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Posted By: warshawlaw

Judging from the boxing cards I saw and the smattering of baseball cards I managed to glance at, the collection would sell for millions. Inter-museum trades are one thing; simply removing items from museum collections is a tricky and expensive proposition. Owing to the mechanics of donations and charitable endeavor management, the museum would very likely have to go to court and obtain the permission of a judge to sell off a valuable part of its collection outright, especially one that was there for a long time and that was probably not donated with paperwork that would cover all the issues.

The auction would be a hell of a mess, though, in one respect: The cards are all pasted down on pages. I am willing to bet that some would be removable, many others not. I guess we'd all go through the whole disclosure-restoration-slabbing mess too...