Jordan Bryant dual logoman card sells for $12.93M, setting a record

A one-of-a-kind trading card bearing the autographs and game-worn jersey logo patches of Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant sold for $12.932 million at Heritage Auctions over the weekend, setting a new record for the most expensive sports card ever sold at public auction. The 2007-08 Upper Deck Exquisite Collection Dual Logoman Autographs card, graded PSA 6, was offered with a conservative pre-auction estimate of about $6 million and drew what Heritage said were 82 bids before the final hammer price early Sunday, Aug. 24. Some outlets timed the sale to coincide with what would have been Bryant's 47th birthday on Aug. 23.

Heritage Auctions and auction house officials described the card as unique. It features NBA logo patches from Jordan's Chicago Bulls and Bryant's Los Angeles Lakers game-worn jerseys, with the Jordan patch a rarer gold variant worn during the NBA's 50th season in 1996-97. Heritage's director of sports auctions, Chris Ivy, called it "the finest modern basketball card in the world" and said the consignor had held the piece for more than a decade, repeatedly turning down high seven-figure offers before sending it to auction.

Initial reports did not identify the buyer....