Merkin Collection - Part 2?

[bcbgcbrcb]

For those of us Negro League baseball card and memorabilia collectors, pickings have been pretty slim since the Richard Merkin collection wound down after several years of non-stop goodies auctioned by Hake's Americana from around 2010-15. While I was fortunate enough to pick up a few items over the years, most ended up out of my reach as the Negro League market was really exploding at the time.

Well, it looks like the Merkin collection is not finished after all. If you check out the Hake's website, you will find a number of Cuban baseball cards from the 1920's along with vintage photos and other memorabilia. Hopefully, this is just the start with lots more to come. Outside of REA & RMY and a few big ticket items from Heritage, there hasn't been a whole lot of Negro League material to choose from over the past few years.

[brianp-beme]

Changed my comment when I went to auction and saw that all the items have TPG labels with Richard Merkin Collection.

Brian

[barrysloate]

Richard passed away a decade ago, and there hasn't been any of his collection offered in maybe five years. What could be the explanation for this?

[RedsFan1941]

phil about 5 years ago I was talking to one of the guys at hakes and he mentioned you doing some work for them in the area of negro league material. is this still the case?

[triwak]

Interesting stuff! It looks like perhaps, all of the Negro League HOFers have been auctioned off already. But who knows? Maybe more to come...

[Scocs]

I believe all the Negro League HOFer and near HOFer cards were auctioned off between 2011-2012. At least the 1920s material like Billiken, Tomas Gutierrez, Nacionales, and Aguilitas baseball cards...