Anyone ever heard of the Shigley collection?

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Posted By: George Dreher

Anybody ever heard of a professor named Shigley from Michigan who was supposed to have been an "Indiana Jones" type world traveler and owned one of the largest baseball/tobacco card collections ever known? I read about the guy in one of the first Tuff Stuff magazines back in the early 80s. As I recall, it said he also collected artifacts, coins, stamps and weird stuff like locks of hair (George Washington, etc.) The reason I'm asking is that a friend from Pennsylvania emailed me and said that the guy's grandson is going to be selling the baseball card collection one card at a time on eBay and the cards were never graded and will be sold raw. Anyone know something about this?
I think I'll be keeping a close eye on eBay

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Posted By: Cobby33

Maybe PSA should pedigree them the "Mr. S" collection.

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Posted By: George Dreher

Yes, maybe if I indicate the collection's pedigree, PSA might list it on the slab? It would be nice to have a copy of the old Tuff Stuff magazine the article appeared in. If anyone has the back issue, I would be willing to pay $20 for it. I have already located the grandson's auctions and am looking forward to an exciting auction year online.

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Posted By: Russ Bright

great... whet our whistles and keep the secret...

I hope you get something nice, we'll be looking for this seller too!

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Posted By: Dave

If this is the same prof. Shigley my father knows ....then it's Joseph Shigley. He was an Engineering professor at U.M. My father is in the same field, and met him while giving lectures.
I didn't think the selling of some of his collection was a secret....I remember reading about it several months ago on the internet before I joined this forum. The auctions aren't exactly in hidden categories either.

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Posted By: George Dreher

According to the email I got from my buddy in Pennsylvania, the grandfather's name was H.K. Shigley, born and lived in Michigan and he was a professor at Ohio State University in the 1920s before resigning his job at OSU to travel all over the world. The guy was a multi-millionaire collector of everything. I would venture to guess that he was related to the professor you mentioned. Does Joseph Shigley still teach? Supposedly there are thousands of raw vintage cards in the collection.
Also, the auctions won't be hard to find for anyone who browses the pre-1930 non-graded section of eBay. The seller only has one card listed right now, so nothing to get excited about yet.