What's in your grandmother's attic?

[Chris-Counts]

We hear so much from eBay scammers about how they found a T206 Wagner or a '33 Ruth in "grandma's attic." I'm wondering if anybody here as ever found any interesting baseball cards or memorabilia in the attics of their own relatives. When I was a kid, I diligently scoured the attics of most of relatives, but the only thing I ever came up with was this wonderful cabinet photo of what is presumably a young Detroit Tigers fan, and quite likely, one of my relatives. I found it back in the 1970s in my great aunt's attic in Flint, Michigan ...

[B O'Brien]

Chris,
That is awesome!
The best I did was about 50 1959 Topps cards and a local PC from around the 1880's (I don't see a scan on this computer to attach).

Super cool find,
Bob

[CW]

HA! Good stuff, Chris! Gotta love those shoes & socks.

You could always throw it up on eBay and advertise it as "Ty Cobb's Earliest
Known Card!!!"

[brianp-beme]

The ears are more like Sam Crawford.

Brian

[CW]

Originally Posted by brianp-beme

The ears are more like Sam Crawford.

Brian

Here's the scary part... I was going to make a comment about
the ears!

[joeadcock]

Barry
Great story. I would guess this would be a dream to anyone on the forum. To find a huge(or even a few) prewar/19th cent cards in an attic, especially with that value.

Frank

[GoldenAge50s]

Sometime after my grandparents died I went up in the attic and found these schedules from my Grandfathers liquor store, which was right across the street from the entrance to Tullar Field.

In 1942 Wellsville joined the old Class D PONY (PA, Ontario, NY) Lg as an affiliate of the NY Yankees. Mgr was Al Monchak and on that team was Jerry Coleman (SS) and Charlie Silvera (OF). They both made it to Yankee Stadium in 1949 & 1948 respectively.

Not a big value item but a nice remembrance of my Grandpa, who was a diehard Yankee fan who never missed a Wellsville game from 1942 right up until the early '50's, when he used to take me along.

[uffda51]

No apparent baseball fans in the family tree. But my grandmother did compile an album of trade and business cards of various types from around the bay area. Her dad was in the coal business and brought home a lot of cards from other businesses. Nothing remotely related to sports. The album itself is very cool. An accordion-style book about 2 inches thick.

Gumps, founded in 1861 by Solomon & Gustav Gump, is still alive and well in SF, although they moved from Market Street to Post at some point.

[barrysloate]

Here's a true story: about ten years ago I was consigned a collection of primarily T204, T205, and T206's. Apparently the man bought an old house in upstate NY, I think near Buffalo, and while cleaning out the attic he found several hundred tobacco cards left by the previous owner. Some of the Ramlys were really high grade- I know a few hit SGC 84 and 86, and the collection ultimately sold in the tens of thousands of dollars. As it turned out, the consignor recouped nearly half the money he paid for the house from these. And they were all free! That is really amazing.

[Matthew H]

OT- In my grandmothers closets are just about every toy made in the eighties, still sealed. This thread reminded me of moping around her house as a kid, not able to play with anything.

[mintacular]

granny panties