What's your most shrewd pick-up ever?

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Posted By: E, Daniel

Maybe the card cost 10 cents at a garage sale, $10,000 at auction on Mastro, or anything in between. Maybe it was mis-identified and you saw the potential, or it was a card from an issue whose time had not yet come, or it was horribly mis-graded and you had it bumped enormously and added thus to its value by a factor.........
Whatever you think, as long as we are talking about investment return on the card, whether sold long ago, today, or in the future, and perhaps just a short story on how you came upon it?

I believe mine will turn out to be an 1887 Old Judge Cap Anson in street clothes GAI Authentic on Ebay, that didn't make reserve going on 2 years ago and I picked up privately for around $1200-$1500, can't remember exactly.
Appearance is nrmt, strong image, slightly slightly trimmed on the bottom edge, still, not many around in the scheme of things......


Oh, and Leon's can't be the Trucker Boy Wagner!