Garage Sales , Estate Sales

[Kzoo]

My Mother, of all people, found a stack of old cards wrapped with a fragile rubber band at an old guy's estate sale a couple years ago. She 'took a chance' on the cards for $1. Upon showing me her purchase the next day, I was shocked and began drooling. Unfortunately they weren't baseball, but instead T80 Tolstoi Military series tobacco cards (there's an image of one in the upper right hand corner of Net54 advertising the non-sport forum).....there was 90 of them and they are beautiful!! They have the same gold boarders as T205's and luckily there were enough of them to complete the 50 card set which I have on PSA's set registry....the only one. Most of the cards graded were in the 5-7 range with a couple 8's. My Mother made a deal with me up front that any proceeds down the road would have to be split with her......and I'm ok with that, but for now I'm just enjoying the cards..........Matt

[milkit1]

id like to take this opportunity to thank Steve for the awesome deal he gave me on the Beantown find. im sure Im not the only one

[deadballera]

found this at and Antique Mall

$3.00

[GrayGhost]

Originally Posted by deadballera

found this at and Antique Mall

$3.00

My antique malls are all picked out.

[cardinalcollector]

In 1976 I bought a complete set of 1952 Royal Premiums (to a Royal Star) from an antique shop in St. Charles, MO for $2. I sold it 2 weeks later to John Mehlin who ran the Kansas City card shows in the mid 1970s for $25. Its worth around $500 today.

[ruth-gehrig]

I guess I had a little find about a year ago. In an antique/flea market I found a Mickey Mantle Motel ashtray from Mantle's Holiday Inn in Joplin Missouri. The lady was asking $18 she accepted $15. Put it on ebay and it brought $150.

[cubsguy1969]

I made a cool find at an estate sale on Friday. Bought a large folder full of original Jack Dempsey photos (mostly wire photos) that date back to the 1920s. There's one of him with Babe Ruth. The guy running the sale knew they had some value so I had to pay $400. But there are about 80 photos, so I think I got a good deal at 5 bucks a photo. Probably be listing them on ebay in the coming weeks if there are any boxing collectors out there.

Rob

[deadballera]

.