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T
he world’s largest collectibles
auctioneer is expected to add more
than $10 million to its hobby-
topping sales fi gures August 17-18, when
more than 600 elite lots close in extended
bidding format.
Heritage will be showcasing the top
lots of this sale at the National Sports
Collectors Convention in Chicago two
weeks before bidding closes, providing
its clients an up-close-and-personal look
at lots ranging from fi ve to seven fi gures
in value.
Expected to earn the top result in the
sale is the only Lou Gehrig jersey photo-
matched to multiple games in which he
hit a home run, a road grey gamer sported
during the Yankees’ World Championship
season of 1937.
Top-tier lumber from Honus Wagner
and Mickey Mantle will tempt high-
end bat collectors, while those with a
cardboard concentration will compete for
a 1916 Famous & Barr Babe Ruth rookie
and ultra-high grade examples of the
T205 Ty Cobb, the 1933 Goudey Nap La-
joie and the 1939 Play Ball Ted Williams.
“Platinum Night has always featured
the best of the best, but this sale should
exceed the highest expectations,” said
Chris Ivy, director of Sports Auctions for
Heritage. “We could record as many as 20
six- and seven-fi gure prices in Session 1.”
The Ty Cobb Collection, a thrilling ar-
ray of personally owned items gifted to an
early teammate in the Peach’s hometown
of Royston, Georgia, will stand as one of
2019’s most signifi cant “fi nds,” provid-
ing such fresh-to-the-hobby material as
Cobb’s personal Carl Horner portrait
photograph, the image found on a wide
array of early trading cards including the
famous T206.
Heritage also will widen its scope
with its largest presentation of modern
trading cards, including one-of-one in-
serts from basketball’s greatest names of
the past 30 years: Michael Jordan
and LeBron James.
Other highlights include:
- 1953 Ty Cobb single-signed
baseball, PSA/DNA Gem Mint
10: estimated $300,000 – up
- 1868 “Clipper Prize” Medal
presented to George Wright, theear
liest and most signifi cant 19th centu
baseball award known: $200,000–
- Early to mid-1930’s Lou Gehri
game worn New York Yankees cap,
MEARS Authentic: $200,000 – up
- 1978-79 President Barack Obama
game worn Punahou High School basket-
ball jersey: $100,000 - up
- The only known Babe Ruth & Ty
Cobb dual-signed photograph: $100,000
- up
- 1889 Cap Anson and Buck Ewing
“Burke Ale” Beer advertising poster (just
arrived in United States after 13 decades
in Ireland) : est. $100,000 - up
- 1909-11 T206 Ty Cobb portrait
with red background featuring Ty Cobb:
$100,000 – up
- 1933 Goudey Baseball uncut sheet
of 24 cards: $60,000 - up
- 1966 Muhammad Ali fi ght-worn
gloves from George Chuvalo I bout:
$60,000 – up
- 2008 Eli Manning Super Bowl XLII
game worn New York Giants helmet:
$40,000 – up ◆
Elite lots
Lou Gehrig’s jersey, Honus Wagner’s bat, Babe Ruth
rookie card highlight Heritage’s current auction
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