ALERT....huge, huge BB card collection theft....UPDATED

[Mikehealer]

Hi Ted
What city or state did the theft occur?

[3-2-count]

This just makes me sick to my stomach to hear!!!!

[barrysloate]

Any theft is a terrible violation, but the size and scope of this is monumental. What a horror.

[tedzan]

" What city or state did the theft occur? "

Upstate New York....and, the house was "protected" with a well-known Alarm system (which was disabled by the thieves).

[D. Bergin]

That's just awful news. Hopefully whoever took the collection tries to flip it quick. A collection like this doesn't just show up somewhere un-noticed.

[usernamealreadytaken]

Hopefully, this bum tries to sell them and gets busted! I hope (and have to assume) his collection was insured?

If graded, any serial #'s would be good to keep an eye out for.

[tedzan]

That's exactly my thinking and that's why I posted it today. Also, I will be contacting the major Auction houses to alert
them of this collection.


TED Z

[JasonL]

and a terrible violation of personal space...hopefully he has details on the slabs and cards that can be shared, and hopefully the thieves try to dump the whole thing quickly and raise eyebrows in the process

That is quite a significant collection...I really hope that this collector was not also relying on this for any retirement/financial security.

Hoping for a quick return...

[Cowboy Fan]

Unreal this crap make me sick. As for the "well known' alarm company if it was the one that advertises all then time and changed names, I know those 24 hour monitoring is a HUGE JOKE. When I was in law enforcement most of the time the neighbors called about the alarm an hour or so before the company ....Best advice there is just buy one of those signs at that is about what you are paying for anyway.

I hope these cards are recovered and I'll buy the rope for the scum that stole them.

[tedzan]

Other than the 70 cards (T206's) that I have noted, the 1000's of other cards are ungraded.

There are certain identifying marks on some of the major cards that may help in identifying this collection.


TED Z

[T206DK]

Wow, that's such bad news to hear. I would think that some of the cards stolen would be hard to resell. Your friend might want to contact card dealers and stores in his vacinity also. there are also probably small auctioneers in the area...I would not leave any stone unturned, so to speak. You've got to think the thief will either sell them himself or sell them to someone else who in turn will sell them.

[Matt]

Unfortunate news.

Posting scans of some of the key cards will provide us the best opportunity to help with recovery. Otherwise, we wouldn't have much way to know if a card we're looking at was stolen from him or not.

[Bridwell]

Ouch! Terrible news.

I'd recommend he put together some identifying characteristics of certain cards or sets. As a group, this board can be on the lookout for them when they eventually are resold.

Ron R