What's your best tobacco-card find?

[larrie804]

In March 2004 a friend called and asked me for assistance in selling some baseball cards he had. I had known him for 8 to 10 years and did not know he had collected cards. He told me they were not collected by him..he was 64 in 2004..but by his father who was born in 1900. As a boy his father loved sports but was in a wheel chair from 1908 to 1915. Knowing he loved sports friends of his family had brought him cards so he could enjoy baseball even though he was unable to play the game. The father kept the cards ...2,750 of them... until he was 84 at which time he divided the cards between his two children. The 1,375 cards the man's son brought to me in 2004 were what I call a "virgin collection" having stayed with the family for 96 years!
About 125 of the cards were non-sports the remainder were baseball...T205, T206, T207, T210, Cracker Jacks, E125s, etc. One of the 6-8 "Slow Joe Doyles" we collectors have today came from that collection. I'm still trying to pry loose the other half of the collection!