April 2025 Premier Live/Internet Auction
Tuesday, April 29th at 11:00am ET
Welcome to the online catalogue for April 2025 Premier Live/Internet Auction.
Online pre-bidding for Live Auction Lots 1-606 ends Monday, April 28th at 10:00pm ET. Pre-bids/ceiling bids left at huntauctions.com will be executed during the live auction on April 29th 11:00am ET. After online pre-bidding closes on our website, the auction will move to the live format, with bidding available via telephone, absentee, in person and online interactively via Invaluable (see below). If you wish to phone bid during the Live Auction please call 610-524-0822 or email info@huntauctions.com before April 29th. Please note, you do not have to pre-bid in order to bid during the live auction. Online Only lots 611-end, close on Tuesday, April 29th at 10pm ET with bidding continuing for 30 minute intervals. Bidding for lots 611-end is only available online at huntauctions.com
If you have any trouble bidding on auction day, April 29th, please call our office at 610-524-0822 so we can assist you as quickly as possible.
Live Interactive Online Bidding will be available to all registered Hunt Auctions bidders.This bidding platform will provide Hunt Auctions bidders the ability to participate with real time interactive online bidding during the live auction. The interactive bidding will be powered by Invaluable and may be accessed via a link that will be available closer to the date of the auction. Bidders must have a valid Hunt Auctions username and current email address to bid interactively online during the auction. Please note, unless you have already received premiere bidding status and plan to bid live online for item(s), $40,000 is the total bidding limit, you will need to be preapproved as such.
Jeff White Collection
We are pleased to announce the offering of the Jeff White Collection. Jeff grew up in Southern
California and discovered an early love for swimming and surfing. He went on to the University
of Tennessee and became an All American and world ranked swimmer in the 200 meter breaststroke.
While at Tennessee he became attracted to antiques and sports collectibles to inspire his
collecting. He focused on football, basketball, boxing, baseball, volleyball, and surfing with a
particular affinity for the evolution of primitive equipment and its progression in the safety of
all sports. Jeff has been a great friend to Hunt Auctions for nearly three decades and a valued
member of the hobby to which we are thrilled to present items from his personal collection for
the very first time.
Richard "Romo" Romanski Collection
Lots 1-8 and 786-794 originate from the personal collection of Richard “Romo” Romanski. Romanski
began his athletic life as a three-sport athlete in high school and a college quarterback at St.
Norbert’s College, where he was a four-year starter at Quarterback and an honorable-mention Catholic
All-American. He was a longtime friend of Mr. Al Davis, and they met in the U.S. Army at Ft. Belvior,
Virginia where they coached the service football team together. 1963, three years after Mr. Davis got the
Oakland Raiders AFL franchise. He called my Father and, at the time, could not offer him a coaching
position, but he mentioned he had an opening for an equipment manager position with the Oakland
Raiders. “Romo” took the job and, for the next five decades (1963-2015), was the Equipment Manager
for the Oakland and Los Angeles Raiders. He outfitted the players and coaches through five Super Bowl
appearances and was selected as Equipment Director for three Pro Bowls. Romanski was selected to the
Pro Football Hall of Fame with the presented items being offered for the first time publicly.
The Timothy Kelley Collection: Important Pittsburgh Steelers Memorabilia
Lots 9-20 originate from the personal collection of Timothy Kelley. Since watching Joe Greene toss a bottle of Coke to a young boy in a television commercial during the Super Bowl Timothy Kelley was inspired to collect Pittsburgh Steelers memorabilia. Kelley went to his first game in 1974 and interned on the Myrone Cope Show at WTAE in Pittsburgh while attending college at Duquesne. Timothy pursued his dream of becoming a sports writer or announcer but ended up serving within the Federal Government including FBI, CIA, and U.S. Capitol Police, with distinction. Kelley never lost his passion for sports and specifically the Steelers accumulating one of the most significant collections of its type over the last 40 years. The quality and breadth of the Kelley Collection is almost unprecedented for its medium and may well be the most important offering with relation to a single NFL team with many of the pieces within being presented to the public for the first time.
The Personal Collection of Ted Williams
It is with both great pride and an element of sadness that we present this group of materials from the personal collection of Ted Williams. Around the time of the early 2000s we had the pleasure to become acquainted with Ted Williams’ daughter, Claudia and her husband Eric. We developed a trusting relationship that grew over time and culminated in a historic auction event held at Fenway Park in Boston in 2012 that remains today one of the most important single owner auctions in the history of our industry. We are extremely proud of our reputation as the leader in the representation of player related collections to which Ted Williams is undoubtedly among the most important. As we present these additional materials from the Williams Collection, it is with the same intent that Claudia had entrusted us with back in 2012 that they be enjoyed by the adoring fans of her father and to continue to enhance his legacy.
The Personal Collection of Joe Mitchell
Lots 119-165 and 761-785 originate from the personal collection of noted hobbyist Joe Mitchell.
Joe was not only highly regarded as a respected member of the hobby but also as a student of
the game of baseball. Joe’s collection ranged greatly to incorporate many of the members of the National
Baseball Hall of Fame but had special focus the great teams and players of the Negro Leagues.
After an unplanned yet impactful meeting with former player Judy Johnson, Joe founded the Judy
Johnson Memorial Foundation to raise awareness of the contributions of Negro League Baseball.
Joe Mitchell’s contributions to various charitable organizations and lifelong efforts to raise funding
for such are just one part of his enduring legacy. Joe was a client of Hunt Auctions for over 25
years and we are honored to present his personal collection to the hobby over the coming months.
Live Auction
April 2025 Premier Live/Internet Auction
Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at 11:00am ET
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