Pele cards

[mrreality68]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

Well, it varies. Here are samples of some of the higher pop, more widely collected cards:

The 1958 Alifabolaget 'rookie': a PSA 5 was $4100 in 2019 and $48,000 a month ago.

1958 Rekord 'rookie': in 2016 a 4 was under $300. Last week a 3 went for $1899.

1959 Heinerle: 2018, 4.5 $460; 12/22 a 3 went for $1425

1964 Panini Calciatore: 4/17 $78 for a 7; 1/22 $830 for a 6

1971 Barratt: 2017 $25-30 for an 8; 10/22 $327 for an 8

Some cards and some higher grades have gone up even more as a % but this gives you some idea. Suffice it to say that if you bought Pele cards several years ago, you are a very happy camper today.

Thanks appreciate the info and education. There are some great cards out there of Pele. Now with his passing a renewed interest and a spike in prices.
Amazing so many in the forum had prior.
I never got into non baseball cards but wow

[Ulidia]

Originally Posted by mrreality68

Thanks appreciate the info and education. There are some great cards out there of Pele. Now with his passing a renewed interest and a spike in prices.

A type of item that has recently being seeing a spike in prices are photos of Pele.

PWCC sold a snapshot of Pele for over $2k recently and another auction house has another photo of his at around a similar price already with quite a few days left to run, alongside a Type II photo from the 1970s which is already over $400.

These may not seem like large prices compared to what high quality vintage baseball photos can attract but the increase in value is very significant. Less than a decade ago, it was possible to buy original photos of Pele from the late 1950s for very low sums (maybe $10 to $30).


I bought various items from the Pele estate sale that was held by Juliens Auctions in 2016. His entire collection was sold, including his 1958, 1962 and 1970 World Cup medals. In hindsight, the prices appear low. For example, his 1958 World Cup winner medal sold for £187.5k (less than $230k).

[Seven]

Thanks for all the informative information, everyone. The run up on everything the past few years has been wild, Pele obviously, no exception to that.

[Peter_Spaeth]

The Monty Gum is a horror. IMO of course.

[Jeff1970Red]

58 Aquas

[esehombre]

Some early issues although i would hesitate to call any of them rookies - What an ambassador, what a loss

[MisterMPG]

I have this rookie trade card / postcard very very rare from 1958.
I want to sell this with other material of Pelè.
Obviously the price is not too low..

You can see better here: https://www.pelecollector.com/1958-os-desportos.html