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Posted By: gary

So about a year ago I see some guy selling some "old" cards in the paper. Luckily his location is 10 min from me. I called him and asked if he had other cards, and if I can see them. When I got there he took out a box of approx 500 tobacco cards (caramels , t206 , t205). He said he didn't know much about them only that he knew they were valuable. He picked them up at a garage sale for about 5000.00 from an old woman.

So I go through them one by one, eyes wide...and salivating the whole time. I bought as many as I could afford, as he looked in a out-dated price guide...I bought about 200-250 from him...cobbs, wagners, mattys ...all the HOFs. He still has a MAGIE error that he sent off to PSA and it was graded EX 5. I am still trying to figure a way to get that one off him, and the others he has in his safe.

Anyway here is the rub. I was going to go out to all the garale sales that morning that he bought the cards. I go out every weekend looking...and hoping for a great find. I come back to my house every weekend with nothing but a box of 1980's commons i bought for 2 bucks. But I didn't show up one weekend , and some guy who doesn't even like vintage cards in the least steals my garale sale find of a lifetime. Oh well....