What's your best tobacco-card find?

[Blitzu]

My coolest find is still just an unopened drum tobacco pack in a St. Louis antique store. Not a card but I enjoy the items associated to the cards much better. I have found T206's in antique stores before but nothing exceptionally great.

[Bocabirdman]

Back in 1979 I was coming home from a day of flea markets and antique shops. I was just about broke from a reasonably sucessful day. I stopped at a plaza either in Southern New Hampshire on Northern Massachusetts. The stop was as much to use the rest room and grab a bite to eat nearby. I figured as long as I stopped, I would go into this little shop. It was basically a quick window shop. For the heck of it, I asked the woman behind the counter, "Do you happened to have any baseball cards?". She went out back and returned with a large stack (almost 200, as I recall) of T206s T205s and T207s. I cringed, knowing I had little money in my wallet, but I still had to ask, "How much do yo want?" "Well", she said, "They are old......". The $25 she asked for was end her hand before the words finished echoing around the shop. Two sad postscripts. There were no high dollar cards though they were in great shape. Secondly, I sold them and my complete collection about a year later for pennies on the dollar. I am working on collection #2 now

[wazoo]

My first t206 Piedmont 42, authentic (looks perfect) and it only cost $49.


Mike, great story by the way

Or my t206 Joe Doyle and Ed Cicotte.

I bought both cards raw for $90 each. The Doyle graded an SGC 50 and the Cicotte graded an SGC 60. Some of my best finds.

[t206hound]

Now you have me crying (not literally)... went back over some past sales since I haven't had a real "find", just some seemingly great bargains.

2005 - bought a lot with a Schlei Uzit (corner ripped off and back damage) and Peaches Graham Broadleaf 350. Allocated $11 to each card. Sold for $110 and $50 respectively. Thought I was a "winner" at the time.

2006 - That lot also had a McGraw Glove at Hip Red Hindu that graded PSA 3. Sold it for $565 in early 2006. Separately bought raw Marquard Portrait S350 and Bernhard Hindu for roughly $100 each. Both graded PSA 6. Sold for $730 and and $820. Seven years later, what would they go for?