A rare 1948 Bowman Basketball uncut sheet from Mastro’s April 2007 auction raises questions about its unusual printing and whereabouts today.
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Eight pieces of 1957 Topps Football original artwork resurfaced together in Mastro’s December 2002 auction, thirteen years after Guernsey’s famous sale.
The original artwork used to create Sid Gordon’s 1953 Topps #117 card, as offered by Mastro in December 2002.
Marty Appel’s 1998 argument that Mickey Mantle ignited the baseball card hobby not once, but three different times.
A 1997 look at how Stadium Club, Finest, Bowman and Chrome helped Topps fight its way back to the top of the hobby.
A fascinating contemporary look inside Fleer as the company tried to reinvent itself, and expand the trading card market, in 1993.
In 1995, Topps thought its new D-III technology might change card collecting forever. Things didn’t exactly go according to plan.