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Stories about great "Finds" Please Share
Posted By: rand
the stories behind the finds are fascinating to me. this is the part of the hobby that i really enjoy. Mastro & REA do a great job in their descriptions when "new" cards to the hobby are introduced. Please share some stories about "finds" if you would. regards rand |
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Posted By: brian
there was a find in Florida a few years ago. Some old man brought a cigar box full of T206 into a baseball card shop. Later they went to auction and sold for a ton of money. I forget which cards were in the box. |
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Posted By: joe brennan
Leon has a great find story called the trucker find. I know he posted it many times before, but for new members, I'm sure he'd post it again. Leon, you can thank me later for volunteering you. |
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Posted By: leon
Well...there are some new folks so I will cut and paste it again....Probably the biggest "outside the hobby" find I will ever have. The guy I got them from drove an 18 wheeler, therefore I named it the "Trucker Boy" find...His father collected them as a kid....It's been about 3yrs since I got them...and many are still in my collection...... |
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Posted By: MVSNYC
well, my "great find" involves one card. |
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Posted By: RC
I may have shared this on Net54 already but this is a good story I think and fits the thread. |
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Posted By: Jeff Mohler
About 2-3 years ago, right after I got back into the hobby, I noticed a public sale advertisement that included "three old baseball cards". I went to the sale, more out of curiosity than any thing else. It turned out that the cards were three Pinkerton postcards. I didn't know what they were and neither did anyone else at the sale. I paid $20.00 each. I got a Tinker, Jennings and Rucker. Board members here quickly identified them for me. |
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Posted By: barrysloate
I 've had dozens of great finds over the years, and wouldn't know where to begin. Most of the biggest ones were in the 1980's and 90's, mostly involving original groups of T205 and T206. And since it is always someone else's family's collection and they have called me, it's unclear exactly how much finding I have actually done. Nevertheless, here is a bunch of them: |
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Posted By: leon
My 5 Crofts Candy, red backed cards, came from a late night meeting of an 80 yr old man in a Kroger parking lot...about 20 miles away from me. Not really a "find" but a darn good pick up.....and more than doubled the known pop of them...I sold one duplicate and paid for all of them by 2x.... |
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Posted By: Mike Ernst
1100 T-205 and T206 cards in a corn flakes box (box was only 50's vintage) in 1971--from a farmer in Max, ND, who had collected them as a kid in New York City. Had to force $20 on him--he wanted to give them away because he had been looking for some years for someone who had an interest in them. No Wagner, several Cobbs, almost all Peidmont and Sweep Cap--must be all they smoked in NYC. |
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Posted By: Trae R.
"Had to force $20 on him--he wanted to give them away because he had been looking for some years for someone who had an interest in them..." |
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Posted By: Bryan Long
Not even really a "find" by any means. Had my brother attend an auction for me in Kansas. He manged to pick up about 12 Pinkerton postcards for $5. NOt fine bucks each, but $5 for the whole lot. Had Lajoie, Matty, a couple of Evers and more - they are since gone - but I did make one heck of a nice profit! |
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Posted By: David Smith
I wish I had known about Pinketon Post Cards in my younger days. Remembering back, I can think of at least 20 I have read about in different auctions. I was always told that they were produced at a much later time and weren't really worth anything. |
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Posted By: Mike
When I was about 10 years old or so, a neighborhood kid who just had his 16th birthday, Took "large" ( a couple thousand cards I am sure) boxes of baseball cards, he had collected, and dumped them into a swamp, which was located across the street from where I lived. His reasoning " I am a man now, so I don't have a use for these anymore". Then flung them into the water. Luckily the wind blew some of them on to dry land. He knew I loved cards, and why he didn't just give them to me, is beyond me. That was in 1964. I still have some of the water stained cards. They were all early to mid 50's I am sure. or most anyway. All in great shape. So I begain running around trying to grab all I could. I recall a couple Mantle cards floating among the cat tails. |
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Posted By: David Smith
No, Mike, we are DEVO D E V O |
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Posted By: Anonymous
1998- 5 1912 Boston Garters for 50 dollars= Mathewson, Johnson, Walsh, Rucker, Laporte |
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Posted By: Jim Clarke
Are we talking about FINDS or STEALS? It seems like all finds are noramlly steals. I would like to here about a find where somethng close to market price was paid.... |
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Posted By: Mark
Back in 1992 i was at a flea market in CT. I was walking out and noticed a guy selling about 200-300 T206 cards. They were all in a big box lined up. I don't remember the players but they all in EX shape. He wanted $5 a piece for them. I was with my girlfriend and she was rushing to get out of there. Needless to say, i just glanced at a few and walked out with NO cards. That will teach me to be rushed by her again. |
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Posted By: davidcycleback
A few years ago a famous foreign photographer skipped the country (USA) leaving much of his personal belongings behind. To pay for unpaid bills, his landlord auctioned off his belongings and I obtained a large portion of his photograph archives. I posted and described one of the photos on my website and was contacted by a movie producer producing a small movie on the photographer's life. He asked if I would provide some images for the documentary, which I did. Tipped by the producer, I was subsequently contacted by the photographer, living in a foreign country, who asked for scans of the photos I owned. I him sent a CD of the images. He never asked for the photos themselves, and I still own most of them. |
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Posted By: peter chao
Barry, |
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Posted By: barrysloate
You can't actually look for finds. I have always been contacted by the people who have them. And it is harder today, but there is still stuff out there. |
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Posted By: boxingcardman
Jeff: the Pinkerton I have shows Tinker as mgr. of the Chicago Federals (#208). |
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Posted By: peter chao
Guys, |
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Posted By: Bill Todd
Peter C.: |
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Posted By: peter chao
Bill, |
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Posted By: Alan
Many of the "finds" are stories like Michael's story. They'll find something that they buy & resell it for more money thru ebay, private sales, auction house, etc,... - actually that's the definition of a dealer, right ? |
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Posted By: RC
I would also add that sometimes, at least in my case, the seller (friend) knows I'm not a heavy hitter with cards financially and made me a good deal. We were both happy but there's no question he could have at least doubled or perhaps tripled his money had he wanted to take the time to advertise or use ebay. |
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Posted By: Bill Todd
Peter, |
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Posted By: David Smith
Peter, |
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Posted By: Jim
Well, not baseball cards and not vintage by y'alls standards but last year I bought 11 intact and 4 broken 1955 Big League Stars/Dairy Queen statues (including Mantle - 1 broken and 1 intact)..........all for 25 cents each. They were in a box with other multi-colored baseball cake toppers. I picked one up, read Roy Campanella on the bottom and realized that I had seen these before. And get this, this was in an antique store! |
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Posted By: Dave
In 1998 my brother and I saw an ad in the classified section of the paper advertising an auction in Richmond, Indiana. The reason we went was to check out the WWII guns. I ended up being one of two bidders on a Cobb bat off shoulder that was VG/EX. I won the card for $87. |
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