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Most of us get sheer delight out of digging through long forgotten boxes of cards that are squirreled away somewhere in our homes, with a renewed hope of pulling out something awesome. It's sort of the home version of stopping at a garage sale that has the strong possibility of cardboard being hidden among the tables.

In going through piles of stuff the last couple of days, I stumbled upon a bunch of O-Pee-Chee Hall of Famers I had completely forgotten about ever having. Although they would never grade out high (it sucks that my thoughts now immediately turn to grading) due to OPC's quality control department hitting the Labatts a little too hard, a little too early to have anything come out centered, they're pretty cool cards to have.

So, post something that you happened to have stumbled upon in your own universe. Not necessarily big money treasures, but things you were really happy to have rediscovered, like these 'new' OPC cards (one Koufax was a recent purchase, so he doesn't count)...

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Darren,
I have been going through my stuff too! I recently found these tucked away in one of those 1998 Topps Folders (Schmidt, of course). A friend made the "cachet" with photo, we numbered them, and destroyed the negative. He said he was keeping, #s 1, 500, and 548. I kept a few, and we sold/traded most of the rest to other Philly area collectors and dealers, WAY faster than we expected.
It would be interesting to see where they have migrated to in 30 years! I hadn't seen this since 2002-05 ish. Don't remember where the Grenada came from, but same deal.

Keep digging!

Jim

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I used to own a PSA 8 1965 Brock. It went missing and I thought i sold it. Years later I was moving some stuff in a cupboard and found it. Must've slipped out of a pile and fell just right to wedge between two boxes. I couldn't have made that drop on a dare but I did it by accident.

Not a card, but an uncle gave me a 1906-O Barber half dollar. It went missing for a while, and I figured it was gone for good, either stolen or lost. After it had been missing for a couple years, I was moving a couch, and it was underneath.

Serendipsity...
 

Going through a bottom drawer in an old desk yesterday, I found a small cardboard box stuck under a pile of plastic sleeves. I was dumbfounded to find these '52 B cards inside. Over the course of several decades, I had been constantly upgrading the set and disposing of duplicates online, until finally satisfied with the finished set. I thought all of the duplicates had been sold off long ago, and couldn't figure how these six - especially with half of them star cards - had hid in a drawer for so long. Thinking back about twelve years ago, a gall-bladder attack put me in the hospital and the opioid pain killers there played hob with my memory. Seems like these misplaced cards must have escaped as a result. Only G - VG, but maybe worth more now than they were then.

Ummm...you win. Thread closed.

Haha, yep.

52 Bowman Mantle
 

I had meant to buy a 1952 Bowman Mantle. My recollection was that I had never got around to it, and had moved on to other things.
I hadn't looked at my binder that is full of Yankee cards for a long time. One day I took a look, and there the 1952 Bowman Mantle was. I had bought it.
It probably grades around good/very good. I must have bought it around 1990, and I believe it was for around $200.

Damn, you stumbled upon two of my favorite cards ever--the '52 Bowman Musial and the '52 Bowman Mays. They are my favorite card of each player.
That's a good day when that happens....

A bunch of years ago, I realized that the card (hidden away in a box deep in the closet) I always thought was a 1956 Clemente, was actually his 1955 Rookie Card!!! It's in godawful shape (and has since come back a PSA 1), but it's awesome just to own it. That was a decent day...

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Wow, bonus Clemente Rookie is a good day indeed. Its one of the nicer 1s I've ever seen.

Wow, you guys happen to stumble upon 1952 Bowman HOF cards and a Clemente rookie!?!?!

Whenever I find a random box or binder I forgot about, it's always filled with 1988 Donruss cards....always. (Also, isn't it weird that 1988 Donruss is 34 years old now?)

I found this 1977 Hostess (I assume?) uncut 3 card panel sort of hidden in my Steve Carlton album of autographs and whatnot, so I figured I'd post it here to give the thread some new life. Surely, it's nothing special, but I would love for someone to tell me I'm wrong (I shan't be holding my breath)...

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Came across this surprise home find a few months back. Considering that fact that I was looking to buy this card when I found it in a box at home, I was quite happy. And it triggered a re-organizing effort.

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