My grandfather's old baseball cards.
 

Hello. I wanted to share my grandfather's old baseball cards. Take a look and let me know what you think.

Pics of the cards.

Abbaticchio, Pittsburg
Abbott, Toledo X2
Absetin, Pittsburg
Adkins, Baltimore
Alperman, Brooklyn
Anderson, Providence X2
Arellanes, Boston Amer X2
Arnot, Providence X2
Atz, Chicago Amer X2
Barry, Phila Amer
Beck, Boston Natl
Beckley, Kansas City X2
Bender, Phila Amer
Bergen, Brooklyn
Bescher, Cincinnati X2
Blackburne, Providence
Bliss, St. Louis Natl
Bowerman, Boston Natl
Brain, Buffalo
M. Brown, Chicago Natl
Burchell, Buffalo
Burns, Chicago Amer
Butler, Rochester X2
Camnitz, Pittsburgh
Campbell, Cincinnati
Carr, Indianapolis
Carrigan, Boston Amer
Casey, Montreal X2
Cassidy, Baltimore
Chappelle, Rochester
Chase, NY Amer X2
Clark, Columbus
Clymer, Columbus
Collins, Phila Amer
Cobb, Detroit
Congalton, Columbus
Cravath, Minneapolis X2
Cross, Indianapolis
M. Davis, Phila Amer X2
Delehanty, Louisville X2
Debbau, Baltimore
Donovan, Detroit
Dougherty, Chicago Amer
Downey, Cincinnati
Doyle, NY Natl
Dubuc, Cincinnati
Cobb, Detroit
Dormer, Kansas City
Easterly, Cleveland
Egan, Cincinnati
Elberfield, NY Amer
Ellam, Nashville
Engle, NY Amer
Fiene, Chicago Amer
Flannagan, Buffalo
Fletcher, NY Natl
Genzel, Rochester
Gasper, Cincinnati
Grimshaw, Toronto X2
Groom, Washington
Guiheen, Portsmouth
Hall, Baltimore
Hallman, Kansas City
Hannifan, Jersey City
Hayden, Indianapolis
Hinchman, Toledo
Hoblitzell, Cincinnati
Hoffman, Providence
Hoffman, St. Louis Amer
Howard, Chicago Natl
Howell, St Louis Amer
Hulswitt, St Louis Natl
Hunter, Brooklyn
Kelley, Toronto
Knight, NY Amer X2
Krause, Phila Amer
Kroh, Chicago Natl
Kruger, Columbus
LaFitte, Macon
Lavender, Providence X2
Leach, Pittsburg X2
Livingstone, Phila Amer
McBride, Washington X2
McElveen, Brooklyn
McGlynn, Milwaukee
Malarkey, Buffalo
Maloney, Rochester
Marshall, Brooklyn
Mathewson, NY Natl X2
Merritt, Jersey City
Milan, Washington
Miller, Pittsburg
Mitchell, Cincinnati
Moeller, Jersey City X2
Moran, Providence X2
Moran, Chicago Natl
Murray, NY Natl
Myers, NY Natl
O'Brien, St. Paul
Oberlin, Minneapolis
O'Neil, Minneapolis
Otey, Norfolk
Perring, Cleveland
Persons, Montgomery X2
Phelan, Providence X2
Phelps, St. Louis Natl
Pickering, Minneapolis
Poland, Baltimore
Powers, Phila Amer
Quillen, Minneapolis
Randall, Milwaukee
Raymond, NY Natl
Rhoades, Cleveland
Rhodes, St Louis Natl
Ritter, Kansas City
Rudolph, Toronto X2
Schaefer, Washington
Shannon, Kansas City
Shaughnessy, Roanoke
Shaw, Providence
Sheckard, Chicago Natl
Shipke, Washington
Speaker, Boston Amer
Smith, Shreveport
Spade, Cincinnati
Stanage, Detroit X2
Sweeney, Boston Natl
Strang, Baltimore
Tannehill, Washington
Thielman, Louisville
Thomas, Phila Amer
Titus, Phila Natl
Unglaus, Washington
Warhop, NY Amer
White, Buffalo
Wilson, Pittsburg X2
Young, Cleveland

Very Cool! You should consider finishing the set, good luck!!

Keeping or selling? Either way, great collection!

Honestly, not sure yet. I don't know much about them. I'd love to add to the collection once I have some money. Any idea if there is anything valuable in here? Last I checked the Cobb was the most valuable while the others are pretty common. Quality isn't the best either.

Not trying to start anything, but why the same exact post about this 6+ years later?

Genuinely curious.

I mean, 6 years is a long time. Thought it would be fun to share again. Also to see if anything has changed since then.

Hmmm something stinks.

go on...

I promise you friend, no stink here.

Here is that thread from 6 years ago. A nice discovery, and I imagine a certain amount of procrastination and/or no burning desire to rush into things has probably been involved.

https://net54baseball.com/showthread...69#post1585069

Brian

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6 years ? was it that long ? wow

Time flies. I am surprised people remembered this.

So the biggest question I have is about this Ty Cobb. I could have sworn when I looked into pricing 6 years ago this was worth around $500-1000 in this condition. Does this sound right? I am seeing some pretty beat up green Ty Cobbs for $5,000+.

My second question is, would it be worth it to get all of these graded and sealed? How much would something like that cost? Any grader recommendations?

Are you looking to sell or keep? If keep, I wouldn't bother with grading. Yes, green Cobbs have gone up in pricing.

You have some great cards that all increased in price except maybe Tris Speaker. But there is a collector on Net54 who buys cut cards like that. But Brown, Mathewson, Chase, Cobb, Young.... wow. I would submit for grades all of those. The others maybe not unless you have some rare factory locations.

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I haven't decided yet. Do you foresee the value to keep rising? Have other T206 cards gone up in value?

I’m not at all surprised; the collective memory of this group is outstanding. To most of us, six years isn’t really that long.

One, last thing, checking eBay, I am seeing that the price of my Ty Cobb has skyrocketed since I found these six years ago. Is there any reason for this?

I also just noticed that the back of my card has a "Star Gas Company" stamp and what looks like two stickers. Does this hurt the value of the card? I cannot seem to find any info online about this. Thanks.

Well, and the comments on the imgur page are from 2016, which makes checking the archives at least logical. =)

Technically yes, though there are some collectors (myself included) who have a fondness for back stamps. Stickers, not so much. But in a purely technical sense, yes, a stamp or sticker generally reduces the value of a card.

With this card, I'm not sure it matters a ton. It will get reasonable money for an "Authentic" grade.

Speaking of stamps, I don't have any in my collection with the name that's stamped on several of yours. I'd love to pick one up if the time comes that you start piecing out the collection.

I too am curious what the name is on that backstamp. And since this thread is lacking in cards I'll throw one up, shown before but I love backstamps.
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