Oregon Trail Auctions

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Whatever happened to that auction house? I'm going through a bunch of my old catalogs and I must say that as far as memorabilia goes they had some of the best auctions of the 1990s. I found my catalog with the Stahl items that were just recently re-auctioned and almost every memorabilia lot had me salivating. Lots of items in those catalogs that I've never seen resurface...nowadays it seems like nearly half or more of a catalog auction is stuff that keeps getting turned.

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Posted By: Jimmy Leiderman

I miss those Oregon Trail and The Political Gallery auctions of the 90's.

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Posted By: Bruce Dorskind

As we recall, Oregon Trail merged its business into what was then
Mastro and Steinberg.

Oregon Trail has not been around since the late 1980's or early 1990's


Bruce Dorskind
America's Toughest Want List

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Posted By: barrysloate

Bruce is correct. Oregon Trail became Mastro West, and then the owner (was it Scott Jaimet?) left the business.

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Thanks fellas...they were still around in 1997 as I think that's the latest catalog I have for one of their auctions.

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Posted By: Jim Daniel

Scott Jaimet and Oregon Trail were still around in mid-1998. That's when I bought my first Ruth glove in his auction. I too still have all of my Oregon Trail catalogs. They sure were great. You guys are right that he merged with Mastro and became Mastro West then left soonafter.

JD

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Posted By: Mark

Mastro-West was pretty great as well... they featured nearly all vintage memorabilia, and very few cards. Plus, they actually had some affordable stuff (most lots would sell for under $1,000 with nearly all under $2,500).

I was really sad when Mastro-West was disbanded, as I acquired some of my best pieces from them during the short time they were around.