Barn Find

[Tao_Moko]

Posted here because of the # of members in the pre-war arena who have had barn find type experience. Mostly looking for pointers on how to go into the situation below. I also added what I'm going to be looking at.

I am going out to look at a collection of primarily 1940's baseball tomorrow that is supposedly a true "barn find" and a few Goudey's. I know there are some reproductions out there for these years so I'm approaching cautiously. One question I have is whether or not I should expect to see x number of SP's per y number of cards? The guy said there are Ruth's in the group so if there are 5 of them and only 40 cards should that be a red flag? Were there any super prints I would expect to see more of in the Bowman or Leaf sets? I've read up on how to identify the fakes but sometimes I have found that knowing the distribution of the cards themselves helps to determine how they were purchased or collected. I uncovered a find of 39 Playball's 20 years ago and there were two Joe D's and two Williams in a group of about 200 cards. Any advice from seasoned barn find collectors would be helpful.

If it turns out to be legit then I'll certainly share pictures tomorrow evening.

Thanks,

Eric