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So, I thought I would share this story about a collection that walked into my local card shop yesterday. A guy came in with this awkward looking box of cards he stated was collected while he was a child in the late 50's and had been in his mom's house since 1966. The cards had not been touched since and were mostly in mint condition except for a few. It was mainly 1955, 1956, 1957 and 1958. I allowed the card shop owner to execute the deal first and after the customer left, I worked out a deal for the entire lot of cards less the Mantle's. I basically paid him a little less than what the lot cost, which would allow the Mantle's to be his profit. I was STOKED with the cards.

Here are a few of the cards in lot:
1956 Mantle (2)
1957 Mantle (3)
1957 Mantle Power hitters (3)
1956 Clemente
1956 Aparicio
1957 Colavito
1957 Kaline
1956 Mays
1956 Banks (4)
1955 Aaron
1955 Kaline
1958 Maris; there were two. I bought one, which was nice, but the shop kept other, which I think is an 8. it looks straight from the pack.

I will try and post some pics here in the next few days, but just wanted to share my find. All in all about 400 stars/commons from 1956-1958 with a few 1955's mixed in.