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I stopped into a card shop I had never been to before, in an unnamed NJ town on Tuesday and it was a real tiny place. With my friend and the owner in the store, the place was crowded.

I looked around, then asked the guy if he had anything vintage and he showed me some cards from the 50's-70's. I said do you have anything older and he mentioned he had just sold some Playball cards. So I said, I collect T206 cards and he went in the back and said he might have something interesting, some strip cards.

He came out and handed me a small pile of W516-1 cards, so I looked. Common, common, common, common, Ray Schalk, Tris Speaker, Walter Johnson and Ty Cobb!

So calmly I asked prices on them and he said, hmmm, not sure and disappeared...sort of. The back of his store was half the size of the front so I could still see him.

Unfortunately, this story has an unhappy ending. Five minutes later, he found them in his big Beckett Price Guide.

$50 each for the commons and Schalk(not a bad price because it was nice)
$300 Speaker
$500 Cobb and Johnson