Stolen Old Judge Baseball Cards, Please Beware
 

Many of you know me for the many 19th century card finds I have had over the years. Within the last few weeks I have had 13 Old Judge cards stolen, and have recovered five of them from Burbank Sports Cards who unknowingly bought them from the thief.
I will list images of the eight cards that are still out there in case the thief tries to sell them to you
The theif is a woman named Melissa

Please contact me if you are approached to buy any of these cards
Thanks
Dave
Dave's Vintage Baseball Cards
310 471 1959

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UGH! Sorry to hear this, Dave.

Good luck with the recovery effort.

Kevin

That stinks Dave, good luck in recovery and hope justice is served. Do you know how and when Melissa obtained the cards?

I’m truly sick about reading so many stories like this. Hope you are able to recover your cards!

+1 Can't wait to hear that Melissa is in jail.

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Please contact me if you are approached to buy any of these cards
Thanks
Dave
Dave's Vintage Baseball Cards
310 471 1959


All added to the Stolen Card Database. Just an FYI, you have posted the Bill Blair card twice. Did you mean to post a different card instead?

1887 Bill Blair N172 Old Judge Cigarettes SGC 1.5 cert# 1259466-005

1887 Ed Beatin N172 Old Judge Cigarettes SGC 1.5 cert# 1259466-003

1887 Ned Williamson N172 Old Judge Cigarettes SGC 3 cert# 1259074-020

1887 Hick Carpenter N172 Old Judge Cigarettes SGC 5.5 cert# 1259074-073

1887 John Clarkson N172 Old Judge Cigarettes SGC 1.5 cert# 1259074-071

1887 Ned Williamson N172 Old Judge Cigarettes SGC 5 cert# 1259074-021

1887 Thomas Burns N172 Old Judge Cigarettes SGC 3cert# 1259466-020

Remind us again...where would one go to access the list of stolen cards?

I would like to start checking this list before making purchases.

RE: Stolen Old Judge baseball cards
 

Terrible news Dave. Will keep an eye out for these stolen cards.

Dave-Sorry to hear this. I will keep an eye out for them.

All stolen cards are included on the altered card database and the stolen card database. If you just want to view or search stolen cards then this is the link you would use. https://www.tiffanycards.com/altered...atabase/stolen


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Let's hope the leads from the Burbank store can help catch this thief. We'll keep an eye on the usual suspects (Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace, and fleabay). Hope you get them all back.

alls well that ends well
 

So, hats off to a great job by the LAPD, and thanks to them, I got all the cards back, the last eight came back today and were delivered to me.

The detective put a real scare into the suspect and we will just leave it at that, I am happy I got them back!!

Dave

That's awesome!
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Good Deal
 

That's great David...glad to hear of cops doing their job...Jerry

Great news!

Wow, I'm amazed that law enforcement could be bothered doing anything. You must have some pretty strong ties to the LAPD.

What's that supposed to mean?

Thanks for the link. This will be helpful. Dave, glad you got your cards back

When is the last time you heard of police actively chasing down a handful of (relatively speaking to the larger thefts they deal with) moderate value baseball cards? Maybe it happens on occasion, but I've heard many more stories of police not being bothered, citing, among other reasons, more important things to do. And this is the LAPD. You can't tell me that they would take time away from all the usual L.A. crime to deal with a stolen Ned Williamson unless OP knew someone on the force. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong, and if that's the case, OP won the lottery in actually finding someone who cared.

Not to mention, SoCal has even more things to worry about than usual these days. A few stolen baseball cards should rightly be at the bottom of a to-do list at the moment with everything that's been on their plate. It's great that this story had a happy ending--I'm just surprised that law enforcement was that proactive.

Dave can you share how they were stolen?

Not a cop, but if an assigned investigator gets an easy enough assignment it's not moving a mountain to feel it out.

I say this as someone who used to live in an "interesting" neighborhood and it was not uncommon at all to have an investigator show up at your house to ask about a lead or address of some name they have that might be in the neighborhood.

Yeah, I was wondering if Dave knew Melissa, or just learned her name in connection with some of the cards being sold to Burbank. These would certainly be crimes of a different nature.

I'm glad you got them back, OP. I'm curious how they were stolen and how they were found.

I also share a bit of surprise that law enforcement jumped in and solved this so quickly...in many parts of the country cops are under-resourced to where a small number of stolen baseball cards (from most people, anyway) is going to be a very low priority.

I'm glad for the happy ending, Dave!

+1 Details. Who is Melissa?

But most importantly, glad you got them back. Can't remember reading any of these theft threads whereby the owner got them back, frankly.

I was surprised by that as well.
We had a $125k truck stolen from work early last year and it took 4 phone calls and 3 hours to even get an officer to come out and write a report. When the officer did arrive he seemed genuinely annoyed that he was even there. There was also no investigation and no follow-up from the responding officer or the department. When we tried to follow up with the department on two different occasions we were just told to file an insurance claim.

All but 2 of the cards stolen from Memory Lane Auctions were recovered.

Yes, I forgot about that one.