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Cards that met their demise...
Posted By: Nickinvegas
A few weeks ago I went to a show and purchased an EXMint 62' Mantle and a few other star cards and put them in my shirt pocket. Unfortunataly I forgot to take them out and my wife who would sooner die then have something out of place took the shirt straight to the washing machine. I explained to her how this card managed to stay in great shape for over 40 years and spent only 40 minutes in our house and it was mangled. |
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Posted By: t-206collector
That's a surprising string of irresponsible card handling you got there. I too have been vexed by irony behind lightly knicking a card's corner while trying to preserve it in a toploader. The only really bad gaffe I ever really had, however, involved a Frank Thomas 1990 Leaf Rookie in a screwdown holder, when it was worth about $75.00. A friend of the family came over and their 5 year old son wanted to see my card collection, which again, at the time, was more modern and less vintage. I opened up the cabinet where the Thomas was sitting and without my being able to get a word out, the kid raked his hands over my entire collection and flung the Thomas across the room. Upon hitting the floor, the card slipped halfway out of the screwdown holder and damaged a corner. I was so angry, but I had to be polite to the kid and his family. |
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Posted By: Chris
Las year I went to visit my girlfriend who lives about 1/2 block from Wrigley Field. Sometime between the beginning and end of a Cubs/Reds game someone broke into my car and stole a T205 Tris Speaker and a shirt(?). They left a very valuable stereo system, but went for a card i had hidden (or so I thought) in a piece of cardboard under the floor mat. I was reminded why I am a Cards fan who views Wrigley field as a giant urinal again that day.. |
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Posted By: Dan Elsass
Well, hate to bring up ex-wife stories but... I will first premise this message with saying that she did NOT get what I had in my safe deposit boxes (all of my Vintage cards), Thank God she was never on the access list to get to them! However, the down side to this story is that I did lose my entire "home" collection while on a Submarine deployment back in 1989. She decided that 3 months was just too long to wait for her husband to come home, so she decided to leave. She sold all of my cards for a couple hundred bucks to some card shop in Charleston, SC for her U-haul money. What I lost, besides a great dog, complete baseball sets from 1963 to 1975, complete football sets from 1969 to 1975 and a few other tough sets plus tons and tons of rookies and stars from that era. |
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Posted By: BillyB
LOL! |
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Cards that met their demise...
Posted By: Julie
with my stupidity... |
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