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Sports Memorabilia Appraisers at the Museum
What's your favorite sport, team or sports figure? Whether football, baseball, basketball, boxing, soccer or hockey is your game, have you saved or collected any equipment, clothing or memorabilia? Would you like to know what it's worth? Whether the sports memorabilia you collected is for yourself or is an investment intended for trading or selling to other collectors, here's a chance to learn its value from experts in the field.
Find out this Saturday, October 6, at the Sports Memorabilia Road Show at the Wisconsin Historical Museum at 30 North Carroll Street on Madison's Capitol Square. Doors open at 9 a.m., and appraisals take place from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
For a $10 donation, you can bring up to four items of memorabilia from any sport or any era. How do you decide what to bring? Guideline: sets constitute one item; an entire book of individual baseball cards (not in a set) does not. Experts Troy Kinunen and Dave Bushing of Memorabilia Evaluation and Research Services (MEARS) will examine each item, using a list of criteria they apply to an authentication process, and give you a written appraisal. To enhance the experience for everyone, the appraisers have requested the use of a speaker system so their evaluation comments can be heard by all who are interested.
Bushing and Kinunen have created reference guides to serve the sports memorabilia industry. MEARS is an Internet-based organization serving both individual collectors and select auction houses. Besides providing a wealth of reference information, it is a source of the most current hobby news in the industry.
At the end of the day, your item's monetary value may be critical information or unimportant compared to the sentimental value it holds for you. But wouldn't it be nice to know?
While you are at the museum, see World Series Wisconsin. The exhibit has been so popular that the museum has extended its run. The new closing date is January 12, 2008.
:: Posted October 3, 2007
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