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The card previously sold for $3.2 million in a private deal in December 2019. 5 $4,633,923 $3,936,000 Mike Trout: 2009 Bowman Chrome Draft Prospects Superfractor Autograph Serial numbered #1/1 BGS MT 9 August 23, 2020: Goldin Auctions The seller, gambling consultant David "Vegas Dave" Oancea, had bought the card for only $400,000 only two years ...
Kenny Washington 1948 Bowman card. By then, Bowman was competing against Leaf Candy Company, which left the marketplace in 1950; [9] that year Bowman sales of baseball cards alone was $1 million. [1] For a few years, Bowman was the leading producer of baseball cards, but was soon overtaken by rival company Topps Chewing Gum. Bowman produced ...
The cards included Mickey Mantle's first Topps card, the most valuable card of the modern era. No one at the time, of course, knew the collector's value the cards would one day attain. On August 28, 2022, the Mickey Mantle baseball card (Topps; #311; SGC MT 9.5) was sold for $12.600 million. [13]
First, the 1989 Bowman cards were 2.5" x 3.75" instead of the standard 2.5" x 3.5" card size (they went back to standard size from 1990 onwards however) and second, its main focus was on upcoming minor league players who Topps believed had a good chance of making it to the majors someday, which continues to be the focus of the Bowman set today.
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Topps and Bowman then competed for customers and the rights to any baseball players' likeness. Two years later, Leaf stopped producing cards. In 1956, Topps bought out Bowman and enjoyed a largely unchallenged position in the U.S. market for the next two decades. From 1952 to 1969, Topps always offered five- or six-card nickel wax packs, and in ...
Topps was the leader in the trading card industry from 1956 to 1980, not only in sports cards but in entertainment cards as well. Many of the top selling non-sports cards were produced by Topps, including Wacky Packages (1967, 1973–1977), Star Wars (beginning in 1977) [ 18 ] and Garbage Pail Kids (beginning in 1985). [ 19 ]