T206 Honus Wagner
1909–11 American Tobacco
Honus Wagner · T206, 1909–11. Printed by the American Tobacco Company.
01. Start here.
Your collection
is an asset.
Whether it's a collection you built, one you inherited, or one that just crossed your estate-sale table: NJP Assets helps you sell it for what it's actually worth, or turn it into a business that pays you every month. Sports cards, coins, stamps, banknotes, autographs.
Direct Access
You talk to Nik directly.
Tell Nik about your collection
Three fields. Nik reads every one personally.
02. Icons of American History.
Icons of American History
Printed paper and minted metal that have held value for a century.
1921 Morgan Dollar
1921
1882 $1,000 Gold Certificate
Treasury Department
1918 Inverted Jenny 24¢
Curtiss JN-4 error
America’s premier misprint. A singular sheet of 100 stamps accidentally printed with the airplane inverted.
03. MARKET THESIS
Physical history as a durable market.
Collectible cards, coins and paper are a real market now, with third-party grading, public sale records, and buyers all over the world.
$13.75B
Sports-Card Market 2025
$27.5B
Projected by 2034
+66.7%
eBay Card Sales YoY H1 2026
Illustrative trajectory (not a market index)
Sources: Fortune Business Insights, GemRate via Sports Collectors Daily, eBay Q1 2026 earnings.
04. Our Structure
It was never the market. It was the labor.
What finally let me move sitting or unlisted inventory was never the market, it was the labor. Listing a thousand items used to take months, so the whole collection went out the door as one box for a fraction of what it was worth. My system lists a thousand items in a few hours instead of months, across any kind of inventory.
Whether you run the system yourself, run it with me, or want a different arrangement entirely, that's what the call is for.
Conventional Auction Houses
- Seller’s commission comes off the hammer price.
- Buyer’s premium is added on top, so buyers bid less.
- Consignments can sit for months before they sell.
- Every realized price stays public forever.
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- The system becomes yours. It runs in your building, on your accounts. The value stays with you.
- Item by item, never box lots. Each piece sells for what that piece is worth.
- You work directly with Nik. The same person who runs this exact system on his own inventory every day.
- The deal is shaped to you on a call. Not a one-size fee locked on a webpage.
05. Order of Operation
The Three Movements
Clarity in Three Simple Stages
I
MOVEMENT ONE
Book the Audit Call
Thirty minutes, free, with Nik. Tell me what you’re sitting on. You leave with a straight answer on what you have and what I’d do with it.
II
MOVEMENT TWO
We Map the Holdings
If it makes sense to work together, we map the collection: what’s in it, what sells, what it’s worth, and in what order.
III
MOVEMENT THREE
You Run the Strategy
We install the system and I stay until it runs without me. How much I do and how much you do is decided on the call, not on this page.
Questions
Before you call
What does this cost?
The call is free. What comes after depends on the collection and on how much of it you want me to do; that’s exactly what the call is for.
Do you buy collections?
No. NJP Assets doesn’t buy your collection for cash. We help you sell it, or turn it into a business. How we work together is decided on the call.
What if my collection isn’t worth much?
Then I’ll tell you on the call, and you’ll have saved yourself a lot of guessing.
06. Philosophical Core
“Paper is an asset.
History is the collateral.”
NIK
Nikolas Palchikoff
Founder, NJP Assets
ARCHIVAL DESK // PERSONAL AUDIT
07. Provenance & Stewardship
Caring for the treasures that tell your family’s story.
“I’ve watched families get robbed on collections. Someone spends a lifetime building something real, and when it’s time to sell, it goes for a fraction of its worth because nobody had the time or the system to do it right.”
— Nikolas Palchikoff, Founder
Book a Collection Assessment Call
Thirty minutes, free. If I can’t help you, I’ll tell you up front.