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This list of items as of August 20, 2021 is ordered by consumer price index inflation-adjusted value (in bold) in millions of United States dollars in 2024. [note 1]This list includes only the highest price paid for a given card and does not include separate entries for individual copies of the same card or multiple sales prices for the same copy of a card.
The Richmond, Virginia-based magazine was sold to Landmark Communications, which sold it to Krause Publications in 1999, publisher of the competing Sports Cards Magazine. The two magazines' content merged in 2000, taking the 'Tuff Stuff' name. The magazine took on the F+W Publications Inc. label after that company obtained Krause in 2002. [4]
The American Card Catalog: The Standard Guide on All Collected Cards and Their Values is a reference book for American trading cards produced before 1951, compiled by Jefferson Burdick. [1] Some collectors regard the book as the most important in the history of collectible cards.
Price guides are used mostly to list the prices of different baseball cards in many different conditions. One of the most famous price guides is the Beckett price guide series. The Beckett price guide is a graded card price guide, which means it is graded by a 1–10 scale, one being the lowest possible score and ten the highest.
2. Push Cart Pete. Could be worth: $9,200 This creepy dude from the '30s is actually one of the rarest toys you can find, and one of the first products from the then-new company Fisher Price.
James Beckett was a statistics professor before launching Beckett Media. [3] In the 1970s, Beckett introduced some of the initial price guides for the baseball card industry, providing more detailed information on specific card prices compared to the newsletters that collectors were accustomed to. [4]
Spalding (Official) Baseball Guide was available 1870s to 1941. The Baseball Guide was published by A. G. Spalding & Bros. 1870s to 1893, and Spalding Athletic Library from 1894 until 1941. [67] [68] Henry Chadwick, through the Spalding Athletic Library collection, added the "Technical Terms of Base Ball" in 1897. [69] [70] [71]
The guide was created in response to a common problem of collectors experiencing difficulty discovering the value of their coins held. Today, the Coin Guide is Canada's oldest continuously published buying guide and serves as a concise reference on the buying prices dealers will pay for coins. [20] The Coin Guide is currently in its 54th edition.