More “attic finds”
 

Pretty sure I just got done reading about the 94th and 95th amazing “attic finds” in the past five years. Don’t folks occasionally make miraculous finds in other rooms of the house? Is a “basement find” somehow less exciting from a marketing point of view? Or a “garage find”? Do people believe all these cards and other things were really found in attics hidden away?

I like to toss a few cards in the attic every now and then just so I can discover them when I'm really bored. So I discover cards in the attic all the time Steve. :D

I'm waiting for the one where an elderly man who still uses a metal detector on the beach unearths a tin box full of Wagner T206s that was buried by Wagner himself because provenance.

This really did happen!!
.... well, sort of....

It was actually an elderly man that was losing his sight and metal detecting in a flower pot, when behold, he unearthed not only a tin full of pack-fresh T206 Wagners.... there was also an accompanying Ty Cobb tin full of high-grade T206 Cobb with Cobb back cards. A detailed note was also found, explaining how the pair agreed that all was forgiven for the '09 Series, and that they - hand in hand and while singing Take Me Out to the Ball Game in unison - personally placed these cards. :D

I think it's somehow related to every ghost being a civil war soldier if a man or lady in a white Victorian dress. Nobody is ever haunted by an unruly hippie ghost.

At Huggins & Scott we've had plenty of trunk finds.

Here's a recent eBay find of a Nonsports version of the Honus Wagner:
https://forum.vintagenonsports.com/p...pid=1306224616

Or said another way:

"How come in former lifetimes, everyone is someone famous?"

- Crash Davis, Bull Durham

Come to think of it I don't think I've ever been in my attic, maybe there's something up there.

About 20 years ago my son found two bank bags full of 1930-40's era golf balls and tees in the floor joists in the basement of a sorority house in Athens, Ga. He made a little on the sale of the balls, we still have the tees. :D

Everyone was Cleopatra or Julius Caesar. No one was ever the guy picking up the elephant shit at the end of the parade honoring Caesar.

Last winter we remodeled our kitchen. Once I sealed off the ceiling with drywall and blew in the insulation, I remember I left an old broom and a pair of pliers up there. Yeah, not digging around for them.

However, there's a major find for the next person who goes up there many years from now.

In a house I once lived in I used the drop ceiling as a hiding place/storage for cards with some value. I had to go back after I sold the house and ask if they would mind if I grabbed something I left in the drop ceiling! Luckily they were nice about it, but if I hadn't remembered that would have been a ceiling find someday.

Attic find sounds better than most other room finds. My guess is that some attic finds are actually garage finds in disguise. To that point I think we continue to see new to the hobby "finds" for quite a few years to come. It keeps the vintage market a bit more exciting than if no finds were left to be had.

fridge find?

Is anyone familiar with the “Florida Election Find”? Apparently a cash of T205 commons were found In Miami-Dade county while looking for Democratic votes in the governors and Senate race with a rare Bill Nelson card. And also a rare back Rick Scott card stuffed in the ballots. Apparently they were deemed counterfeit as the signiatures on the ballots containing the cards did not match the ballot. Similar thing happened in Arizona.

I found $71 and an old porn mag in my basement celing about a year after moving in. Lol

For the record he didn't buy that house from me.

I'm going to leave a pile of 1991 Topps in my attic now so when we move out years from now, someone can find them and have false hopes for a few minutes.

Throw in a beckett from 91 as well so they'll be jacked for at least 5 minutes.

Toss in a few porn mags and .....never mind

I believe attic find has become a term much like garage sale that encompasses more than what is spelled out in the name. That said a lot of old houses have secure attics but leaky basements so storing things for decades Undamaged is far more likely in the attic of a home than the basement. Attics are also less accessible generally and as people age they are less likely to go into attics and root around etc therefore things getting lost in them for decades especially in homes passed down through the same family. So I do believe an attic is a far more likely place to find vintage collections hidden away in trunks or old boxes or drawers.