With all of this banter about how much people are paying for memorabilia, I thought..

[Ulidia]

The most that I paid for a single item of memorabilia was £8,000 (British pounds so equivalent of circa $12,000 to $13,000).

This was for an item of soccer memorabilia - a European Cup Winner's Medal won by Phil Neal of Liverpool in 1984. The medal was bought directly from Phil Neal in early 2001. He had previously tried to sell it at Christies but it didn't meet its reserve there.

I no longer have that item, nor was it ever my best item of memorabilia, haven't spent that sort of money on items in recent years and I am not intending on spending that sort of money again.

The most I've spent on an item of baseball memorabilia is just over $1,000. It was for a Yankees team group photo from 1924. This was purchased relatively recently. I probably overpaid but did so knowingly as it was a photo I really wanted.

[Splinte1941]

$45K for an early 40's Ted Williams game used bat. MEARS cert, the whole nine, for what it's worth.