Bart Starr
Signed until 2019, so the supply is fixed — nothing new is being added to this market.
Recorded sales
| Date | What sold | Certified | Price | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-29 | Signed 1957 Topps rookie #119 | PSA Card VG 3 / Auto 9 | $8,845 | auction result |
| 2024-02-25 | Signed 1957 Topps rookie #119 | PSA Card EX 5 / Auto 9 | $6,300 | auction result |
| 2022-11-19 | Signed 1957 Topps rookie #119 | PSA Card EX 5 / Auto Authentic | $4,560 | auction result |
By certification level
These are 3 results this index has recorded from Heritage Auctions between 2022 and 2025, not every sale that happened. They under-represent inexpensive items, which sell constantly and are reported rarely, and they exclude private sales this index has no record of. Read them as documented evidence rather than as a complete market.
About this signature
- Status
- Signed until 2019supply is fixed
- Note
- Five NFL championships and the first two Super Bowls; his 1957 rookie carries the market
- On this index
- 0 listedno sales recorded yet
What does a signed Bart Starr card cost?
All three results recorded here are the same card, his 1957 Topps rookie, and they run from about four and a half thousand dollars to just under nine thousand. That is a narrow and expensive market. He died in 2019, so the supply is closed, and the card itself is a genuine 1950s issue rather than a modern one.
The card graded 3 sold for more than the card graded 5. Why?
We cannot tell you, and the reason we cannot is worth more than a guess would be. One copy graded VG 3 on the card with the autograph at 9 made $8,845. One graded EX 5 with the same autograph grade of 9 made $6,300. The better card lost. But the three sales fall in November 2022, February 2024 and March 2025 and rise in exactly that order, so the price may be tracking the calendar rather than the cardboard. With three results we cannot separate the two. What we can say is that the two copies graded EX 5 separate cleanly on the signature: $6,300 with the autograph graded 9 against $4,560 with it graded only Authentic.
Why is his rookie so much dearer than Gale Sayers's?
Both men died within about a year of each other, both played in the same era, and both are in the Hall of Fame. Sayers's 1966 Philadelphia rookie starts at around two hundred dollars in the results recorded here. Starr's starts at four and a half thousand. The gap is roughly twenty-two to one and it is not about how much either man signed. It is that a 1957 Topps card and a 1966 Philadelphia card are separated by the point at which football cards stopped being scarce, and Starr won five championships including the first two Super Bowls. Closure of supply sets the floor for both. What the floor closes at is decided by everything else.
Signatures are reproduced more often than most buyers realise, by outright forgery and also by machines and assistants signing on somebody’s behalf. Every item on this page has been examined by PSA/DNA, JSA, Beckett, SGC or CGC, and this index carries nothing else. That is a deliberate restriction, and the investigation that created the modern authentication industry is worth reading, along with what a certificate actually claims.