Baseball Card Find - Biggest

[Jay Wolt]

What about Alan Rosen's 1952 Topps find from 20 years ago?
If "found" now, it would probably be worth many many multiples of what he broke it up for then.
Same can apply to his huge find of Bowman BB & FB boxes.

[barrysloate]

Jay- I think the 52 Topps find was close to 30 years ago.

[E93]

I was thinking about the '52 Topps find too. Weren't there somewhere in the neighborhood of 75 nm/mt Mantles among all the other thousands of high numbers?

I think one of the most significant finds was Rob Lifson's (REA) find of five T206 Cobb/Cobb backs in 1997. It brought the known total at the time from 6 to 11.
JimB

[barrysloate]

Originally Posted by E93

I was thinking about the '52 Topps find too. Weren't there somewhere in the neighborhood of 75 nm/mt Mantles among all the other thousands of high numbers?

I think one of the most significant finds was Rob Lifson's (REA) find of five T206 Cobb/Cobb backs in 1997. It brought the known total at the time from 6 to 11.
JimB

+1. The Cobb backs were amazing.

[tedzan]

Al Rosen acquired this find in 1986 in the Boston area. It comprised of 4100 Hi # cards (#311-407)....and, 1400 Semi-Hi # cards (#251-310).

Rosen first tried to sell the Mint Mickey Mantle (#311) cards for $3500 each. He had no takers; so, he lowered the sale price to $2000 each,
and sold most of this Double-Printed card of Mantle.

Furthermore, he put together 21 runs of this set's 97-card Hi # series......15 of these runs were Mint. And, he sold them all at approx. $10K
per 97-card run.

It's a fascinating story to listen to when Al Rosen speaks of it.


Post Script

In early in 1987, these same Mantle cards were selling for $10K each.
The rest is history

TED Z

[Matthew H]

Dave had more then one OJ find... the Oregon find was the most memorable but my favorite was his Indy find. There was 215 cards which included Cusick, Davin, and Veach. Plus many other scarce and desirable cards. Pictures and the story can be seen here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgnXD3W1770

He also had the Fargo find of 32 cabinets.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64RrqEB5-H8

There have been many finds by collectors and dealers over the last 40 years, I'm not sure how well documented they are, but I've heard stories.

[Denali]

Cache of 1930s Unopened Boxes Found:

http://www.sportscollectorsdaily.com...d-boxes-found/

[sycks22]

Originally Posted by Matthew H

Dave had more then one OJ find... the Oregon find was the most memorable but my favorite was his Indy find. There was 215 cards which included Cusick, Davin, and Veach. Plus many other scarce and desirable cards. Pictures and the story can be seen here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgnXD3W1770

He also had the Fargo find of 32 cabinets.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64RrqEB5-H8

There have been many finds by collectors and dealers over the last 40 years, I'm not sure how well documented they are, but I've heard stories.

I was just looking at some of Dave's cards on his site and he grades Old Judge's Ex condition with half of the back missing. Does he really think that would grade a 5ish? Come on.

[bh3443]

Originally Posted by Jay Wolt

What about Alan Rosen's 1952 Topps find from 20 years ago?
If "found" now, it would probably be worth many many multiples of what he broke it up for then.
Same can apply to his huge find of Bowman BB & FB boxes.

Hi Jay!
Those 52's came from my home town of Framingham, MA! Great story behind the find, too!
Talk with you Friday,
Bill

[tbob]

I have to toss in (because I was involved) the Southern Find from the mid-80's in which about 500 T213 series 2 cards and about 100 T213 series 3 cards made their way in to the hobby courtesy of a guy from Louisiana with a huge box of Coupon cards who rolled in to town. I managed to latch on to about 80 of the T213-3 cards (about 15 overprinted backs including 2 Cobbs with the OP backs), all in vg to ex-mt. Sadly they are long gone, before anyone asks. I sold them to Bill Mastro in the mid to late 80's (complete set -1) along with about 200 T-213-2s, but kept one nice Cobb OP back which I swapped about 5-6 years ago for a very nice E94 Wagner now in a PSA 4 holder. No T213-1s in the bunch. Any truly nice T213-3s (very, very tough and scarce) you see are probably from the find as Mastro broke up the set years ago. Probably my biggest regret as a collector...

[nameless]

I appreciate all the information. Very interesting stories.

[Denali]

I'm still waiting for someone to find a crate of 1909 unopened Drum cigarette packs.