Famous "Finds"

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Posted By: D. W.

A good friend of mine, whom is an antiques dealer in Georgia, bought three old travel trunks from a gentlemen who was cleaning out an old barn. The trunks were full of the belongings of a young woman who died when she was in her early 20's. She died from Influenza in the 1918 plague and upon her death her family had all of her things boxed up and placed in the top of the barn for storage. The farm stayed in the same family until 1994 when my buddy bought the trunks at auction. Inside one of the trunks were over 500 T206 cards of HOF'ers, about 50 or so Southern Leaguers, and many commons as you would expect. There were no rare cards with the exception of a few backs, there were a couple Broadleaf 350's and one Uzit, but none of the "big" error cards. The heat and moisture had taken it's toll on a few of the cards, but they were all in pretty good shape overall. She had an obvious love for baseball, but that was only a small portion of what was in the trunks, my friend kept a lot of the personal things as to not disturb them (letters, etc), he said that it was actually creepy yet fascinating as well. 90 plus years and no one had been in the trunks.

I bought 300 of the cards from him 4 or 5 years ago and still have them and I treasure them as she obviously did and I keep that group seperate from all of the rest of my items.

Not a huge find, but was fantastic to bring her story back to life.