Remembering the Hull Collection

[wicker56]

Adam,

I had actually forgotten about your soapbox entries regarding the Hull dispersal. I have to say that it brought back a lot of memories, reading it again just now.

I can’t imagine the number of views that I accumulated over the years on the Heritage site, viewing this collection. It truly was an amazing collection.

[Jerry G]

I didn't have a clue who/what the Hull Collection was at time of this auction. I assumed it wasn't Brett or Bobby. 1951 Topps Ringside is my second favorite boxing set behind the T9 Turkey Reds.

I really enjoy the Jersey Joe card. Just a nice classic pose. Solid background really makes it pop. Posted Ray Miller because I heard that he has a relative that frequents this site.

I ended up with 13 Hull Collection Ringside SGC's.

[RCMcKenzie]

Nice cards, Jerry. Thanks, Chad and Adam. I was taking a year and a half long break around 2006-2008, and missed these auctions. It seems that often when I see a rare card at auction, it resides in a Hull holder.

[Exhibitman]

The next great liquidation after Hull was when the Dreiers sold off their stuff with Legendary. They were among the collectors who went all-in at the Hull auctions. Unfortunately, convicted felon Doug Allen's downfall at Legendary ultimately took the records of that sale into liquidation, with Goldin buying the records and taking them out of the publicly available realm.



Following that was the estate of Harry Shaffer. Harry was a pioneering boxing memorabilia dealer, very old-school, and had an astounding uncatalogued inventory. The stuff that came out of his estate (which MEARS sold), was just amazing. He had the only R340 Dempsey, for example:



Unfortunately, MEARS did not do a good job of cataloguing what was there: the vast majority of the estate was blown out in a couple of tractor-trailer-sized random lots.

The most recent one was with Lelands in 2018 when longtime boxing collector Jim Heffron liquidated his collection. Lots of rare cards, many from the Hull Collection.

[oldjudge]

A rarity