Variation on a theme--police seizure

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Posted By: Todd Schultz

This is a new one on me, seller says card obtained at police seizure sale. Bidding at $72 amongst a few pinheads:

http://cgi.ebay.com/1915-M101-5-BABE-RUTH-SPORTING-NEWS-151-ROOKIE-CARD_W0QQitemZ8759806012QQcategoryZ86841QQssPageNa meZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem


Anybody want one of these, I'll sell 'em all day long at half the current price, although it might be a little work to get them to look as torn, stained and creased

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Posted By: Anonymous

Everyone knows that criminals are experts in vintage cards, so I'm sure it's real.

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Posted By: leon

is stranger than fiction. The new experts in the vintage card hobby: police auctioneers.....move over SGC your time is limited.....

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Posted By: barrysloate

You know what - it looks real. But I think they seized it too forcefully and tore off a corner in the process.

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Posted By: Zach S.

Maybe the police seized it in a counterfeiting bust!

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Posted By: davidcycleback

I own a bunch of original photographs/negatives from when a famous
photographer left the country without paying his back rent and the
contents of his rental were auctioned off. I 'talked' via email to
the photographer later, but never mentioned the photos.

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Posted By: David Smith

This guy is also selling a Ty Cobb but I have no clue what it is supposed to be. Is it supposed to be a Willards or Star Player candy or what.

On the subject of rental auctions, Paris Hilton had some of her personal belongings in a rental storage facility and her parents were supposed to take care of paying for it. Ooops, they didn't and the contents were sold at auction. Included with the mundane items were supposedly more sex videos and a diary she kept of sex partners.

The diary is supposed to be filled with juicy info and the new owner is asking $20 million for it and the rest of the contents of the rental storage room. Sounds kind of like legal blackmail to me.....

David

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Posted By: warshawlaw

Where an oscar winner left several academy awards in a storage locker, the contents were sold sight unseen at auction, and the happy auction winner woke up to about $100K in goods. The academy and the winner tried like heck to keep them off the market, but to no avail.

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Posted By: Zach S.

I found a Ty Cobb w/ the same police seizure sale...

http://cgi.ebay.com/TY-COBB-BASEBALL-CARD_W0QQitemZ8759816796QQcategoryZ86841QQrdZ1QQcm dZViewItem

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Posted By: Howard

In the item description he writes, "As my other auctions I will start low with no reserve". It certainly sounds as if he has auctioned many items yet he does not have a single feedback comment from a buyer.