Baseball Card Find - Biggest

[barrysloate]

The Oregon Find of about five years ago was among the biggest ever. It was an original family collection of roughly 1400 Old Judges, and it included quite a few rare and scarce cards.

[CobbSpikedMe]

You beat me to it Barry. The Old Judge find immediately came to mind when I read the title of this thread. I couldn't remember where it was found though. Do you know if there was an Anson in uniform in that find?

Thanks.

AndyH

[ynnek4]

cool thread.

i would be interested in learning about the famous finds as well.

[barrysloate]

My understanding was there was not an Anson in uniform, but I don't really know for sure.

[Jay Wolt]

What about Alan Rosen's 1952 Topps find from 20 years ago?
If "found" now, it would probably be worth many many multiples of what he broke it up for then.
Same can apply to his huge find of Bowman BB & FB boxes.

[barrysloate]

Jay- I think the 52 Topps find was close to 30 years ago.

[E93]

I was thinking about the '52 Topps find too. Weren't there somewhere in the neighborhood of 75 nm/mt Mantles among all the other thousands of high numbers?

I think one of the most significant finds was Rob Lifson's (REA) find of five T206 Cobb/Cobb backs in 1997. It brought the known total at the time from 6 to 11.
JimB

[bh3443]

Originally Posted by Jay Wolt

What about Alan Rosen's 1952 Topps find from 20 years ago?
If "found" now, it would probably be worth many many multiples of what he broke it up for then.
Same can apply to his huge find of Bowman BB & FB boxes.

Hi Jay!
Those 52's came from my home town of Framingham, MA! Great story behind the find, too!
Talk with you Friday,
Bill

[tbob]

I have to toss in (because I was involved) the Southern Find from the mid-80's in which about 500 T213 series 2 cards and about 100 T213 series 3 cards made their way in to the hobby courtesy of a guy from Louisiana with a huge box of Coupon cards who rolled in to town. I managed to latch on to about 80 of the T213-3 cards (about 15 overprinted backs including 2 Cobbs with the OP backs), all in vg to ex-mt. Sadly they are long gone, before anyone asks. I sold them to Bill Mastro in the mid to late 80's (complete set -1) along with about 200 T-213-2s, but kept one nice Cobb OP back which I swapped about 5-6 years ago for a very nice E94 Wagner now in a PSA 4 holder. No T213-1s in the bunch. Any truly nice T213-3s (very, very tough and scarce) you see are probably from the find as Mastro broke up the set years ago. Probably my biggest regret as a collector...