Folks might not know that Mickey Mantle owned a Holiday Inn hotel in Joplin, Missouri, with his friend Harold Youngman; Lodging Magazine wrote an excellent overview. The hotel…
Posts published by “John”
There are certain pictures you’ll run across quite often in the hobby, like the 1952 Topps Baseball Woolworth’s display or the 1974 Topps production line…
Here’s an incredible piece I ran across in a 2008 auction catalog that I’m desperate to find more information on (and add to the hobby…
From 1921 to the 1970s, Exhibit Supply Co. (ESCO) of Chicago, Illinois, released over 14,000 different cards. While there are numerous articles I could write…
Here’s another hobby man cave collecting goal for many of us: a 1938 Goudey Heads Up Advertising Poster, which was described as Goudey’s file copy!…
Notice anything significant about this 1915 Boston Red Sox Postcard? Yup, that’s Babe Ruth in the middle of the back row! Sotheby’s offered this piece…
In the spring of 2008, along with The Greatest Collection of Vintage Bowman and Topps Football Display Boxes, someone also consigned the most ridiculous group…