Eisenhower's Star Sells

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The 2012 American Heroes & Legends Eisenhower Cut-Sig General Star card auction ended yesterday, hitting $2,400 after 36 bids.

There are many options when it comes to Presidential cards including DNA/hair and cut-signatures but I think this card is one of the more unique cards including one of Eisenhower’s General Stars. I wonder if this opens up other Presidential military rank relics. There have been 12 Presidents who reached the rank of Brigadier General or higher and I am pretty sure Teddy Roosevelt’s Colonel bird and John F Kennedy’s Lieutenant bar would be a big seller too.

Eisenhower's Star

This is kind of a follow up to a post I did a couple of years ago. In September 2012 Panini released the 2012 Americana Heroes & Legends set and it was pretty much the standard Americana release with military leaders, Presidents and athletes. Some of the most popular pulls were the military related hits, which included Tuskegee Airman autographs and relics.

This was a set that Panini did a wonderful job from top to bottom and so diverse that it fit within everyone’s (who collected non-sports cards) interests and wants.

There is one card that grabbed my attention and while I knew I would not be able to afford it I still wanted to see how it would do. The Eisenhower Autograph-Relic card with one of his General stars. I had never seen one show up for auction, I had never even heard of someone pulling one for that fact until last month when someone posted on Blowout’s forum that he pulled #2/4, a card he has since put up on eBay.

It started at ¢1 but after 23 bids it is now up to $870 with nearly 3 days left in the auction. Since this is the first one to show up I would expect to see the current price triple and I don’t think I would be surprised to see it top $5,000 even.

Early Preview Images Of 2012 Panini Americana

Panini has released some early preview images of the upcoming Americana release, titled Americana Heroes & Legends, set to hit store shelves July 11, 2012. There has been no information regarding price but they are changing the pack out, now there will be 18 packs per box with 10 cards per pack (a change from 2011’s 4 packs per box w/ 5 cards per pack). Each box will contain 3 autographs/memorabilia cards along with 9 inserts and 1 parallel.

The Summer Olympics are set to open in London in late July so Panini worked in Olympic athletes in to the set including autographs and memorabilia from Winter and Summer Olympians. There is also an insert/subset called USA Medals which will feature medal winning Olympians with an actual piece of gold, silver or bronze embedded in to the card.

One of the highlights of the set is a special Eisenhower card #/4; the card features an actual General Star from Eisenhower’s uniform along with a cut signature from the General/Former President. Eisenhower eventually became a 5-Star General before the end of World War II so I am guessing Panini could only obtain 4 stars for these cards.