Best story on where that card came from.........

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Posted By: Anson

I thought it would be fun to see if anyone had any great "find" stories or interesting ways of stumbling across a favorite vintage card. Other than the ebay reprint stories, "granny's attic", "flea-market find", "grandpa's tackle box", or behind the framed art, what are some of your REAL finds?

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Posted By: john/z28jd

I once found a vg Dick Kokos 54 bowman under the cabinets my dad ripped out of a house.In retrospect i shouldve got a common card from whatever year that happened(around 1987 i think)and put it under the new cabinets he put in.At the time the Kokos was my oldest card so despite him being a nobody it was pretty cool to find

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Posted By: Daniel Bretta

The only OJ cards I own all came out of a scrapbook that my dad bought at an auction in the early 1980's. (Brouthers, Mattimore, and Deasley). The Scrapps Comiskey that I posted a pic of yesterday came from a scrapbook my mom found at the Goodwill.

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Posted By: Dave

My story sounds like one you would never beleive on ebay. It wasn't my grandfather, but it was that generation. It was the great uncle of my wife. And, there really was a trunk in the attic. It wasn't a lost collection, just a storage place.

My father-in-law got the collection from his uncle as the uncle got older, with the uncle's consent, from the trunk. My FIL never bought any more, bit did put all the cards into vinyl holders in a notebook.

The collection: About 500 T206's, about 100 of which were duplicates. Mostly VG + grades, no rarities. About 100 T205's in G condition, which may be a little generous. Also about 20 T210's, all from Virginia, mostly G condition. One of these became Ben's lost Zimmerman.

My MIL moved across country, from Virginia. Helping her unpack, she handed me the notebook with all the cards. So, it does happen. I've been filling out the monser collection, only missing 3 cards to complete the set, minus the big ones.

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Posted By: bruce Dorskind

I first began collecting super rare cards in top condition when I was
24 in 1975.

I started by targeting rare type cards- early on I owned George Miller's
US Caramel, Plows candy etc. In 1977 I purchsed Just So Four Base
Hits from a teenage dealer named Rob Lifson.

A loyal Trader Speaks susbcriber...I was fascinated by Buck barker's
1978 article on the super rare Boston garters.

I learned of a Christy Matthewson card in the hands of a Phiadephia
school teacher...

Long before the web, I used to call or write every other month for
nearly 3 years.

Finally, one late June day he told me that he and his family (wife and
two kids) were going to Europe, and he would call me in September.

I offered to pay for all the airline tickets in return for my treasured
1912 (still unique) Garter of Christy in his knee high Garter.

Whilst it took two years of my time and considerable money for the
day (more than anyone had ever paid except for one the top rare cards

it proved to me how persistance pays...and one should always chase
his dreams...even if they are Old Cardboard wearing a Garter


What''s your story?

Bruce

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Posted By: T206Collector

...were purchased of a friend of my best friend's cousin. He had an old cigar box with about 30-40 T206 cards in about VG-EX condition. He wanted $500 to go to Vegas, so I gave him the money. And he gave me a Matty white cap and a Bender portrait. The Matty graded a 5 and the Bender a 4.

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Posted By: davidcycleback

My mom bought a William Hogarth (famous 18th century British painter) engraving at a garage sale for $3. She had little idea what it was and said if the sticker said $5 she would have passed ... Soon after I visited her and asked why she had the print on her dining room table (She doesn't leave things lying around). She said she was going to cut off the side borders so it would fit into frame she got at Target. I suggested it might be better to get a larger frame.

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Posted By: J Levine

is rather simple...I like to read. About 15 years ago I was in a used bookstore in Pasadena, CA and was glancing through a 1950s edition of Huck Finn...as I flipped the pages a card fell out...a '55 Bowman Willie Mays...must have been used as a bookmark and forgotten by some child in the '50s...I would have loved to find a name in the book and try to return the card for the heck of it but alas, no name. I did offer to pay the book seller for the "extra" bookmark and he laughed...I paid $5 for the book and the card...still have the card...gave the book to a teacher friend.

Joshua

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Posted By: Daniel Bretta

I've often wondered how many treasures may be hiding in old books. It would seem natural to me that a smoker who couldn't care less about the cards would use them for bookmarks. Any time I am at an estate auction I will flip through the old books to see if there's anything hiding inside. I did find an old photo in an 1870's religious book once, but I've never found anything substantial.

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Posted By: Julie

Good deals, bargains, reduced prices, great buys on eBay--but never a bequest, an old abandoned box, a generous relative (my mother's brother collected--his grandchildren have them), a card in a book (I buy LOTS of second-hand books!), a fruiitful flea market or garage sale...never, nothing...

I've often daydreamed and wondered about what i would do if i were suddenly offered something for almost nothing...but I guess I'll never find out!

This is what I'd like to find (fat chance!):


It's a rare English postcard of the Canadiens' only goalkeeper fronm 1910-25. Was 30K at one time..that was years ago.

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Posted By: Adam J. Moraine

Nothing yet, I always have dreams of checking out the attic of our 1886 home and HOPEFULLY discovering some 19th century cards.

Best regards,

adam J. Moraine

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Posted By: leon

Great story about the '12 Boston Garter Matty. It's not unique though. There is another and it too has been sold in the last year or two. You may ask Jonathan Freund (sp?) about it.....he sold it but I don't want to say who the buyer was. The one you consigned was in better condition than the other one ...and the other one was found with a group of 8-9 different '12 Garters ..regards