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Posted By: davidcycleback

In Seattle where I live, and elderly man who worked at a Goodwill store found an old autograph book filled there with baseball autographs. Included Ruth, Jim Thorpe and Jimmie Foxx. It was geuine too, later sold by one of the big auction houses. The book was anonymously dropped off at Goodwill as part of a pile of used books. The Goodwill employee put up notices trying to find the owner and there was even a newspaper article about his find, but no one ever came back to claim it.

After his death, I met his daughter and saw the book in person. She had to sell the book because she didn't have enough money to bury the her dad's ashes as he had wished. Happily for her, the album sold for good money (I had no part of the sale, other than recommending an auction house).