View Full Version : How rare are the E271 Darby Chocolates?
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07-09-2007, 06:35 PM
Posted By: <b>Neal</b><p>If anyone has an example would love to see some!<br /><br />Thanks All!
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07-09-2007, 06:39 PM
Posted By: <b>Bobby Binder</b><p><img src="http://www.vintagecardprices.com/pics/2625/176717.jpg">
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07-09-2007, 06:41 PM
Posted By: <b>Neal</b><p>Bobby,<br /><br />Is that a full box like they use to come or cut out?
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07-09-2007, 06:50 PM
Posted By: <b>Bobby Binder</b><p>I do not own it but believe it is one of the cards that was restored. To my knowledge all of the cards where found in a garage with fire damage.
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07-09-2007, 06:55 PM
Posted By: <b>PaulPaulPaul</b><p>I believe that most were found in a burnt garage or barn, but not all of them. The Brown was one of the burnt ones and was restored. It is not the whole box. <br /><br />Most of the known players are one of a kind. There may be a few cases in which duplicates are known, but I'm not sure. There are very, very few complete boxes. Maybe 1, 2, or 3.
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07-09-2007, 07:13 PM
Posted By: <b>Bruce Babcock</b><p><img src="http://homepage.mac.com/thurber51/.Pictures/More%20Favorites/Darby.JPG"><br /><br />I've had this one about 10 years. Seldom offered for sale. As has been noted, there are a few complete boxes. This one is one of the ones from the barn fire.
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07-10-2007, 06:19 PM
Posted By: <b>Glen V</b><p>A couple more from saved Ebay pictures. The Cobb was restored. <br /><br /><img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1184026526.JPG"><br /><img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1184026546.JPG">
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07-10-2007, 07:19 PM
Posted By: <b>Aaron Seefeldt</b><p>There are approx. 7 full boxes known (with the most recent addition being the Cobb (fielding) that sold in REA in 2006).<br /><br />I sold most of mine years ago to a private collector in NY. He still has them all (including the Wagner box). Think he'd let me get those back? Not. The ones I didn't sell to this collector I sold to a collector/dealer who posts on this board from time to time. I know he sold all the ones I sold him except for the Walter (individual card).<br /><br />I currently don't own any <img src="/images/sad.gif" height=14 width=14><br /><br />
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07-10-2007, 09:30 PM
Posted By: <b>Anonymous</b><p>that I sold my type. It was Cole I believe and was from the barn find. I bought it from a Tom Slater's Political Gallery auction. I later sold it on eBay. It had not been restored. There was an aricle written by Lew I believe in his magazine venture that was made about the restoration of a group of cards from the find.
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07-10-2007, 10:22 PM
Posted By: <b>boxingcardman</b><p>at the 2004 National. It was a non-Hofer for $800 cut into a silhouette with the Darby logo still intact. Needless to say, I wish I'd pulled the trigger on that "piece" of history.