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Your best find at an Estate Auction
Posted By: Keith
Dan's brother's Ed Weir find got me thinking (not even sure if it was an estate auction find), but what was the best thing you ever found on estate auction. I know I personally acquire things 1 of 4 ways, estate auctions, ebay, flea markets/yard sales/house sales, or auction houses like hunts, mastro, etc. |
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Your best find at an Estate Auction
Posted By: Dan Bretta
1929 A's Panorama |
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Your best find at an Estate Auction
Posted By: brock
At a local auction i payed $45 for a Larry Berra bat which later turned out to be game used. Very rare. I also picked up a Mickey Mantle single-signed baseball. Payed $35 great deal. I have also picked up lots 944,945,946 in the current mastro auction, at a local auction. And the other day there was a couple of 1940's team signed baseballs. One was a 1942 albany senators ball with Kiner. And another ball had Hank greenberg and Billy Herman i believe but i dont think the person who won them knew about them. I should have made hima offer on that ball. The lot sold for $170. There was a total of 5 vintage baseballs and 3 new ones. |
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Your best find at an Estate Auction
Posted By: Dan Bretta
I actually have so many great finds...my brother was at an estate auction about two years ago and he called me up and asked me if I wanted something called a "baseball transfer" and I was thinking 1965 Topps baseball transfers so I said no, then he called me back a few minutes later and told me I should come to this auction because there were some autographed baseballs so I decided to go to the auction...when I got there I noticed a trophy from the Sioux City Soos and I asked the auctioneer who the auction was for and they said "The Bruner family"...I walked around a while until I noticed a lady that was going inside the house and I asked her if this was her auction and she said yes, I then asked her who the baseballs and trophy belonged to and she said they were her dad's Jack Bruner. |
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Your best find at an Estate Auction
Posted By: brock
Dan |
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Posted By: Dan Bretta
They were not player endorsed bats...one said "Winner" on it and I think the other one said "Boys JR" on it...they are around somewhere lost in the sea of bats. |
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Your best find at an Estate Auction
Posted By: brock
Dan |
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Your best find at an Estate Auction
Posted By: Dan Bretta
Brock, not at the moment. It's my only Cobb. |
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Your best find at an Estate Auction
Posted By: Joseph
Hey Dan, |
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Your best find at an Estate Auction
Posted By: Dan Bretta
Joe, he's much better than I am at finding stuff...of course he is much more dedicated to looking for it and for that I am grateful. He attends at least 5x the amount of estate sales than I do. Usually if the ad doesn't say something about sports memorabilia I won't attend and oftentimes he finds it because it wasn't listed in the auction writeup. I just don't have the patience that he does. |
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Your best find at an Estate Auction
Posted By: Alan Elefson
Hi- |
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Your best find at an Estate Auction
Posted By: George Dreher
There have been many. I would say the most gratifying was in Hartford, Connecticut back in 1972. A complete T206 set, condition ranging from Very Good to Near Mint. It was the childhood collection of an old gent who had just passed away. As far as baseball memorabilia, about 1980 in a small town near Seattle, I purchased a game-used glove collection originating from the 1930s. About 100 gloves, some belonged to Hall of Famers including one Johnny Mize used his rookie year. |
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Your best find at an Estate Auction
Posted By: Max Weder
Not an estate find, but my friend found a near mint Matty kid's glove at a Goodwill store in Seattle |
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Your best find at an Estate Auction
Posted By: joe
Here are a few. When I bought the Orange Tigers, they were painted a dark brown. I used goof-off on them and look what I found. |
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Your best find at an Estate Auction
Posted By: Mike H
What do those pennants on the top of the Tiger's backs say? By any chance is the pennant available for trade or purchase...hee hee? |
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Your best find at an Estate Auction
Posted By: joe
The pennants say "1934 Pennant Detroit World Series" None of these items are for sale or trade at this time. |
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Your best find at an Estate Auction
Posted By: Mike H
Great stuff Joe. I've seen the 34 pennant and doorstops before, but don't believe I've seen the bookends. Is that Cobb on the trophy? |
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Your best find at an Estate Auction
Posted By: Paul Grubor
A few years back a lady running an estate sale called my store and asked me about bobbing head dolls. She was preparing for the sale and had no idea about nodders/prices etc. I told her to bring them in and I'd make her an offer. She brought in these four in PRISTINE SHAPE: Mantle, Clemente, Maris, and Mays. I offered her $800.00 on the four and she almost passed out. |
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Posted By: joe
Mike, yes that is Cobb on the trophy. 1913 trophy, these were given to high school teams for different events. It is a W.B. Jarvis item, Cobb was involved with 2 sporting goods stores for about 2 years. W.B. Jarvis was the Brand name used to sell everything from fishing, golf, tennis, football, Baseball and other sports items. The stores were located in Detroit and Grand Rapids, Michigan. |
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Posted By: Mike H
I'm in Ann Arbor Joe, where are you? |
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