Pre-War cards shown on TV/Movies

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Originally Posted by midmo

Welp, I found it on youtube. I couldn't sit through the whole thing, but if you have some time to kill here's the whole episode in 5 parts. If nothing else, check out the beginning of part 1...

part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7N33cWbvgU

part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qljOUpBEnj0

part 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJugBfsHjHw

part 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NZ1XJePe7U

part 5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw3U9_DGiNI

I just watched this episode. Pretty cool and funny at the same time. Very nice selection of cards, mostly 1950s. To sum it up: kid inherits card collection, Mr. Hart calls local card shop and dealer (without looking at the cards) estimates the collection to be worth $250,000, collection gets stolen by mean relatives, collection gets sold at the National which was conveniently that weekend, mean relative buys weapon at show (old bb team jackknife) and stabs the buyer so he can't identify mean relatives, Mr. Hart wins back collection in a flipping contest that lasts all night and all is well in lala land......

phew! Take a peek at it, pretty goofy with some cool cards strewn throughout the show. 1952 Mantle also that is worth $3000 at the time (1975). Another goofy aspect is the cards are referred to as Mint but they are constantly thrown around like firewood and then flipped in an all nighter so that part is pretty funny.

Thanks for linking this show.

peace, mike