Memory Lane, Inc.
April 13, 2007
1951 Bowman #305 Willie Mays Rookie Card PSA 9
Starting Bid: $10,000
Price Fetched: $79,500
Another example of how condition, rarity and historic importance come together to part a baseball card collector from his money. Because baseball cards were printed in such quantities, it’s condition, condition, condition that makes all the difference. Here’s how […]

Private Sale
Honus Wagner near-mint T206 tobacco card
Reported price: $2.35 million
To most people, it’s just a little piece of cardboard, only 1-1/8 x 2-5/8 inches, encased in an ugly plastic slab. A little piece of 98-year-old cardboard with a colorful picture of an old-timey baseball player.
But to serious baseball card collectors, it’s an icon worthy […]

Borgs be damned! When it came to the Star Trek memorabilia sale at Christies, resistance was futile. Fans set paddles to “bid.”
To mark the 40th anniversary of the cult TV show’s debut, Christie’s held the first official auction of Star Trek items last weekend, all from the CBS Paramount Television Studios vaults. The three-day […]

She was lithe, lean and exotic—part hippie chick, part Vampira, part glamour puss. She had six-pack abs before the phrase even existed. And best of all, she could laugh at herself. Which made her the perfect muse—and most magnificent model—for flashy-trashy Hollywood fashion designer Bob Mackie. For Cher, he dreamed up the most audaciously beaded, […]

Christie’s Celebrity Memorabilia
June 22
Want to know what a good hair day feels like? Ask Andy Warhol’s nephew, Jeffrey Warhola, who recently consigned a handful of his uncle’s items to the June 22nd celeb memorabilia sale at Christie’s—most notably, one of the signature silver hairpieces that the pop art icon used to plop rakishly on his […]

NEW YORK - James Comisar’s collecting passion started when he was 12. As president of The Gong Show fan club, he used to drag his dad to marathon Saturday tapings of the tongue-in-cheek TV talent show and, afterward, he would fish cue cards out of the dumpster behind the studio. (Dad made him get […]