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05-12-2009, 02:53 PM
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Garage sale finds
The weather's been exceptionally beautiful lately here in Northern California, and on the weekends, it seems as if there's a garage sale sign on every other telephone pole. I remember my collector/dealer uncle telling me about all the great stuff he used to find at such sales back in the 80's, and have pulled the car over many a time on the (extremely) off chance of stumbling across something interesting. So far, nothing but shiny recent material.
My question is, what's the best card you've ever picked up at a yard/garage sale? 
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05-12-2009, 03:06 PM
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I go to tons of garage sales and have never found a prewar card, but my brother did find a 1907 HM Taylor postcard at a garage sale in Walla Walla, WA a couple of weeks ago.
  Anyone know what this card is worth?
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05-12-2009, 03:15 PM
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my father and I used to go to goodwills and flea markets in the lat 1970s to 1980s and find vintage baseball gloves for $2-$10 all the time. Most were the 1920-1950s webless 3-4 finger or trapper style ones. I ended up dumping them all in the mid 90's for 3-10X what I paid for them. Now I rarely see one and if I do its price is all jacked up.
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05-12-2009, 03:15 PM
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Dan, that's a nice Cobb. The card itself is in really good condition and the writing on the back is obviously not fatal. I think the front writing, however, knocks it down a bit and makes it tough to set a value. I would venture around $500 -- $850.
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05-12-2009, 03:57 PM
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Thanks Jeff!
Frank, I used to find all kinds of splitfinger gloves and vintage bats at garage sales, but not for a long time now. I still see them often at estate sales and auctions, but they always seem to go for more than they're worth.
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05-13-2009, 12:11 AM
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I found this game at the Japanese equivalent to a flea market in Tokyo a few years ago. It cost me 1000 yen, at the time it was about $8 US. It's about 2 feet square and came with the game pieces and directions.
Doug
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05-13-2009, 07:02 AM
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In the 70's when I was a kid, I bought an old scrapbook with newspaper articles from the 30's and 40's, and there were several Goudey's glued in
there, plus some other pre war cards. I think I paid like $5.
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