What's the largest trade you ever made?

[Howe’s Hunter]

Originally Posted by mrvster

OMG!

A type 1 proof?? you owned??

r u serious??

Yeah, Johnny. It was part of a five card lot in a Ron Oser Auction back before internet bidding. Called the day of the auction to see where it was. No one had bid yet on the final of like two days of bidding. The card I was after was a Joe Lake Uzit back and a Doc Casey Broadleaf 350. The other three cards, including what was advertized as a blank back (again, before the internet and there were no pictures to accompany the auction advertisement) were insignificant to me, as after that, the only cards I needed for a back run were a Drum and a Ty Cobb. Got the lot of five cards for the minimum bid of (wait for it) $275. Kept the other two and made the trade. Two rare backs, and a total of nine others for $275. Seemed like a great deal at the time.

[whiteymet]

I have mentioned this on here before.

The biggest best trade I ever made was trading Bill Haber 10 T200's for Topps Current All Stars of Roberts, Konstanty, and Stanky that he "liberated" from Topps files!

Wish I kept them when I sold my collection including my T206 set with Wagner to Barry Halper in the mid 70's. Believe it or not I would rather have kept them than the Wagner.

I know that is blasphemy here in the Vintage section, but my first love was always the post war stuff, especially Topps and their inserts etc. Not to mention that there are a lot more Wagners than those three Currents......

[Luke]

A couple years ago I made a trade with another board member. He was giving up on his e95 set and I was giving up on my HOF RC collection. I sent him a stack of raw RCs (Koufax, Killebrew, Musial, Berra, Ford, Fox and maybe 15 others) and he sent me 13 e95s. Two of the e95s were Collins and Chance in SGC 50 holders. I had planned on collecting a low grade e95 set, and those 2 stood out like a sore thumb. I intended to downgrade them and add other cards to my set, but I liked them too much. A little while later, I decided to upgrade the rest of my set instead. So that trade had a huge impact on what is the cornerstone of my collection. I'm definitely happy about it from my end.