[Roofman4]

Went to an in Delaware that was selling of the estate of an elderly lady that was down sizing and moving. I saw the add (with pictures) describing the typical items and "some old baseball cards". In that group was the card in the pic not to mention a few Goudey Ruth's and Gehrigs' and basically every Topps and Bowman Mantle cards up to 1966, not to mention a 1948/49 Leaf Jackie Robinson. Turned out the cards belonged to the ladies father who died in 1966. She found them in a safe among her dad's "stuff".

After a very close...and I mean close inspection there was no doubt it was real. Knowing that only a couple of cards might be possible, I took a sizable amount of cash to go for the 1914 Ruth and work down/back from there. The Ruth ended up at $10k. I was $2k short. At least I can say I had a "chance", I got to hold one and get a picture with it. just goes to show any card can show up anywhere...anytime.