What is the best card you ever traded for?

[NateMack]

What great stories!

Thanks for sharing!
Nate

[almostdone]

Not as big now but funny to think about. I was working on a trade back around 1991 for a 1989 Upper Deck Griffey rookie. I had a few smaller cards trying to coax a deal. The card that pushed it over the edge? 1990 Score Bo Jackson football/ baseball bw card.
Funny to think any score card from 1990 could complete a trade.
Drew

[Exhibitman]

Picked up a 1958 Bell Gino Cimoli SP as a throw-in on a deal. Sadly, sold it many years ago.

[lutherlafy]

I think it was about 1978 at a card show in the Astrodome.
I traded 2 1955 Rodeo wiener cards and 1 1954 Wilson wiener card
for a 1951 Bowman Mickey Mantle.
At a card show in Ft. Smith, Arkansas about 1976, I obtained my
1952 Topps Mickey Mantle card. I had to trade CASH though and
it was $35.
Guess what? I still have the Mantle cards.

A through the mail trade I think around 1980, I traded a 1952 Topps
Willie Mays (paid $5. for it) for 3 TY COBB signed checks.

[hangman62]

I received a 1934 Goudey Lou Gehrig card from an all time card collecting legend - Brock Haddox !

[CW]

Pardon my French, but holy shit, guys, why are there NO SCANS IN THIS THREAD???



C'mon, y'alllll....

[Mamunrud]

I was fortunate early last year to be making a trade with a guy who had a handful of vintage cards in his pocket and wanted to get some newer rookie cards. After he picked out about 10-12 lower valued cards and I added a couple more to make things closer to even, the guy pulled two more cards out of his coat pocket and said "you might want these cards too". He set down a 1967 Topps Hank Aaron and then a 1954 Aaron with a punch hole in it. He said this ain't worth much at all with the big hole in it but I'll throw these two in for free. I told him that even with that hole in it it's still worth something so he should pick out something else to go with what he wanted. Nope, I was told... "I'm good with these, you can have them cause they're all extras"

[Hot Springs Bathers]

Glen- I attended my first two card shows in 1976 in Ft. Smith! The first was at a small building in a park and the second was at a motel on the south end of town. Both were put on by the great John England.

At the first I purchased an Old Judge, Bushong St. Louis Browns for $4.00 and bought 1975 Topps football wax boxes for $1.00 each!

[baseballfan]

about 10 years back I traded about 35-40 graded (psa 5-6) 55 Topps all Americans which were doubles from my set for a group of about 6-7 HOF from the t206 set SGC 2-4, from the PSA boards. helped us both out as he was starting that set and I was thinking about doing the t206.

this was with a gentlemen I never met from Texas I believe, traded through the mail, all went smooth and perfect and I love those t206 cards to this day.

great hobby with great people no matter the crooks that try to change that. especially this board and PSA.

I have had a couple very nice trades recently filling holes in sets with people here as well. nothing ground breaking but filling needs.

[jchcollins]

Back in my mid-20's (when I spent both too much time and way too much money on cards) I made a trade for a '49 Leaf Ted Williams in about EX or EX-MT condition. It was a beautiful card. Wish I still had it today, but that was a different time and place for me in terms of my collecting goals and practices...

[dabigyankeeman]

I was breaking up my collection as I was condensing to only New York cards, and I had a few thousand commons and minor stars from the 1960's and I traded all of them to a dealer friend for a 1954 Bowman Mickey Mantle in real nice shape.

[JBird]

Couple years back I traded about 20 crap jersey patch cards (all one colored patches) for a 2011 Bowman Sterling Mike Trout rookie. Base value at the time for that was about $40 but I recently sold it for $190. I wanted to hold onto it. But when the value quadrupled I had to sell it.