Auction Buzz: Autographs and more up for grabs via Block

Sometimes, you just have to know where to look.

A long-time Detroit-area collector's treasures -- a mix of in-person autographs and pick-ups from the 1980s and early 1990s that were part of a private "sports museum" -- are all up for grabs right now in the Block Auction House "Autographed Sports Memorabilia Auction: Icons of Baseball, Football, Basketball & More."

The selection of 450 lots from the Ferndale, Mich.-based company is live for the next six days. It includes a number of autographs from the Score Board days and many other signing sessions in the years before Upper Deck Authenticated and other companies arrived with stickered/databased sigs. Some top items do have BAS Signature Review and some have UDA stickering, though the collection as a whole might make for some bargain shopping/flipping if buyers later get pieces full third-party authentication. (A number of these lots are simply Score Board pieces where the certificate is no longer a companion to the item.)

Keep reading for a gallery of a few pieces that are live now.

Among the 450 lots live now are a mix of signed balls, bats and other framed memorabilia displays with a little bit of everything in between that includes high-end porcelain figurines, jerseys, prints and cards. It includes the big-four sports -- baseball, football, basketball and hockey -- and touches of others. And it's not solely autographs, either.

Among the notables? Autographs from Kobe Bryant, Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Michael Jordan, Mel Allen, Ernie Harwell and so many more. As one example, there are signed game-model bats from Ken Griffey Jr., Jose Canseco, Pete Rose, Carl Yastrzemski, Frank Robinson, Hank Aaron, Barry Bonds, Cecil Fielder, Will Clark, Ernie Banks and Stan Musial. (Some prime Score Board material there among many others.) From more recent years, there's even a pair of size-18 Darko Milicic Adidas basketball shoes. Some lots will pair similar items -- signed cards/baseballs/statues -- for example with Aaron, Mantle, Canseco, Banks, Mike Schmidt and George Brett being some of those.

Even more items and names can be seen in a small selection in the gallery below -- just the tip of the iceberg -- and you can click here to see everything that's up for grabs right now.

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