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Category: Collectibles/Memorabilia

Auction Action

For all photos, click to enlarge As you may recall, Grey Flannel Auctions and I recently put out one of our periodic “What’s It Worth?” calls, where GFA offers free …

My Very Short Career as an MLB NFT Influencer

You’ve probably heard a lot in recent months about non-fungible tokens, or NFTs — unique, blockchain-based digital assets that have become a big deal in the art world. They’ve also …

Gashouse’s Sports Catalog Collection, Vol. 2: NFL 1971

For all photos, click to enlarge A few weeks ago I showed you photos of Kevin “Gashouse” Cearfoss’s 1970 NFL merchandise catalog, the oldest item in his collection of sport …

Vintage ‘Ed-U-Card’ Game Delivers Big-League Fun

For all photos, click to enlarge [Editor’s Note: Today we have a guest entry from membership card designer Scott M.X. Turner, who’s going to tell us about a vintage sports …

My Uni-Obsessive Vintage-Shopping Weekend

For all photos, click to enlarge Good morning! Greetings from Uni Watch HQ, where I am back after spending a weekend with friends upstate. We spent a lot of Saturday …

Gashouse’s Sports Catalog Collection, Vol. 1: NFL 1970

For all photos, click to enlarge Kevin “Gashouse” Cearfoss has become something of a Uni Watch All-Star over the past year or so, first for his custom-cut 3D wooden logos, …

Some Thoughts About ‘Real,’ ‘Fake,’ and Value

Click to enlarge Good morning! Happy Canada Day to all our Canadian readers, and happy Bobby Bonilla Day to all my fellow Mets fans. The photo shown above was taken …

Early Astros Design Sketches Show What Might Have Been

Click to enlarge Judge Roy Hofheinz, the original owner of the Houston Astros, died in 1982. Nearly four decades later, a huge stash of items from his estate has come …

Auction Action

For all photos, click to enlarge As you may have noticed in the left-hand sidebar, our friends at Grey Flannel Auctions have another catalog auction in progress, so today we’re …

Auction Catalog Reveals Rare MLB Uni Gems

For all photos, click to enlarge The photo shown above is of Yankees shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh. We can tell it’s from 1918 because he’s wearing the red, white, and blue …

Tales from the Dream Shop: Restoring a Buried Treasure

For all photos, click to enlarge It’s been much too long since we’ve had a guest entry from baseball jersey restorer extraordinaire Bill Henderson, whose business, the Dream Shop, has …

Long-Lost Gas Giveaway Provides Blast from Cubbies’ Past

For all images, click to enlarge Check out this illustration showing various Cubs players who won the National League MVP Award. A great composition, and so many great uniforms! That …

A1 Steak Sauce’s 1994 NFL Trading Cards

Click to greatly enlarge Longtime Uni Watch reader/supporter Robert Brashear recently got in touch to let me know he’d found something interesting buried in a drawer: a set of 28 …

Auction Action

For all photos, click to enlarge As you may have noticed in the left-hand sidebar, our friends at Grey Flannel Auctions are running a new catalog auction. Many of the …

We Interrupt This Blog for Some Vintage Candy Bar Wrappers

For all photos, click to enlarge The photo shown above is from an amazing old scrapbook of 1930s and ’40s candy wrappers that recently appeared on eBay and was brought …