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marty q o.k, my friend calls and says he has a friend who knows somebody who wants to sell his brothers baseball card collection because he dont want it anymore. i say ok great what is it, real old i am told, now many think real old is 1995, he says "no like 80 years old and stuff " wow i say to myself, i need to take a look, my friend gets him my # and he calls, we meet at a public place in staten island n.y., my old home town and right over the bridge for me, we meet shake hands and already i judge him, looks like he hasnt washed in weeks, very dirty and jumpy, i look at a binder full with about 60 pages, about 15 prewar pages and the rest 50's and 60's mostly, with some goudeys and etc etc, the pre war is beat up stuff p/g,(and thats being nice) with a red cobb and a port. young, as i ask questions he knows nothing?? zero, his brother told him to take it he dont want them anymore.??? nice brother i say to myself.....the rest were alot of h.o famers, vg-ex stuff, mantle aaron all of the stars from those era's.
i do think with all my heart that this was stolen goods!! i did not buy it, but i did lead him on that i was very interested, he wanted 4k, why that # i dont know, was it worth it, maybe, lots of cards with problems, you would need to sit and look over more closely, i would be sick if this was someones life long collection and it was stolen, alot of thoughts went throgh my mind, buy it and bring it to the police and see if they know of any stolen b.b. cards, buy it and put an add in the paper and see if someone claims it, (pretty sure my phone would have rang off the hook with that one) or tell him i would love to buy them give me a few days to see if i can get the money up,( just to by myself time) until i knew what way to go. again i have no doubt these are stolen, and it makes me sick for that person or even a kid who he and his dad have been building this for years.
anyone have advice or ( iknow it's a long shot) expierence with something like this??? or maybe i am ""dead"" wrong, crazier things have happened..
thanks fella's.....marty q.