This installment of the Pop Culture Rewind features over 200 lots worth of trading cards and sports memorabilia! The star of the show is a massive selection of Pokemon cards, including both rarer single cards and collection-starting groups. There’s also a nice collection of Magic: The Gathering cards that includes some artist-signed cards. Trading card…
Graded cards are considered to be the gold standard in trading card collector circles. Grading your cards is the only way to ensure best market value. Why? Let your pals at Back to the Past explain! Trading Cards Are Fragile, Graded Cards Are Not Trading cards, particularly older ones, are not printed on the highest…
Here’s a hypothetical: you have two boxes of 90s era baseball trading cards. One is a factory sealed case of packs, 24 packs of six cards each. No part of this box has been opened to the air since it left the factory decades ago. The other is a plain white storage box containing 144…
Nearly 400 lots worth of collectible trading cards! The bulk of this session is comprised of Trading Card Game cards from Pokemon, Magic The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Overpower, Versus System, and more. That includes a mixture of single cards, sealed booster packs, and starter box sets. This collection also includes a bunch of non-sports trading cards…
Welcome back to Hammer Drops! Every Wednesday, your pals at Back to the Past share our wealth of collectibles sales experience with you using examples from recent auctions as illustration. This week is no different, with us taking a look at the world of sports trading cards and what makes them valuable. We’ll be using…
Welcome back to Hammer Drops, where we look at the hows and whys of realized prices! Today, we’re looking ahead to this weekend’s Rockin’ Around the Clock: 50s and 60s Sports Cards & Comics auction. Specifically, we’re looking to Lot #301 – a 1961 Wilt Chamberlain rookie card PSA graded 5. We’ll be discussing why,…
Hello all, and welcome back to Consigned, Cool, & Collected! We’re still counting down to our October 2nd Rockin’ Round The Clock auction session, and this week’s installment has us looking at legendary baseball player “Hammerin’” Hank Aaron! Hank was one of the best to ever play the game. Sad to say, he passed away…
Welcome back to Consigned, Cool, & Collected, where we here at Back to the Past stop to appreciate the cool stuff whizzing by us every day. Today, we’re looking at some lots from our upcoming Rockin’ Around the Clock: 50’s & 60’s Cards, Comics, and Toys auction session, specifically lots #97, 224, and 293. Each…
Welcome back to Hammer Drops, where Back to the Past shares tips from our many, many years of hard-earned collectibles experience! Today, we’re tackling a topic that’s come to some prominence in the last year: having collectibles graded. The Current Events The heights of the Coronavirus pandemic last year lead to a lot of people…
Welcome, you’ve found your way to a new Fabulous Find and this week I’ve pulled out my collection of 1975 Topps Marvel Stickers. This set wasn’t the first Marvel card/sticker sets, but it was the first one I bought. There was an earlier card set from Donruss that came out in 1966 and then the…