show your cards from the original owner
 

I thought of this after Leon's post about the 100 year old tobbaco cards that will get thier 2nd owner. Show cards that you got from the original owner. These are some of my dad's diamond stars. When I as 12 I showed the Hornsby to my friend and them left it in my pants which went through the wash. DOH!

Trucker Boy find...and the card that started it all.....

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Dad's Mantle, right from the pack

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1928 Star Player Candy cards.

Went to a paper show and found some sports cards. The dealer was selling different things and these just happened to be his father's cards. So, technically, I might be the third owner since new....

David

Every T206 I own (and sell) were the direct purchase back in the day & belonged to a Minor Lg pitcher by the name of Roy Mellinger, who played for the Cedar Rapids Rabbits in the Central Association from 1914-1917.

They are for the most part in above avg shape as they have never been in hobby circulation.

March 2012 I won this Sandy Koufax on eBay and received the following note from the seller:

"Hi, thanks a million for buying this Sandy Koufax card. This may be a poor and acceptable card, but this one has a lot of memory for me and it was hard to sell. I almost had the complete set and I was frustrated because I could not get this card. He was a nobody at that time, but none of my friends had it either. So, one day in late 1957 I went to a friends house and he had a buddy who had cards, but was not taking care of them like me. I saw this card and it was like finding a diamond in the rough. I traded for it. Yes the card has issues, but, to me, this is one of about 100 cards that are directly linked to my youth. Take care of it. Thanks Stephen"

A pleasant surprise. And, along with low cost, one of the reasons I like raw low grade cards. Each one has a potential story like this one attached to it.

My only other cards of known provenance: Nov 2010 I was working on the monster and bought about 20 t206's from a lady in Virginia. The ebay listing said they belonged to the lady's uncle. I asked if she could tell me a bit more about him and her husband wrote the following note:


"My uncle Robert Buchanan Owens was born in Mason County Kentucky in 1901 and passed in 1970. He was in the military, I think the signal corp and stationed in England during WWII. His family had a English ancestry and he enjoyed having his tea each morning, with a cut rose on his table from his flowers. He was a Travelers insurance agent for 30 to 34 years. He and his brother Frank S. Owens must have collected these cards together. You can go to http://books.google.com/books?id=qPs...e%20ky&f=false to find more about his brother Frank S. who father had a Ohio River ferry named after him. Uncle Bob was a kind man, who with my aunt Viola, were very involved in the community and their church. Since he lived close to Cincinnati, the Reds were his favorite team. He was a gardener having as I remember huge flower beds of rose. He enjoyed golf and was an active golfer. Finally, I cannot remember many days that Uncle Bob did not have a crisp starched white shirt, a tie, with a sport coat or suit. I hope you children and yourself enjoy he and his brother's baseball cards. ,, Tom "

I'm not sure if I'm truly the second owner, but I bought this card from LOTG last spring. It comes from a family collection dating back to the turn of the century. It has a back stamp of William Born while the others sold in that auction state Ernest Born. How the 2 were related, I'm not too sure, but I'd guess that I may be the 2nd/3rd owner at best or if the Born's got the card trading with their friends back in the late 1800s or early 1900s, I may be actually far down along the chain. Either way, I'm glad to own the card and am able to date the card at least to the early 1900s and possibly to when it was pack fresh.


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Waddle over to this thread
 

That is a great story, and a cool card that was obviously loved. It is funny how the thunder rumbles. My dad had 3 of those that he collected as a boy, out of a total of 270 1957 Topps. This was the best of the bunch.

Here are just a few of the 300 prewar cards that my Dad inherited from a family member who originally collected them. They have all recently been auctioned off, and we are pleased that they are back in circulation for the first time in a hundred years. :D

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Not quite direct, but very few owners which is very cool....I think I'm the third owner....

Sweet! I'm pretty sure I have the graded incarnation of that E93 Matty.. I guess I'm #3 then?

Oh yeah! #3. My Dad's uncle ate the candy that came with that card.

Hard to miss that little corner chip on the bottom left. Congrats!

Maybe he ate the corner chip too?:D.

It's pretty cool knowing this.. I'll take good care of it Theo.

Btw- Chewy rocks

Barghhhhuhhhh! (How do you type Wookie?)

Glad it is in good hands! Enjoy!

I'm glad you got it too, Ian! That was a great collection.

Adam, I'm reasonably certain that Ernest and William Born were brothers. The collection was consigned to LOTG from Ernest's daughter, who inherited the collection of about 1,000 cards, mostly from the tobacco era. Until you got it, the card had, as far as anyone knows, never been outside the family.

I've been fortunate enough to handle three original owner collections in the past year with LOTG, and each one has been an absolutely fantastic, fascinating experience.

-Al

I assume he was the first owner

I purchased these two and others
 

From a dealer who was selling them for his dental hygienist whose grandfather collected them.

Obtained by my father and I from the sister of the original collector in the mid 1970s.

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I know this is not prewar but we've had a few postwar on this thread so I thought I would chip in. This 62 Mantle "The Switch Hitter Connects" card came to me a few years back and the original owner (who I do not know) sent me this hand written note with the card.

The card was graded but I cracked it out and it sits in my mostly raw natural set with the note tucked in behind the card in the plastic sheet. I thought it was neat of the original owner to include the note.

To all,

In keeping with the topic, I found out the power of Mickey Mantle when I bought two collections of Topps cards from two different guys who had collected them as boys.

The first guys collection consisted of mostly 1955, 1956 and 1958 cards while the second guys collection was 1958, 1960 and 1961 cards. In both instances, they had no problem selling their childhood collections. They had no problem parting with the big name players like Aaron, Mays, Koufax and others. If there were All Star cards ro high numbers they had no problem parting with those either.

What they DID have a problem with was selling their Mickey Mantle cards. Each guy said I could buy every card in their collection EXCEPT their Mantle cards. They were keeping them as sentimental favorites.

So, even though they wanted to sell the cards and use the money for something else they both kept soem of the msot valuable cards jsut because it was Mickey Mantle.

David

Here's the Cobb pictured earlier raw from the original owner. Happy to be the 2nd owner and hope to pass it on to my 3 month old son :)

Pulled from packs by Lionel Carter, this is the set that started his baseball card obsession.
JimB

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Verry nice Cobb. The red background look so bright and vibrant

When I was a kid, a female teacher who lived next door gave me a small pile of cards she found in a school locker when they were cleaning up for the summer. Probably only 20 cards total, but there was a '59 and a '60 Mantle, both very well-worn.

All of my early Zs with coupons came from the grandson of the person who collected them as a kid...

Bought this Lajoie Pinkerton Blank Back from a elderly man back in the early 1980's, and wish I bought the Hans Wagner along with it.