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04-29-2022, 08:09 AM
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Not me, but my Pa...
When he was alive, he LOVED Garage Sales. He didn't know much about cards or prices of "STUFF", he just bought by instinct... Years ago, he knew that I collected OLD baseball cards and he came home with these for me as a gift... My jaw dropped to the floor. He never told me what he paid, but he didn't pay much for anything. (Jon Canfield is still after me for the TTT - Hey, Jon!) Thanks, Pa! Last edited by Eggoman; 04-29-2022 at 08:10 AM. Reason: typo 
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04-29-2022, 12:23 PM
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Cool Pieces and great memories he gave you
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Thanks all Jeff Kuhr https://www.flickr.com/photos/144250058@N05/ Looking for 1920 Heading Home Ruth Cards 1920s Advertising Card Babe Ruth/Carl Mays All Stars Throwing Pose 1917-20 Felix Mendelssohn Babe Ruth 1921 Frederick Foto Ruth Rare early Ruth Cards and Postcards Rare early Joe Jackson Cards and Postcards 1910 Old Mills Joe Jackson 1914 Boston Garter Joe Jackson 1911 Pinkerton Joe Jackson
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04-29-2022, 12:36 PM
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I have bought a fair number of junk wax stuff from garage sales for almost nothing, just for fun to open. Only time I found something good that wasn't priced as if it was the Shroud of Turin is a batch of boxing tobacco cards I bought. About 100 cards, nothing super rare, but cool to find old tobacco stuff that hadn't ever come to the hobby before. The gentlemen I got them from told me they were among his grandfathers possessions who was from New York; and was probably about the right age to be a card collecting kid in 1910. I've come across plenty of 50's stuff, but their owners have in my experience thought they were worth Mint prices when the cards are creased.
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04-29-2022, 01:35 PM
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Not many cards, but plenty of good finds at yard sales.
When I was doing ebay, I had a lot of finds of general stuff that did well. A lens collimator for $20, a Fred Harvey spoon$5 (sold for about 100!), Harley cylinder heads $40 for the pair... And stuff I kept. One had tools, and there was one i was sort of interested in. Then I saw a box with a router and some bits. $20 for the lot. On the way home my wife asked if I didn't already have a router. I did, more than one. But when it comes with 400+ worth of barely used bits for 20 I'm not passing it up.
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04-29-2022, 01:46 PM
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People throw lots of stuff away too
If you're willing to step around bags of mouldering trash to get to it. I once encountered gold jewelry mixed in with costume that always gets people's attention.
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04-30-2022, 01:32 AM
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Bought a box of books one time for $8 because it had several old history textbooks. It set in trunk of my newer car for a week. Brought it in and at the bottom was very old book. It was a dusty, but clean, 1st edition Mormon Text. Called my Vinyl guy because he was into books and he connected me to his book guy. I sent him a couple dozen pictures and he said he’d call me back. He didn’t - someone else did and 45 minutes later I Fedex’d the book to an office at BYU. The next day I paid off the car the book sat in for a week.
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Always looking for rare Tommy Bridges items.
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04-30-2022, 06:14 AM
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At the endless North Caralina Route 301 yardsale in 2019
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