Watch the moment Robert Kraft buys signed Tom Brady rookie card for $120k while legendary QB sits next to him at auction

New England Patriots proprietor Robert Kraft purchased a gem mint information Tom Brady rookie paper for $120,000 astatine a Sotheby's auction successful New York City connected Tuesday evening.

With the legendary Patriots backmost turned NFL colour commentator sitting adjacent to him, Kraft won the paper with a bid of $100,000 - yet paying $120k for the autographed portion of memorabilia.

Kraft was alongside Brady and Fanatics proprietor Michael Rubin astatine the 'Holy Grails' auction successful Harlem - wherever uncommon and peculiar trading cards and collectibles were enactment up for sale.

According to Sothebys, the paper that Kraft bought 'commemorates Brady's rookie play aft being selected 199th wide by the Patriots successful the 2000 NFL Draft.'

The statement of the paper continues, saying, 'The piece, arsenic good arsenic Tom Brady rookie cards generally, is made particularly uncommon by the information that truthful fewer were printed owed to his draught stock.

'Compared to apical of the draught players, particularly successful today's game, who are featured successful a assortment of sets and variations, Brady's presumption arsenic a sixth rounder curbed his people tally astatine large. 

'Brady lone had astir 135 main enactment paper designs printed for the 2000 merchandise twelvemonth and lone 13 among them featured an autograph. Of these, conscionable 4 featured Brady successful his iconic fig 12 Patriots uniform.'

This paper that Kraft purchased was 1 of 4 Brady cards that were enactment up for auction connected Tuesday night.

The lowest-end paper was a 2006 Upper Deck Ultimate Collection Holosilver paper that was one-of-one and sold for $21,600.

In summation to the paper Kraft bought, determination was different Brady autographed rookie paper that was erstwhile owned by the backmost himself which was sold for $192,000.

But the astir costly Brady paper of the evening was a 2015 Panini Immacculate Collection Premium Patches paper that had the NFL shield from 1 of Brady's jerseys arsenic good arsenic an autograph. This one-of-one paper sold for a whopping $480,000.

Surprisingly, this was not the astir costly acquisition of the evening - that grant belongs to a 1955 Roberto Clemente rookie card, which was sold successful the auction for an unbelievable $840,000.