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A Baseball Card for Ten Million?

Relax, nothing has topped the T206 Honus Wagner as the world’s most expensive baseball card, but there is a really sweet card sought after by many collectors – the 1911 T212 Obak tobacco card depicting Ten Million. That’s right! His name is Ten Million. How awesome is that? Baseball is full of great names and […]

Graded Baseball Cards as an Estate Planning Tool

Your baseball card collection obviously has sentimental value. If it is like most serious collections it probably has a substantial monetary value as well. Unfortunately, this value is sometimes lost to heirs and other family members who are left to deal with an estate. We have all heard the stories about cards being unceremoniously dumped […]

How to Spot Counterfeit T206 Tobacco Cards – Part I FONT

The famous T206 tobacco card set is now over 100 years old. It seems nearly as long that people have been counterfeiting the popular white border set. The thin stock lends itself to home printing and the many valuable and highly collected cards in the set mean that scams will be attempted for years to […]