ALERT....huge, huge BB card collection theft....UPDATED

[tedzan]

A long-time friend of mine (and perhaps some of you) arrived home this week to find his house broken into. The better part
of his BB card collection was stolen. It includes vintage BB & post-war cards that he has collected over the past 40 years.

I'm posting this here to alert everyone, in hopes that this collection might be recovered. Here are the highlights of it........

100+ Old Judge's

521-card T206 set....includes Plank (70 cards are Graded)....in Ex (or better) condition

T201, T202, T205 and T207 sets

1920's Strip (W-type) cards......these, and all above T-cards are in the small size top-loader plastics.

1933-36 Goudey sets in Near Mint condition

1951-1970's Topps sets, including a Near Mint, near complete 1952 Topps set Master set (the Mantle has a minute pinhole).

Most HOFer's and Rookie cards from 1951 - 1970's (in Near Mint condition)

All Mantle cards from 1951 - 1969.

I will try to include more specifics of this collection as they are relayed to me. Please be on the look-out for such a large (or
parts of this) collection.


Any help in recovering this collection will be greatly appreciated.

TED Z

[ullmandds]

Oh how terrible...what part of the country, Ted?

[Chicago206]

Oh man! What part of the country? I hope he has a written list of cert numbers to make tracking the possible sales of these stolen cards easier! This is a big bummer.

[Mikehealer]

Hi Ted
What city or state did the theft occur?

[3-2-count]

This just makes me sick to my stomach to hear!!!!

[barrysloate]

Any theft is a terrible violation, but the size and scope of this is monumental. What a horror.

[tedzan]

" What city or state did the theft occur? "

Upstate New York....and, the house was "protected" with a well-known Alarm system (which was disabled by the thieves).

[D. Bergin]

That's just awful news. Hopefully whoever took the collection tries to flip it quick. A collection like this doesn't just show up somewhere un-noticed.

[Matt]

Unfortunate news.

Posting scans of some of the key cards will provide us the best opportunity to help with recovery. Otherwise, we wouldn't have much way to know if a card we're looking at was stolen from him or not.

[Bridwell]

Ouch! Terrible news.

I'd recommend he put together some identifying characteristics of certain cards or sets. As a group, this board can be on the lookout for them when they eventually are resold.

Ron R