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Collectors outraged over Brady autograph signing
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🚨Brady autograph signing sparks uproar
Collectors paid $3,600 for a ticket to hear Tom Brady speak, a photo-op, and a Brady signature on an item of their choice Saturday night in Miami. When collectors saw the autographs Brady penned on their items, they couldn’t believe it: "It looked like they were all signed by Tim Allen, not Tom Brady.’’
As pictures of the autographs appeared on social media over the weekend, outrage spread — with fingers pointing at Fanatics, Brady and the event organizers.
🗞️ Kurt’s Card Care vs. PSA
The battle between grader PSA and card cleaner and restorer Kurt's Card Care has reached a peak, after PSA deactivated an order that included a Jackie Robinson card that was soaked in his card spray on Kurt's Card Care social media channels last Wednesday. Our Darren Rovell got to the bottom of things.
"I do this because I love it," Colone said. "And here people are treating me like I'm some trimmer. There's a lot of other fuckery going on."
💰️ Auction round-up
⚾️ Jeter returns at REA
Jeter’s top rookie card is one of the most condition-sensitive in the modern hobby, with over 48,000 graded by PSA, BGS. SGC and CGC combined and a 0.6% Gem Rate, according to gemrate. This weekend’s $312,000 sale at Robert Edward Auctions marks the top price paid for a PSA 10 example (pop: 21) since June 2022. Comparable sales tell a compelling story regarding the impact of sales frequency and supply in the market and their impact on price. Between 2013 and 2020, there were less than three public sales per year. In 2022, the same year the card notched a record $600,000, there were six public sales, descending to $204,000 in back-to-back sales in December of that year. This is the first public offering since those auctions.
đź‘ź Air Ships fail to catch much air
As we covered last week, the Air Ships are a rare fresh-to-market find of one of the most significant sneakers in the history of sports. A faded signature and lack of a photo-match surely hurt this pair at auction, closing at $282,000 — a far cry from the $624,000 result for another pair photo-matched to Jordan’s fifth NBA game sold last fall.
đź‘€ Eye appeal shines
This $22,200 sale of a PSA 9 Jordan rookie with PWCC-E eye appeal is a great opportunity to discuss eye-appeal designations. For the uninitiated, companies like MBA and PWCC apply a second-level of grading to slabbed cards known as eye appeal, providing an added data point capable of differentiating otherwise like-graded cards. In PWCC’s case, they offer three eye appeal rating’s: PWCC-A (top 30% of cards at the grade), PWCC-E (top 15%), and PWCC-S (top 5%). This PSA 9 Jordan rookie was given a PWCC-E designation, which clearly elevated it above its peers. During the same auction Sunday night, another PSA 9 copy (sans eye appeal sticker) sold for $15,600.
🟩 Palmer’s Green Jacket stolen
After reports of stolen memorabilia surfaced out of Augusta last week, we uncovered that Arnold Palmer’s Green Jacket was among the haul.
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