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EricMy father collected baseball and hockey cards and comic books as a kid. This was through the late 50's and through most of the 60's. My grandmother threw out everything except about 200 hockey cards that managed to get misplaced. I have those hockey cards right now, and there are some good ones in there (Hull, Orr, Howe, Harvey). And they are in very good shape.
He doesn't remember specifics of his baseball card collection, but he did have a few. That bothers me a little bit, because we all know who played in that era of collecting, and some cards carry a very high premium.
His real love though, was collecting comic books. He does remember a lot of what he had, and when I hear about what was thrown away, it makes me sick to my stomach. Fantastic Four #1, The Amazing Spiderman #1, The Incredible Hulk #1. These were his favorite series, so he had a lot of these in sequential numbers. He also had a lot of the early Superman's, Action Comics, and so on.
Because this happened to him, he obviously vowed never to throw away anything I collected.