What would you do?

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Posted By: Bill Stone

These are assumed facts so please don't take them as true -they are for illustrative purposes only. While researching the ballplayers in the T210 set I did some genealogical research and was able to locate a great great aunt of Leo Angermeier who played for the Frankfort team.When I contacted her,Mrs. Angermeier was thrilled with the research I had done including the fact that Leo's dad was killed in a tornado.She told me a wonderful story that everyone had left the building but as Mr. Angermeier was leaving his hat blew off and when he went back in to retrieve it the building collapsed killing him. She then told me she had the family scrapbook of Leo and his brother Louis who also played in the Blue Grass League ( although he was not depicted on a card.) Well the scrapbook had photos, newspaper clippings and 24 pristine T210 cards( no Jackson or Stengel).They looked as if they had just been pulled from a pack of Old Mill cigarettes. She said " Please take it --I am 84 years old and no one else in the family cares about the family history and you obviously do".I told her they were valuable and I wanted to pay for them. Now at $240 a card that would be $5,760 but I am certain given the condition they would sell at a major auction for at least $12,000. Query--What would you do?