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Barry Halper (December 3, 1939 – December 18, 2005) was an extensive collector of baseball memorabilia who had been a limited partner owning about 1% of the New York Yankees. [1] During the auction of Halper's collection, Sotheby's Auction House called it the "World Series of Sports Auctions."
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In 1999, Upper Deck Company spent in excess of $1.1 million in acquiring vintage baseball memorabilia items at the Barry Halper Collection auction held at Sotheby's in New York City. [16] One of the items was a Ty Cobb jersey that Upper Deck paid $332,500 for. As part of a sweepstakes prize, it gave the jersey to 14-year-old Robert Shell of ...
In 2021, Legends was bought by Sixth Street Partners, who now lead the Legends partnership group with co-founders YGE Holdings, LLC, an affiliate of the New York Yankees, and Jones Concessions LP, an affiliate of the Dallas Cowboys. On November 10 2023, Legends announced it would be acquiring California-based ASM Global for an undisclosed ...
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A still-functioning Panavision PSR 35mm camera used to film Star Wars (1977) went for $625,000 in the December 2011 Reynolds auction, breaking records for Star Wars memorabilia and vintage cameras. [60] In June 2017, an R2-D2 droid "compiled from parts" used during filming of the trilogy sold for $2,760,000, setting the record for Star Wars ...
Mara Papalas' father, Louis, spent decades collecting six storage units worth of Streisand paraphernalia, ranging from posters and record jackets to clocks and nesting dolls.
As part of the settlement, Steiner paid $16,666 to the City of New York and contributed $33,333 worth of memorabilia to City Store. [ 21 ] In 2009, a class action lawsuit was filed against Steiner Sports and the Yankees, claiming that the two had repainted and made other modifications to seat pairs from the original Yankee Stadium that were ...