Richmond, Va. - 2000 tobacco card find

[sonnyu2]

Wow. Curious what the back story is on the collection and if the shop bought the collection - or is selling on consignment. Hopefully on consignment for the original owner's sake as it appears that the shop does not have the experience to evaluate / handle those types of cards.

Just shows that there is still a bunch of stuff out there to find!

[The Nasty Nati]

I see what looks like a large stack of Old Mill Southern Leaguers. That is not surprising since the find is in Richmond.

Maybe some rare Print Group 1 Old Mill major leaguers will be in the mix too.

[GasHouseGang]

It's so great that stuff like this still shows up. Sure would love to have a find like that!

[twalk]

Spoke to the shop owner and saw some of the cards at the Chantilly show. One family owned them for 100+ years. Almost all Piedmont with no rare backs that he was aware of. The ones I saw which included several HOFers were in great condition.

He has about a dozen N172s but no HOFers or stars.

Most of them are off to PSA and SGC. Nice guy.

[jetsetr1]

Gorgeous, just gorgeous. My brain has a hard time processing that box.

[Leon]

This was a great find. I love original to the hobby cards. It means that the hobbies scumbags haven't had a chance to trim them (yet). For reference I would really note the borders and compare them to the borders on high grade T206s now in the hobby. My guess is, the ones in the high grade holders almost ALL have smaller borders. I see very few 7's and 8's with large borders. There is a reason.
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