Posted By:
Dan BrettaOccasionally I find baseball related items at local auctions - usually equipment like bats/gloves and balls, but I did manage to find this in a scrapbook at auction last year.
Sometime in the early 1980s my dad bought these cards at an auction and gave them to me.
Mostly when I see baseball cards listed in an auctionbill I will call or show up and it's all 1980's-shiny era stuff. I drove 50 miles to an auction last year that had 1950's baseball cards in the ad and when I got there it was all 1980s....I asked the auctioneer about the listing and he just shrugged and said the consigner wrote up the bill.
edited to add: I also caught a guy selling fake Sport Kings last year at the weekly consignment auction. I notified the auctioneer that they were fake and he asked me how I could tell...I just told him to smell it and if it smelled like coffee it was a fake. They all had the "reprint" area on the back rubbed off and they all had the "baked in the oven" look. Turns out that the consignee had sold the Cobb to a fellow auction goer before the auction for $400. I also saw a Fro Joy uncut sheet in another local auction and when I notified the auctioneer it was fake he pulled it from the auction.