Your best "Antiqueing" Find.....

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Posted By: Bill

If "Antiqueing" is even a word! What is the best card/cards you've stumbled upon while at an antique shop/show?

Change your socks, drink water, and drive on.

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Posted By: Tom Boblitt

a Scrapps Tobacco card locally. It was about $100 but that was still cheap even 5-6 years ago. Pretty cool finding one in an antique mall....

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Posted By: jay behrens

The 6 t208 Firesides I used to own. Bought them at an antique show in a shopping mall in Orlando in 1982 for $100. Even at that price back then I was having second thoughts about buying them because for that same money I knew I could buy 20-30 nice t206s for the same price.

Jay

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Posted By: Tim Newcomb

bought for $25 locally about 5 years ago (no, that was the only one they had)

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Posted By: Steve Murray

Full set of Grignon Cubs postcards for $165 sometime in the early 90's. All gone except for Kling.

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Posted By: David Smith

All of the following were found in the mid-1990's (before the internet) when I was in college and had the time (but little money) to search for stuff.

These B 18's, which were sewn together to form a pillow top, for $100.



This 1880's pencil box for $23.



A large quilt with about 120 B 18's sewn around the edges and a VERY large American flag tobacco felt in the center for $600. It was big and I didn't have any place to hang it or store it properly, so I sold it in a Slater's Americana Sports Auction for $3,500, which went to pay for college tuition.

David

Thinking about it more.

At different times, some mini-bats including Hack Wilson, Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle.

A Ball Player's Career by Cap Anson hardback book for $30 dollars.

A stack of 30 or so B 33 sports blankets for $3 dollars a piece.

Two large tobacco premium Leathers of Sitting Bull and Minnehaha.

A 1924 University of Illinois football program dedicating their new stadium. This so happened to be the game against Michigan where Red Grange scored six touchdowns.

A University of Michigan yearbook from the 1930's with Senior Gerald Ford in it. A couple of group photos with him and one with him in his football uniform.

I am sure there are more but I can't think of them now.

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Posted By: andy

Both of these were at Sacramento Stores for about 20 bucks each...the Sullivan pin was with a bunch of other buttons from the 70's and 80's.

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Posted By: brian p

I refuse to let this thread become an antique. My best and only antique find was a group of 100 or so mid to late 1920's Zeenuts identified as 'black and white' cards in an antique store in Northern California about ten years ago. They were from an original collection, as all had the player's position written on the backside. The dealer was asking $3.00 a card, but I was able to get all of them at $2.00 each. Despite the writing on the back, overall they are in above average Zeenut condition. Let's just say this got me collecting Zeenuts.

Brian