Use is what sets the price
Game-used, photo-matched to a specific game, issued, or merely associated: bidders price each one very differently, and a specialist states which it is.
Markets · Sports Memorabilia
Game-used, signed and documented, sold on your own website
In sports memorabilia the paperwork is half the lot. Auctionomy gives every jersey, bat and programme room for its letters, photo-matches and history, and keeps your house's name on the page.
How your bidders buy
What your bidders read for
Letters travel with the lot
Letters of authenticity, signature authentication and family or club letters are part of what the bidder is buying. They expect to see who issued them and what each one covers.
Sport, team and era lead the browse
Collectors move through a sale by sport and team, then by equipment, uniforms, balls, programmes, tickets and awards.
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Every line of the entry has its place
Description, estimate, condition and provenance are separate parts of every lot on Auctionomy, and each one shows on the lot page. The entry shown here is an illustration, written the way the trade writes it.
Illustrative lot · fictional
Lot 47. Game-used road jersey, minor-league outfielder, 1987 season, photo-matched
Grey flannel road jersey with sewn team lettering and number 21, manufacturer's tag and size in the collar. Player's name chain-stitched in the tail.
Estimate US$2,500–3,500
- Condition
- Heavy game wear with repairs to the left sleeve consistent with use. Minor discolouration under the arms. No later alterations.
- Provenance
- From the club's equipment manager by descent. Accompanied by a photo-match letter identifying use in a home stand that August.
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Provenance and documentation on the lot page
Write the chain of ownership and every letter that accompanies the piece as provenance, and the wear and alterations as condition. Photograph the tags, the signatures and the paperwork too.
Categories by sport and object
Set categories by sport, team and object type, so a bidder can go straight to baseball bats or football programmes, filter, search and keep a watchlist.
Absentee bids and your own increments
Collectors who can't follow the sale leave an absentee bid and the engine bids for them, under the increment table and buyer's premium your house sets.
Timed and live sales
Run a timed sale for the long tail of signed photographs and a live sale for the headline game-used lots. Live video streaming is in development.
Your trade, your house
Fluent in the trade, and unmistakably yours
Lakefront Sporting Collections is a demonstration house: fictional, built on Auctionomy to show how a house specialising in sports memorabilia looks on the platform. Its name, colours, typeface and page layout are its own, assembled from the same components every house uses. Yours would carry your name, your logo and your look, on your own domain.
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A flat subscription, agreed with your house. Your bidders register with you, and the buyer's premium you set is yours.