I find the following statements from Saco Auctions to be confusing:
The card was found a couple of months ago by an antiques picker in Baileyville, a town of about 1,700 people in rural Washington County. The picker stopped at a yard sale in search of furniture, but found none. Instead, the people who were having the yard sale brought the picker to a woodshed, where he found some old Coca-Cola bottles and a photo album, Thibodeau said. Inside the album was the card, which shows 10 stone-faced baseball players, some with bats in hand. It’s a carte de visite, a type of small photograph usually made of thin albumen print and mounted on a thicker piece of paper. Hartford said the picker, who does not want to be publicly identified, sent it to Saco River Auctions because he had heard about the King Kelly card auction. “It came to us out of the blue,” Hartford said. Source:
http://www.pressherald.com/life/1865...r-auction.html
Then we have the following from the New York Post:
The seller, whose name was withheld for privacy purposes, happened to find the card by chance after he purchased a photo album, several old Coke bottles and a couple of oak chairs for under $100 at the yard sale. The card was found inside the photo album and the man mailed it to Saco River Auction. Source:
http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/more_...zkRWQuj6BWdLNI
According to NPR (quoting the NYP), however, the picker mentioned in the original story, was actually Floyd Hartford, the owner of Saco Auctions:
The New York Post reports that a 148-year-old Brooklyn Atlantics baseball card was discovered late last year in a photo album Floyd Hartford purchased among other things at a yard sale. Source:
http://www.wbur.org/npr/171286526/ga...-auction-block