What is the best card you ever traded for?

[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.

[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.