What is the best card you ever traded for?

[1963Topps Set]

I have mentioned this story before. During the summer of 1971, I was being tutored in Math at a teachers house with other students. A girl there wanted my 1971 Topps Mets team card and offered me an older card for it. I jumped at the deal because I wanted the older card. That card was 1968 Topps Kooseman / Ryan rookie.

Also during the summer of 1973, I traded a 1973 Topps Willie Mays for an entire shopping bag loaded with 1970 Topps cards!

[chris6net]

I was at a card show in Brooklyn in the late 70,s . I had a job with the promoter helping set up tables as a teenager. This show was bi-monthly and my face was very known so Dealers that set up there would ask me to watch there table while they went to get something to eat and would usually offer me something off their table (great memories). Anyway the first Price guide book by Beckett/Eckes had just come out that week and whatever was available at the show sold out in hours and the rumor was that the price guide would not be available for several weeks after the initial printing and I happened to have an extra. A guy walks in and sees me with a guide in my hand and offered me 3 cards. All 1957 Topps. Mantle, Mays and Aaron. He explained that he promised the book for a friend and needed it bad and every dealer was out. I still have the 3 cards and they are in N-MT condition

[PowderedH2O]

Summer of 1976: We lived down the street from New Orleans Jazz player E.C. Coleman. A friend wanted to get an autograph and I had the only EC card around. He ended up trading me from a box of cards his dad gave him a bunch of cards which included a 1960 Topps All-Star Mickey Mantle and a 1952 Topps Ed Mathews. A few years later I traded the Ed Mathews for a stack of early 60's HOFers including Mantles, Aarons, Mays, etc. All for one 1975-76 Topps basketball common.

[philliesphan]

T-206 Proof of Kitty Bransfield. The colors simply pop-

[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.