OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) A local collector is seeking answers following the theft of up to $60,000 in rare sports memorabilia from his Oklahoma City storage facility.

Nick Weinbrenner said he’s been curating the collection since childhood.

“This is a pretty special collection of a lot of rare sports collectible items, of specific players,” Weinbrenner said.

His collection includes thousands of bobbleheads, trading cards, figurines, and rare player memorabilia.

“There’s a mix of items, particularly a lot related to Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant,” he stated. “I would estimate the value to be in the $50,000 to $60,000 range.”

Some of the items are especially hard to come by.

“This one [is] one of 12 made, numbered specifically. This one is 18 of 64,” Weinbrenner explained while presenting News 4 with two three-foot-tall Chicago Cubs bobbleheads celebrating the 2016 World Series win. “Not many of these exist.”

But having all those items in a modest home posed a challenge.

“I obviously don’t have a huge house, so a lot of it—or the majority of it—goes into a storage unit,” he said.

On September 9, Weinbrenner recounted how the storage facility in Oklahoma City contacted him suspecting a breach of his unit.

He rushed over to check on it.

“And got there and opened up the garage door to find it basically empty, with some trash kind of scattered,” he said. “Your stomach just drops.”

He posted about the theft on social media.

Not long after, he heard from the owner of a nearby collectibles store.

“And he is like, ‘Hey, I think I’ve got some stuff here,’” Weinbrenner said.

According to Weinbrenner, the owner told him someone had sold part of the stolen collection, claiming the items were obtained in a storage unit auction.

They told the owner they had even more for sale, which he could pick up from a hotel where they were staying.

That raised red flags for the store owner, who called Oklahoma City police.

Officers went to the hotel and found more of Weinbrenner’s stolen items inside a room and a car in the parking lot.

The next day, Weinbrenner heard from two more stores—both said a man sold them additional pieces from the collection.

“[There] is footage from one of the card shops that provided me the images of the guy that sold them the cards,” he said.

So far, he’s recovered about three-fourths of the collection.

But some of the most valuable and personal items are still missing.

Including some things, which, presumably, the thieves listed for sale on eBay.

“They had put up for sale one of the larger items, a three-foot-tall Kobe bobblehead,” he mentioned. “He’s depicted holding the championship trophy. It’s probably the rarest and most valued piece I own.”

Weinbrenner filed a police report the day of the theft and said officers detained a woman who had been staying in the hotel room with his stolen items.

Surveillance video from the storage facility showed the woman was with at least one other woman when the unit was broken into.

As for the second woman—or the man seen in surveillance footage from the collectibles store—Weinbrenner said police have not given him any updates.

“I just really haven’t heard any information,” he said. “It is frustrating knowing that we have provided a lot of evidence. How hard would it be to go call this cell phone number that we provided you? Or how hard would it be to ask the questions to this lady that you detained or arrested? How hard would it be to, you know, check the eBay listing and find—reach out to eBay?”

He hopes someone will help police connect the missing dots—not because of the monetary value, but because of what the collection means to him.

“It is very personal to me,” Weinbrenner said. “It is a very curated, special collection of unique and rare items.”

If you have any information about the theft, please contact the Oklahoma City Police.