30,000.
Another NT RPA graded 9.5/10 by Beckett sold for over $85,000 via Goldin last week and a rookie year game-worn jersey went for more than that.
He’s taken over the list of most watched basketball card auctions on eBay.
Edwards is in his fourth NBA season but won’t turn 23 until August. For his career, he’s averaging nearly 23 points per game and leading a team that could have an extended run in the playoffs is raising his profile to heights not seen since he entered the NBA Draft after one year at Georgia.
You can see which of his cards are attracting the most attention at the bottom of this story we wrote about him back in 2021.
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There’s a PSA 10 Walter Payton rookie card on the auction block—and its PSA 9 brother
Longtime dealer Steve Novella is offering both cards as part of a round of auctions on eBay.
The Payton cards are joined by a 1948 Yogi Berra PSA 8 and a PSA 9 Joe Montana 1981 Topps rookie in closing Tuesday, May 14.
Also up for grabs are a PSA 10 1977 Topps Dale Murphy rookie, one of only 5 1971-72 Topps Dave DeBusschere cards graded 10, a PSA 9 Jerry Rice rookie and others.
Those will end Thursday, May 16 with auctions running here.
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COMC says it has now processed 200 million items. The Redmond, WA-based consignment service that specializes in trading cards launched in 2007. It reached 100 million items in August of 2021.
In addition to buying and selling directly on its website, COMC users can have their items cross-listed to eBay. Over six million cards have sold there in the last eight years with six million more currently listed.
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Free admission is common at a lot of sports memorabilia shows. Free tables for dealers? That’s not common at all, but game-worn collectors who want to set up a table at MeiGray’s annual Expo this summer can do it for no charge.
The Expo takes place July 13 at the Raritan Valley Community College Conference Center and annually attracts collectors of game-worn and game-used gear.
In 2023, MeiGray made attendance free. This year, it’s free for collectors and dealers alike.
“Trades and sales will be welcomed and encouraged for anyone who wants to come,” the company says.
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For the 3rd straight year, Upper Deck will be the title sponsor of the NHL Draft, which will be held at Sphere in Las Vegas on June 28-29. It’s the first time the event will be held in Las Vegas and the first event televised live from Sphere.
In 2021 the NHL and the NHLPA announced long-term extensions of their licenses Upper Deck to be the exclusive licensed manufacturer of trading cards.
Upper Deck has maintained NHL and NHLPA trading card licenses since the 1990-91 season.
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Certified Collectibles Group recently bought JSA and the two entities are now starting to work together on encapsulating autographed items authenticated by JSA. Collectors can now submit autographed comics for authentication by JSA and grading and encapsulation by CGC.
According to CCG, “combined autograph authentication and grading services for comics are the first of many planned upgrades following the acquisition of JSA by CCG.”
Still to come are authentication and encapsulation for sports and non-sports cards, with magazines and other items also in the works.
CCG says “announcements will be made when more combined autograph authentication and grading services become available.”
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