I have bought a fair number of junk wax stuff from garage sales for almost nothing, just for fun to open. Only time I found something good that wasn't priced as if it was the Shroud of Turin is a batch of boxing tobacco cards I bought. About 100 cards, nothing super rare, but cool to find old tobacco stuff that hadn't ever come to the hobby before. The gentlemen I got them from told me they were among his grandfathers possessions who was from New York; and was probably about the right age to be a card collecting kid in 1910. I've come across plenty of 50's stuff, but their owners have in my experience thought they were worth Mint prices when the cards are creased.
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