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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Pinbacks are one of the great untapped areas of baseball memorabilia collecting....very little literature on the subject exists and there are no websites that I'm aware of that focus on pinbacks. How nice would it be to have a website to go to that would tell us right away which pins are legit, which are fantasy and which are repros?

Muchinsky's book is nice, but it is more of a coffee table book than a source for information. I do not have Ted Hake's book and it is difficult to come by...I did recently sell one of my pins to his co-author Roger Steckler and I asked him about a new book and he said he has no plans to do one. Steckler had recently sold off the bulk of his collection in a Random Treasures auction last year and it kind of surprised me when he won one of my pinbacks on ebay. I guess you never can fully get rid of the collecting bug.

And thanks to Rob for chiming in....and also confirming what I had suspected regarding those celluloid pencil clips in the Sotheby's auction.