Hake's Auction #212 Now Online-Negro & Cuban League Rarities, MLB Items & More.

[Hake's Auctions]

Hake’s Americana & Collectibles Auction #212 Now Online And Open For Bidding at www.hakes.com.

The auction closes July 15-17, 2014. In addition to baseball items, there are vintage collectibles in over 200 collecting categories, with a total of 2,633 items up for bid.

Hake's has been the premier source for Pop Culture and Americana since 1967 and in recent years has offered some of the rarest and most sought after baseball items including those pertaining to the Cuban and Negro Leagues, with many coming from the legendary Richard Merkin Collection.

Merkin Collection highlights this auction include: SGC-graded Cuban cards from the following sets: 1910 Punch Cigarros, 1923-24 Billiken, 1924 Tomas Gutierrez, 1924-25 Aguilitas.

Other Merkin items include: 1908 St. Paul Colored Gophers RPPC w/Chappie Johnson, c. mid-1920s Homestead Grays team photo w/Cum Posey, c. 1943 Coop Papa Bell Homestead Grays photo, 1946 Satchel Paige’s All Stars team photo w/Hilton Smith and other Negro League legends, 1924 London Tecumsehs team photo w/Charlie Gehringer, 1924 Walter Johnson barnstorming team photo w/Lou Gehrig, Joe Dimaggio signed Japanese baseball magazine, and more.

Other baseball highlights include:

1932 Doble Aguila Martin Dihigo card SGC 60 EX 5- the highest graded Dihigo example from this set.

Other SGC-graded cards for sets: T205, T206, 1933 Goudey, 1955 Topps and more.

A 1907 Manitowoc RPPC w/Negro League star George Wilson, Satchel Paige signed HOF PC, Signed Goudey cards for Waite Hoyt and Bill Dickey, 1888 Sporting Times New York Giants cabinet card, Walter Johnson boxed game, baseball buttons from the following sets: 1898 Pepsin, 1910-11 Sweet Caporal, 1922-23 Kolb’s Mothers Bread and others.

This is just a sampling of the baseball material offered in this auction, and in addition to this, there are items for other sports, non-sport gum card & related and so much more.

Every Hake’s auction covers the widest range of Pop Culture and Americana offered at a single time by any auction house.

Contact Heather for a complimentary copy of the 400 page full color catalog at 866-404-9800 ext. 1612.

The auction is now online and open for bidding at www.hakes.com and closes July 15-17, 2014.

[Leon]

Good luck in the Auction Alex. Thanks for letting Net54baseball help you get the word out too!!

[Hake's Auctions]

Thanks Leon.

Friendly reminder- The auction begins closing tomorrow July 15th.