Garage Sales , Estate Sales

[David W]

Not a find for me, but someone else... not...

A friend of mine tells me his mother in law is sellling a card collection she's had for years at a yard sale, I stop by, lots of beater mid to late 70's and later, about 500 cards.

"$200 for the lot since you are Kevin's friend, there are lots of rookies in here" she says.

I look through all the cards, best cards are mis cut Hostess cards and a bunch of 87 Topps beater Bonds rookies with dinged corners.

I decline respectfully.

Later I find out someone paid her $200 for the lot......

I can't give away my junk like that at yard sales.

[Kzoo]

My Mother, of all people, found a stack of old cards wrapped with a fragile rubber band at an old guy's estate sale a couple years ago. She 'took a chance' on the cards for $1. Upon showing me her purchase the next day, I was shocked and began drooling. Unfortunately they weren't baseball, but instead T80 Tolstoi Military series tobacco cards (there's an image of one in the upper right hand corner of Net54 advertising the non-sport forum).....there was 90 of them and they are beautiful!! They have the same gold boarders as T205's and luckily there were enough of them to complete the 50 card set which I have on PSA's set registry....the only one. Most of the cards graded were in the 5-7 range with a couple 8's. My Mother made a deal with me up front that any proceeds down the road would have to be split with her......and I'm ok with that, but for now I'm just enjoying the cards..........Matt

[milkit1]

id like to take this opportunity to thank Steve for the awesome deal he gave me on the Beantown find. im sure Im not the only one

[deadballera]

found this at and Antique Mall

$3.00

[GrayGhost]

Originally Posted by deadballera

found this at and Antique Mall

$3.00

My antique malls are all picked out.

[cardinalcollector]

In 1976 I bought a complete set of 1952 Royal Premiums (to a Royal Star) from an antique shop in St. Charles, MO for $2. I sold it 2 weeks later to John Mehlin who ran the Kansas City card shows in the mid 1970s for $25. Its worth around $500 today.

[ruth-gehrig]

I guess I had a little find about a year ago. In an antique/flea market I found a Mickey Mantle Motel ashtray from Mantle's Holiday Inn in Joplin Missouri. The lady was asking $18 she accepted $15. Put it on ebay and it brought $150.

[deadballera]

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