About Global Card Auctions

We are a team of passionate collectors who enjoy obscure cards from Running to CDVs

Our Story

Global Card Auctions started with a simple frustration: the cards we loved most were the ones the big auction houses ignored. Vintage nonsports, cricket, CDVs, foreign issues — overlooked categories, often handled by people who had never built a collection of their own. So three lifelong collectors decided to build the house we wished existed: one run by collectors, for collectors, where every card gets the research, respect, and spotlight it deserves.

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From Our Personal Collections

Plenty of auction houses are run by businesspeople who have never built a collection of their own. We’re the opposite — every founder here is a lifelong collector first. Here are a few favorites from our personal collections, and why each one made the cut.

Ryan Nolan

Founder · Lead Specialist · Personal Collection

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1899 Ogdens Cricketers & Sportsmen Vector Trumper

This set features a ton of Cricketers and Golfers. This is my nicest copy and a Rookie Card of the legendary Victor Trumper

1898-99 Honest Long Cut War Photographs Col. Roosevelt

Teddy Roosevelt has 3 cards that were published before he took over as President. This is the rarest which is from the Spanish American War

1986 Rock Starts 85/86 Metallica

I’m a huge Metal Fan. This is the earliest full band pic of Metallica. It’s SUPER tough to find with a back as Brazil 80s music cards were stickers.

1909 Real Photo Postcard Dwight Eisenhower

This postcard is an interesting crossover as Dwight D. Eisenhower is shown on his high school baseball team.

1972 Panini Cantanti 72 #305 Black Sabbath -Bisvalida

This card is signed by Ozzy Osbourne and is one of the earlier Black Sabbath cards. In the 72 set, it has the highly coveted Bisvalida back.

1860s Mathew Brady CDV Proof

There are less than 20 known Mathew Brady Proofs. Brady (and his team) would send these to subjects before printing for approval

1888 N76 Duke Great Americans Samuel Clemens

One of my favorite Duke sets is the Great Americans. While I have an SGC 7 in my collection, I elected to showcase the Mark Twain

1887 Lone Jack Cigarettes Inventors Benjamin Franklin

The Lone Jack Inventors are nearly an impossible set to complete. While there are 25 subjects, only a handful sell each year. I built the set in 3 years.

1959 Menko JCM 31C Sadaharu Oh

I almost put my Ramly Walter Johnson in this spot… The Oh was my first Japanese baseball card in my collection.

1910 T226 Red Sun Cigarettes Sam Langford

The T226 Red Suns were only distributed in Louisiana. The 4 black boxers in the set have a handful of copies known.

Steven Lazar

Co-Founder · Negro League & Latin American · Personal Collection

Negro League and Latin American baseball — the history the mainstream hobby overlooked.

1946-47 Propagandas Montiel #64 Stan Musial

Caribbean winter-league history in one card.

1924-25 Aguilitas #843 Cristóbal Torriente

Tobacco-era rarity from the island’s golden age.

1988 Mira Tuttosport #490 Lew Alcindor

The crown jewel of Latin American collecting.

1945-46 Caramelo Deportivo #27 Minnie Miñoso (Auto)

A star the record books left out.

1923-24 Tomás Gutiérrez #76 Andy Cooper

Where Latin baseball cards really begin.

1977 Chong Modesto A’s #5 Rickey Henderson (Auto)

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1947 Bond Bread Jackie Robinson (Portrait)

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1955 All American Sports Club #41 Bill Russell (Hand-Cut)

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1951 Doble Águila #157 Concordia vs. York (Martín Dihigo)

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1949-50 Toleteros Willard Brown

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Rahul Patel

Co-Founder · Foreign Nonsports · Personal Collection

Foreign nonsports — British, European, and beyond. I’ll cross an ocean for the right card.

1966 Topps Batman Cello Pack (Black Bat) #1

Picked this up opportunistically at a card show. Only two cello packs with Batman #1 on top have ever been graded, and this is by far the nicer copy. Certainly one of the most iconic non-sports cards out there.

T206 Walter Johnson, Hands at Chest (Broadleaf 460)

Took a big risk and bought this raw at an auction, then had to sweat out the grade at the National. Only a handful of these have been graded — the Broadleaf 460 back is considered the third-rarest back in the T206 set.

2019 Bowman’s Best Superfractor Auto 1/1 — Shohei Ohtani

I spotted this card at the National two years ago, and it took nine months to get a deal done. I PC Shohei Ohtani, and I’m happy to have this as the centerpiece of an extensive Ohtani rookie collection.

Tom Morris Jr and Sr Golf Cabinet Card

Not all CDVs are created equal, and this is one of the most beautiful, clear images you will find on one. It’s also, in my opinion, the nicest image of the legendary father-and-son golfing duo.

1901 Carson’s Chocolate Abraham Lincoln

I have a lot of foreign issues in my collection, and this one is tough to source. The set is quite extensive, and I’ve never seen another. Love the image of Lincoln against the brown chocolate background — the only graded copy on the pop report.