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Posted By: barrysloate

Jason- I've been in the hobby 25 years. I have heard "it came out of an estate sale" dozens of times. I am still waiting to see the first genuine piece from an estate sale.

And I'm not talking about the miscellaneous piece such as a Yankees' yearbook, or shoebox of 1980's Topps cards that come from an estate sale and are real.

I'm talking about the people who find T206 Wagners and 1933 Goudey Lajoies and single signed Ruth balls, and they were the only ones at the sale with the good sense to recognize those objects were valuable. Everybody else there somehow missed them.

And I know occasionally there are some great finds, but they are scarcer than hen's teeth.