ABOUT US

GOTTA HAVE IT!® Collectibles, Inc., founded by Peter Siegel and Robert Schagrin in 1994, is the premier resource for the highest quality collectibles and memorabilia. Since its inception, GOTTA HAVE IT!® has been internationally recognized as the ultimate destination for fully authenticated Sports, Entertainment and Historical memorabilia. We specialize in building collections for individual collectors, corporate entities including The Hard Rock Café and Topps Baseball Card Company, and institutions such as The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.  

As of April 2006, Edward Kosinski, the original founder of The Rock and Roll Trust, joined GOTTA HAVE IT!® as a principal. Ed brings with him a deep background of knowledge and experience in the world of Rock and Roll memorabilia collection, curating, authentication and auctions. Ed formed The Rock and Roll Trust in 1989 to work with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to help preserve the integrity of Rock and Roll memorabilia collecting.

GOTTA HAVE IT!® Auctions, Inc. has partnered with Sothebys.com for highly successful online events, including auctions devoted to Madonna (a record-breaker!), Baseball For America (benefiting the Twin Towers Fund), Muhammad Ali and The Beatles. Auctions hosted on gottahaveit.com include the extraordinarily successful Britney Spears charity auction, Paul McCartney, “A Beatle and His Bear,” Kenneth Cole’s “Celebrity Help USA,” UGGs Australia (in 2003 and 2004), Samsung’s “Four Seasons of Hope,” Jergens, on behalf of the Skin Cancer Foundation, and many more. Ed Kosinski, of the Rock and Roll Trust, joined our auction company as a principal in 2001. Ed's extensive knowledge of entertainment memorabilia has been tapped by such venerable institutions as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, and Paul Allen's Experience Music Project in Seattle, Washington, where he assists in the authentication of vintage and contemporary music artifacts.

GOTTA HAVE IT!® Auctions's Charity Outreach Program has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for such high-profile charities as the Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund, The Roger Clemens Foundation, VH1's "Save the Music," Muscular Dystrophy, and Long Island Jewish Hospital's Children's Medical Fund.

GOTTA HAVE IT! ®is regularly featured in many of the world's top news, business and entertainment media, including ABC, NBC and CBS News, CNN Headline News, Fox News, Good Morning America, The Today Show, Fox's "The O'Reilly Factor," CNBC's "Business Unusual," the BBC, Sky 1, E!, Entertainment Tonight, MTV, VH1, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, London Sunday Mail, The Independent, People, Forbes, and Barrons. GOTTA HAVE IT!® has partnered with Cablevision's Metro Channel and AMC to provide inventory and expertise for a series of live, interactive auctions.

The Gallery
Since 1994, GOTTA HAVE IT!® has been located on New York City’s most fashionable shopping street at 153 East 57th Street, between Lexington and Third Avenues. Our retail gallery is a veritable pop culture time capsule, featuring incredible Sports, Entertainment and Historical artifacts. Come visit our gallery soon, it’s the museum where everything is for sale!

Telephone (800) 950 - 1202 or (212) 750 - 7900

Address: Gotta Have It! Collectibles, Inc., 153 East 57th Street, New York, NY 10022

The Gallery at Mickey Mantle’s Restaurant
On October 1, 2005 GOTTA HAVE IT!® opened our second retail store, at Mickey Mantle’s Restaurant, in the heart of Midtown Manhattan. The GOTTA HAVE IT!® experience has been re-created at this world famous restaurant where visitors can purchase collectibles right off the walls. A full-time GOTTA HAVE IT!® memorabilia expert is on the premises to answer all questions and assist with purchases.

Mickey Mantle’s Restaurant is located at 42 Central Park South, New York, NY. 10019
(between 5th and 6th Avenues on 59th Street )

Telephone (212) 688-1060