Garage/Estate Sale Success?

ajjohnsonsoxfan · #1 01-18-2016, 03:04 PM

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Originally Posted by brianp-beme

I have a feeling that the cards are reprints, as the Lajoie card is included and all the cards look too fresh.

Brian

Brian you got me...that was my early April fools joke. This is a reprint set my son and I glued to a board and had framed. Would be great to find a complete Goudey set at a yard sale though...!

Tripredacus · #2 01-18-2016, 03:22 PM

Also I want to mention that when you ask someone at a garage sale for something, try to be as generic as possible. Also remember that the people will not know all terms that exist in the hobby or maybe any of them. So I wouldn't specifically ask for football cards, but more like say "football stuff from the 60s" or something.

You need to judge the age of the person selling before using certain words. Asking for "old" things will get you a wide range and likely not what you want. One time I remember asking for "old cards" resulted in a box of beat up 1993 Pinnacle football cards.

GasHouseGang · #3 01-18-2016, 06:39 PM

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Originally Posted by ajjohnsonsoxfan

Brian you got me...that was my early April fools joke. This is a reprint set my son and I glued to a board and had framed. Would be great to find a complete Goudey set at a yard sale though...!

I had a feeling, but I thought it might be possible. I guess you got me.

ls7plus · #4 01-19-2016, 05:49 PM

I used to have a connection with a friend who regularly handled estate sales and had him on the alert to watch for baseball cards and/or memorabilia. All he ever came up with in years of looking were '80's cards. I think its just been known for too long that these items can be of significant value for significant items to pop up in these venues, except on very, very rare occasions.

Regards,

Larry

RobDerhak · #5 06-04-2016, 05:38 PM

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=209064

Hasn't happened since...but this was just last year...I have had some decent scores since then...same Estate Sale company had a sale a couple months back where every card was $3...some decent stuff, best being a G-VG '69 Bench, but I also did get a '69 Bert Campaneris & '69 Freddie Patek that are at PSA right now that I think may get 9's (Campy may actually get a 10) for $3 each...but most of what was at that one was junky 80s/90s

T205Guy · #6 06-04-2016, 09:46 PM

Several years ago at an estate sale I picked up an album with nearly complete sets of all three T87 Wings Cigarette cards. They were neatly mounted with "photo" corners and were in EXMT condition. I also picked up a Jackie Robinson bat (EX) and a Sal Maglie glove also in (EX) condition. I paid $3.00 for the lot! I also had some luck two years ago at a small antique/thrift store in VA when I picked up a T205 Wilhelm (suffe ed) glued to a piece of scrapbook paper for $20.00. I soaked it off and it graded Authentic due to some paper loss.

slidekellyslide · #7 06-04-2016, 10:47 PM

I got a Nolan Ryan rookie at a tag sale a few years back...on the SECOND day of the sale. I skipped the first day and attended the second day where everything was half off. They had about 40 small stacks of cards rubber banded together for a couple bucks each, I hit about 5 or 6 of them and found the Ryan rookie. I didn't even look through the rest, I just picked up the shoe box and took all of them. The Ryan rookie was the best card in the lot, but there were a lot of stars too, like Frank Robinson, Roger Maris, Tony Perez, et cetera.

Just last year I hit it big at a garage sale with a ton of 1950s cards including about 200 near mint to mint 1957 Topps cards. I paid about 10 cents each for them. Sold them to a card shop in Omaha for a lot of dough, I'm sure he made a ton on them, but I don't submit to PSA and he does.

If we're talking about local auctions I've made a lot of great scores. Just last year I picked up a photo/scrapbook album of former major leaguer Bill Davidson which included a bunch of photos of himself with other major leaguers, some real photo postcards of Brooklyn players including Zach Wheat which was signed on the back "Buck Wheat". There was also a World Series ticket stub in there from 1913, the game between Mathewson and Plank which went 9 scoreless innings. Matty drove in a run in the 10th and then went out and shut the A's down for the 10 inning shutout.

My best find ever was a Tris Speaker game used bat picked up at a local auction about 6 or 7 years ago. I didn't know it was a gamer until I posted pictures of it to Net54 though.

I've made way too many finds at flea markets to mention all of them, but my best finds include, A Dog's Head cigarette pack, 2 Cameo Pepsin pins that were dead mint, and an early Portland PCL team cabinet photo that was HUGE..the largest cabinet photo I've ever seen.

I don't think it's pure luck to find this stuff though, it's perseverance. I hit garage sales, tag sales, auctions, antique shows and flea markets weekly.

rjackson44 · #8 06-05-2016, 06:29 AM

I love sales and have found a lot of things. Mainly antiques and my vintage toys you never know😎👍

tschock · #9 06-09-2016, 01:11 PM

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Originally Posted by slidekellyslide

I don't think it's pure luck to find this stuff though, it's perseverance. I hit garage sales, tag sales, auctions, antique shows and flea markets weekly.

What Dan said above about sums it up best. Almost too many to count for me. I can find something of real value at least twice a month, though not always card related.

So what if you don't find pre-war stuff. You don't think you can turn a pack fresh '76 Payton RC, ALL the '72 FB high number IA cards (Namath, etc) in NM condition, very nice late '60s and early '70s Bobby Orr Topps and OPC cards, '30s Mickey Mouse cards (with one of the booklets), TWO ticket stubs from Bunning's Father's Day perfect game, et al into cash for pre-war baseball cards? All these and more that I've come across in separate instances for pennies on the dollar. Not to mention toys, comics, etc. You just have to expand your searching a little.

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