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Hi everyone!

Recently my Mom pulled out her Grandfather's old baseball cards with the intent of probably selling them. After receiving an offer of $1400 for all the cards (approx 220 of them) we decided to do some research to see if they might be worth more than that.

I started an online gallery of the cards and have about half of them loaded so far. I hope to be finished this weekend getting them all uploaded. Some of the photos are a little distorted. I assure you the cards are not bowed or skewed as some of them look. My Mom had them stored in sheets of plastic sleeves and I photgraphed them a sheet at a time which means the end ones got a little distorted. I didn't want to handle the cards individually and photographing them all individually would have taken forever.

I plan on taking requests to individually photgraph the potentially more valuable cards to be able to allow a better look at them.

I realize this is a forum of collectors, and I am technically only the inheritor of a collection we plan to sell, but I figured I'd get more honest advice here than if I contacted more of the commercial type buyers and auction houses.

Essentially I'd love to know if there are any gems amongst our cards, if there are some that are worth paying to have graded before I sell them, and any other advice anyone is willing to offer. It breaks my heart that the T205 Ty Cobb looks like someone carried it around in their pocket!

I've done some research online so I do have some general ideas about the different types of cards. Actually, the ones I can find the least information about are what I have determined are Caramel E102's. They are not branded and say they are a set of 25 players. If I remember correctly, I've got another 8 or so of them that I haven't uploaded yet to add to the 9 already up. Also, one of them, the Magee, has a very strange back to it. It says something about prize-fighters, but is off-center.

Here is the website link to the gallery so far. Check back later in the weekend if you are interested, by Sunday evening I plan on having the rest of the cards put in.
http://www.kegski.us/tobaccocards/index.php

Thanks everyone in advance for any advice!