Great Finds Thread

[Bpm0014]

What am I missing on the Ganley? And why was it such a great deal? I think the scan is too small.

[bn2cardz]

Originally Posted by Bpm0014

What am I missing on the Ganley? And why was it such a great deal? I think the scan is too small.

http://www.sterlingsportsauctions.co...entoryid=17237

Ganley with a P350 back is tough. The P350 back isn't that hard for most subjects, it is actually rather common, but on some it is very difficult.

[nickedson]

Great thread. My greatest find came in 1979 when I walked in our collectible's store and the guy tells me he has a box of old postcards and pins for me for $400. That was quite a bit of money for a young sportswriter back then, but I did a quick look and agreed to make the purchase. I got 53 Rose Company postcards, with 51 different. Also had 3 A.C. Dietsche postcards sets - 2 Tigers and 1 Cubs. Several different old Wolverine Tigers postcards, some University of Michigan football postcards. 17 Buster Brown Detroit Tigers pins, including 2 Cobbs and 47 P-3 pins in nice shape. I'd love to make that kind of find today.

[packs]

I purchased this signed Grover Alexander baseball for $80 and later sold it to a board member:

[insccollectibles]

After seeing what the brown old mill just sold for $20,000 bought for $51 on ebay. I was hoping to revive this thread there has to be more great find stories out there

[Jason]

Mine is nothing in comparison to other stories but here goes. My best find was 2 T210 Orange Border cards listed as faded Reds for 55.00 apiece. So the seller overpriced and underpriced all in the same listing

[trdcrdkid]

I don't know if this really counts as a "find", but the two Lenox T206s in my collection were among the first five T206s I got back around 1979-81. I think I got one of them from a neighborhood kid in a trade for something or other, and the other might have been among my brother's collection (including lots of other cards from the 1950s to 70s) that I bought from him in 1981 for $80 so he could buy an Atari video game system. He might have gotten his Lenox from the same neighborhood kid. We had no idea that Lenox backs were rare; to us, they were just T206s, which we considered exotic enough by themselves. Only when I got back into collecting more than a decade later did I realize what I had, and put them into plastic sleeves.

Probably the best finds where I knew what I was getting came in the late 90s at the National Trade Card Convention in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. There were a lot of ephemera dealers, mostly selling trade cards, some with non-sport tobacco cards and similar stuff, including a few with a handful of baseball tobacco cards. One year there was a guy going around with a couple of Old Judges in pretty good condition that he was trying to sell, but none of the dealers were interested. I asked him what he wanted for them, and he said $50 for the pair. That was a fantastic deal even then, so I pulled out my wallet and gave him $50 on the spot. Another time, maybe the same year, there was a table that had some T206s in a box for $15 apiece, in about VG condition. They were mostly commons, but among them were a Griffith portrait and an Evers with Cubs on shirt, which I snapped up. I think they were my first T206 Hall of Famers.

[Rich Klein]

Originally Posted by Bpm0014

What am I missing on the Ganley? And why was it such a great deal? I think the scan is too small.

THose look like the 2002 Topps 206 cards which were placed into special holders and then randomly inserted into those packs

Rich