Now that’s one costly card.
A signed card that includes Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant offered for $12.932 million on Saturday, establishing a report for many ever paid for a sports activities collectible card.
This record-setting card is named the 2007-08 Higher Deck Beautiful Assortment Twin Logoman Autographs Jordan & Bryant card. It surpassed the 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle card, which was offered for $12.6 million in August 2022.
The Jordan/Bryant card is the second costliest sports activities collectible ever, behind Babe Ruth’s 1932 World Collection “referred to as shot” jersey. That little piece of historical past offered for $24.12 million in 2024.
The Jordan/Bryant card was offered by means of Heritage Auctions. The purchaser’s id was not revealed.
Chris Ivy, Heritage’s director of sports activities auctions, mentioned through ESPN that the Jordan/Bryant card is “the top so far as trendy card collectors are involved.” He added that “one other one cannot be created. It is all the time been checked out by trendy basketball collectors as a holy grail.”
Ivy added that the cardboard’s earlier proprietor had saved it for greater than a decade, turning down “excessive seven-figure” non-public gives in that point.
“The pre-auction estimate was $6 million-plus,” Ivy informed ESPN, “so generally if a chunk is exclusive like this, it is actually helpful to let it have its day.”
-Area Stage Media/Reuters
