August 8th, 2008
My Baseball Story
I love this game. It has been half a century since I started to fall in love with baseball. The romance is still going strong. Playing, coaching, watching, listening, and reading about baseball has been part of my every day life since I was 15 years old. Even in the dead of winter when baseball i…
August 5th, 2008
Collecting Sports Jerseys
Collecting sports memorabilia is a source of joy for many game enthusiasts, and sports jerseys are among the most popular memorabilia collected by enthusiasts around the world.
Why is sport jersey collecting so popular? One reason is that the jersey is intimately connected to the player who…
August 2nd, 2008
Piscatorial Man’o'War
As you know from my last article poaching in 18th centuries England had been successful due in some part to the Belly Pirn but as goes the way of some good things the authorities got wise to it so it became less effective and left even the most innocent under suspicion and liable to a thorough hu…
July 30th, 2008
Getting Too Old Or Too Tired To Play Sports Start Collecting Instead
I played football from the age of eight years old until age twenty and then continued in bodybuilding to this day at the age of 45. Even though I look younger than my age and younger guys approach me all the time to play rugby or sandlot football my knees and hips just can’t take the abuse anymo…
July 27th, 2008
Your Junk is Another Person’s Gold
Saving money can be quite hard to do if you are on a tight budget, but all of us can do it very simply by selling the things that are cluttering up our homes and which we no longer need. I am fairly sure that most of us, if asked, would like some extra cash to help pay off a loan or other debt, o…
July 24th, 2008
Preserving the Past and Present for the Future
Preserving your personal keepsakes, collectables and family history
In most homes, we probably all have tucked away a huge assortment of items that we choose to keep for one reason or another. These items may be valuable or they may hold wonderful memories and are priceless family treasures…
July 21st, 2008
Focus Can Be Very Important for Collectors
Collecting in the US has spread out to so many areas that it can be difficult to keep focus on creating a great collection. And anybody who is on the internet knows ANY piece is available somewhere and many times, EVERYWHERE. Cross-collectibles have shown up in every venue, as well. If you collec…
July 18th, 2008
Collecting Antiques - The Peoples Art Part 2
In part one of this series of articles we discussed the growth in the marketability of antique brand images and how the apparent extinction of the brand itself can lead to the rapid rise of the marketability of the antique value of the packaging itself.
Posters were very much in the vanguar…
July 15th, 2008
Sports Memorabilia
There is a huge interest in sport memorabilia, and sports-related items include signed commemorative photos, baseballs, footballs, basketballs, pucks and jerseys. A Google search of companies hawking these items comes up with almost 5 million businesses!
Some of the items on offer cost thou…
July 12th, 2008
My Prize Piece of Baseball Memorabilia
Back in the day …
I used to deal in baseball cards, and some memorabilia in the mid to late 1980’s. Through an old client I had the opportunity to sell a very rare piece of baseball lore. The piece that I was fondest of was a rare document signed by Harry Wright. A founding father of the…