What's your best tobacco-card find?

[steve B]

Just before I joined I helped go through a collection from an estate. Wide range of stuff, and enough good stuff that I couldn't afford it. Got them set up with an auction after about 3 days of sorting so I'd know what was there.

I asked for a small bag that contained what seemed at a glance to be a small collection of T nonsports, mostly comon or worn, plus a few other things.

To my surprise the bag also included some dusty/dirty T205s and T206s and a few caramels. Plus about a half set of T49s including one previously unlisted. The baseball cards all had some surface dirt, but were really nice otherwise.

Later they found more, and I bought the rest of the T49 set at the auction. Paid a bit much I thought, but I figured I owed them a bit. (Still do) The other two uncataloged T49s were in the second batch. So the set I ended up with is probably the only complete set.

That was the find that brought me here and got me back into cards after a bout 5 years of being mostly inactive, only a few packs each year.

Steve B

Steve B