If memory serves me correctly, a Net54 board memory actually did find a very rare five figure mid 1800s salt print photo of baseball pioneers in a barn or similar building. He had recently purchased the land and was refurbishing the building. The photo was unsigned. The photo was real and museum quality, and, in that case, barn provenance didn't add anything to the value. If anything it would have subtracted, with most collectors preferring something more glamorous and historical. Only with modern fakes does having been "found in grandma's cabinet drawer" (the old baseball card cliche) or "back of a garage next to a pile of empty paint cans" add to the resale value. If a genuine 1914 Cracker Jack Ty Cobb or Old Judge Cap Anson card was really discovered in a grandmother's cabinet, I'd bet $5 the experienced seller wouldn't mention the provenance it at sale or say "No, seriously. I'm seriously not kidding you."
Last edited by drcy; 02-09-2015 at 03:24 PM.
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