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Posted By: hankron

Behrod, my opinion is that you should buy a copy of the catalogs for the 1999 Sotheby's Auction of the Barry Halper Collection. This was a famous auction of a wide range of super high-end super expensive early baseball memorabilia, and the fully illustrated catalogs are available at ebay and amazon.com. Having bought the catalog, you should feel free to ask the board "What's this?" and "What can you say about that?" I promise you that you will be entertained and awed by the contents on the catalogs, and will get a view of the wide scope of baseball memorabilia.

A friend was looking through my copy and was awed by the high prices. I pointed out that he was looking at the starting bids.

It is also interesting as a few of the items in the auction are now considered to be fakes.