Lost and Found

[T206Collector]

Brought some cards to the safety deposit box. A few new acquisitions over the past couple of months. My Mantle 51 Bowman rookie, my E92 Wagner, . . . And the beautiful Mr. Bridwell above. Where'd it go? Oh, I must've left it at home.

So I get home and start the search. Probably left it in my dresser drawer. That's where I put it when I first got it in the mail. Nope.

Probably put it in my baseball card collection's general population downstairs. Not there either.

Panic sets in.

Check the drawers, contemplate throwing things around, . . .

Then check the first place I looked, my dresser drawer. . . Bingo!

Card found!

Has this ever happened to you? Do I need help?

[Leon]

Yes and probably.

[jcmtiger]

I had to have my wife come and read your post. She is always asking what are you looking for? This has happened several times in my house. Check bedroom, basement, drawers, folders. books etc and I have usually found the card. I did have a 45 record years ago worth about $300.00. Still can't find it, I'm assuming I sold on ebay, just don't remember.

Joe

[conor912]

I have two 1950 American Nut mini pennants that have been MIA in my house for over a year. I'm still sore about it since I bought them as a kid. Last I remember seeing them was taking them out to photograph them. I'm sure I then stuck them somewhere "so I'd remember where they are". I'm an idiot.

[Sean]

No, because I always put things in the same place everytime, so I always know where they are. This does make me an anal-retentive jerk, however.

[deadballfreaK]

Been there. Done that. I'm looking for something right now. It's not lost. Just positionally challenged.

[GoldenAge50s]

I bought 1 card I needed to complete an old Non-Sport set. I put it aside somewhere so I could send it to SGC. 2 years later & I still have not found it nor remembered where I put it. I have since replaced it twice & still haven't had it graded, so my set sits on the SGC Registry as 99% complete. I keep thinking I'll find the 1st card, which was the best one!

[deadballfreaK]

Originally Posted by Sean

No, because I always put things in the same place everytime, so I always know where they are. This does make me an anal-retentive jerk, however.

This makes me laugh. I roomed with a guy in college who was like Felix Unger. I was Oscar Madison. We had an agreement that we could borrow each other's stuff, but it was understood I had to put anything back EXACTLY! One day I borrowed a screwdriver to work on my stereo and I put it back in the wrong drawer. Next thing I know I'm being woken up and he is aggrieved. I told him I hadn't touched his shit and leave me alone. Poor trusting soul had apparently never encountered a good lie. He was so upset that he himself had screwed up that I nearly confessed. Not really. It was fun watching him squirm in mental torment.

[cfc1909]

I once lost BL 350s of Slagle and Strang for about 2 years. I scanned them to post for trade bait and thought I put them away. Looked for them about a month later could not find them. Panicdid set in and after a week or so of looking I gave up thinking I must have thrown then away cleaning up. About 2 years later going through some catalogs and packing supplies to clean up some found them in the inside the first page of a auction catalog.

[T205 GB]

I lost my mind. Still can't find wher I lost it at

[dlfallen]

Apparently this is a common experience. In my case, I was moving and about 95% packed when two Milwaukee Sausage (Seattle Rainiers) cards arrived. I stuck them in SOME box thinking they would be easy to find. A year and a half later, I was still looking for them. I had been through my stuff several times, looking in even unlikely places. The other day I was searching my photo file for an old team photo and found the cards stuck in between a couple of photos. I always expected to find them when I wasn't looking for them, and that is exactly what happened.

I'm still looking for a couple of C46 Imperial Tobacco cards. I don't think I traded them but I could have. Or they might show up some day when I'm not looking for them . . .

Dave

[ullmandds]

I am constantly misplacing cards...as i like to look at them often and I tend to misplace them. Currently...I was tempted to post a scan of my t330 piedmont stamp of hal chase I purchased from Jeff L on the BST not too long ago...but...I can't find it?!?!?! Hopefully it'll turn up soon!!!!!

[bn2cardz]

This is a post I made before about a missing card:

Originally Posted by bn2cardz

I was recently trying to find a card that I knew I had just rearranged the display of the day prior. It was sitting on top of a picture frame that acts as a shelf for some graded cards. Yet I could not find it anywhere. I asked my wife if she had seen it.

Finally I told her the only thing I could think of was that the card had fallen and my 20 month old daughter had gotten it. So my wife went up stairs looking for it and found it in my daughters room next to her toys.

I decided it could be hers if she wanted it that bad so now it is displayed in her room.

We have since moved and no cards have been displayed in her room yet, but I suspect that it is only a matter of time before the cards start going back into her room.

[tonyo]

I once had a raw baguer chocolate Goose Goslin go missing for about 3 months. Not that surprising since it's smaller than a postage stamp.

[jcmtiger]

Originally Posted by Sean

No, because I always put things in the same place everytime, so I always know where they are. This does make me an anal-retentive jerk, however.

No, it sounds like my wife though

Joe

[Runscott]

I almost never sell my 1800's baseball cabinet photos, but I got rid of almost all of them about eight years ago. I was surprised recently to find three that I thought I had sold, at the bottom of a box full of baseball memorabilia. Very pleasant surprise.

[dlfallen]

Originally Posted by Runscott

I almost never sell my 1800's baseball cabinet photos, but I got rid of almost all of them about eight years ago. I was surprised recently to find three that I thought I had sold, at the bottom of a box full of baseball memorabilia. Very pleasant surprise.

That's the other side of it - finding cards you forgot you had or thought you had dispersed. One of my "finds" while looking for my misplaced Sausage cards was a W512 Alexander and a W516-1 Speaker. Worse, I cannot remember how or when I acquired these cards.

[Ladder7]

Moving away in two months and found a W517 Ruth I'd lost and written off a few years ago. While shoveling out the attic. I don't mind it, but the wife hates my forgetfulness. <:

[deadballfreaK]

I have a photo autographed by Errol Flynn obtained by my mom's cousin around 1950. It went missing for at least 5 years. Finally one day I opened a book and discovered I had used it as a bookmark. So in a fit of genius I just stuck it back in there and now a year later I have no idea which book it was out of the thousands I have in my library (I call it a library rather than a trash heap of old books).

[ullmandds]

Growing up in northern nj...my neighbor was harold rosenthal who was a sportswriter for the herald tribune. he used to give me cool stuff when I was a kid...WS press pins...bb cards...he gave me a roger maris auto'd rookie card....which I still have. He also gave me what looked like a nfl tie clasp/pin...which I managed to keep until I left the house for college. I later found out this was a super bowl press pin from SB 1 or 2...and was quite valuable.

Upon my return to my parents house I searched high and low...but could not find it...and it remains Lost...but never found to this day.

[Wymers Auction]

Originally Posted by Sean

No, because I always put things in the same place everytime, so I always know where they are. This does make me an anal-retentive jerk, however.

It just means that you are not old enough yet. I was looking for my cell phone this morning and it was in my hand. I am only 43.

[deadballfreaK]

Originally Posted by Wymers Auction

It just means that you are not old enough yet. I was looking for my cell phone this morning and it was in my hand. I am only 43.

Wait til you are 58 like me. I lose my glasses when I'm wearing them. I go into the kitchen for a cup of coffee or something and forget what I went in there for. Have to go back and sit ant wait. Oh, yeah, I know! I wanted coffee!

[dlfallen]

Originally Posted by deadballfreaK

Wait til you are 58 like me. I lose my glasses when I'm wearing them. I go into the kitchen for a cup of coffee or something and forget what I went in there for. Have to go back and sit ant wait. Oh, yeah, I know! I wanted coffee!

Or you reply to a thread in order to tell other members about ... about uhm ... oh crap!

[toledo_mudhen]

I have lots of stuff that's not lost - I just don't know where it is............