That's quite the collection. What's the market like these days for those?

https://hindmanauctions.com/auctions/2075-sports-memorabilia

My dads card auction went live this week. If you type Orzoff into the search you can see all his cards. His is the featured collection of the auction.


Pretty cool to browse and see his amazing and historic collection. or if you have some spare cash get yourself a Mickey Mantle rookie.

https://hindmanauctions.com/auctions/2075-sports-memorabilia

My dads card auction went live this week. If you type Orzoff into the search you can see all his cards. His is the featured collection of the auction.


Pretty cool to browse and see his amazing and historic collection. or if you have some spare cash get yourself a Mickey Mantle rookie.

Who would've thought that Shake's father was also RFDC's brother in law.

That’s an awesome and remarkable collection. Really diverse is what I recognized when I scrolled through, and I didn’t even look at anything. Obvious he was a passionate collector, lots of old stuff in there that is as much art as collectible.

Just out of curiosity, when he was alive what did your dad do with such a large and varied collection? Was a lot of it on display? Was a lot of it shelved in his house for easy viewing? Was a lot of it in storage?

oh, the disappointment over a hockey player

that's cool. how does one do this? I have a bunch of old cards. what is the cut of the auctioneers?

Before he died he was collecting the T-206 (i think that’s the right name) cigarette cards. Those are the ones with the famous Honus Wagner. My dad didn’t have the Wagner, but he had a few hundred other ones. They are all on the auction as a lot, expected to fetch I think 20k.

My dad was old school. The good cards were in his closet in his study, all in binders by sets. Never got them graded. We had to get them graded for the auction so that’s why a lot of then are slabbed and graded in the auction. His Mickey Mantle rookie just sat in a binder with the other 1952 Topps cards for several decades. Pretty cool though it’s right next to Jackie Robinson in that set.

Before he died he was collecting the T-206 (i think that’s the right name) cigarette cards. Those are the ones with the famous Honus Wagner. My dad didn’t have the Wagner, but he had a few hundred other ones. They are all on the auction as a lot, expected to fetch I think 20k.

That's really cool. One of the biggest issue with graded cards is how do you view/display them. I don't have anything like the collection your father does, but I'm the same way that he is. All of my cards are in old school binders. It's fun for me to just grab a binder and flip the pages. To my that's why I collect what I do, it's part of the fun to collect, but also it's fun to have some enjoyment of them. Like what do people do with a bunch of cards in thick plastic?

What did he do with all of the helmets, jerseys, other non-card type memoribilia? Did he have a massive study? I mean you get more than 3 helmets in a room and that's a shit ton of space you're taking up.

Any Hank Greenberg or Sandy Koufax cards in there ya hook-nosed jew bastard??

this is pretty cool to watch. Added up all the bids Saturday and it was $104k already. Before the auction I was hoping to hit the 100k mark. Added them up again yesterday and up to $148k.


I was told that the real bidding doesn't even start till the final day 12/9 when all lots close one by one every 10-15 minutes. Starting to think this might end up well over 200k when it's all said and done.

nice Christmas errrr Hanukkah present for you