". . . buying T206s at antique stores for 35 cents apiece." What's YOUR cool story?

[ocjack]

In the 1960's, I was working part-time on weekends at a bank in downtown L.A. One lunch, I walked by an old book store that had a huge picture window and 4 rubber-banded stacks of '51/'52 Bowmans in the window as decoration. They were marked at 25 cents each. I told the owner I wanted to buy the cards and he said he wasn't climbing into the window for 25 cents. I told him I wanted all four stacks and gave him $1.

There must have been about 50 cards in each stack so I walked out with probably 200 of them for $1.

It'll never happen again.

[egri]

I missed out on the 'buying green Cobbs for 25 cents' boat, but about two years ago, a seller on eBay listed four signed 1953 Topps Detroit Tigers, including Fred Hutchinson. The photo was terrible; I could barely see the cards, let alone the signatures, but at $80 for the lot, I figured it was worth taking a flyer. When I got them in hand, they were four beautiful vintage signatures, all authentic. In addition to the Hutch, two of the others ended up being upgrades for ones I already had. Since I bought them, a Hutchinson in worse shape than mine sold for over $1,200.

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