What's in your grandmother's attic?

[CW]

HA! Good stuff, Chris! Gotta love those shoes & socks.

You could always throw it up on eBay and advertise it as "Ty Cobb's Earliest
Known Card!!!"

[brianp-beme]

The ears are more like Sam Crawford.

Brian

[CW]

Originally Posted by brianp-beme

The ears are more like Sam Crawford.

Brian

Here's the scary part... I was going to make a comment about
the ears!

[joeadcock]

Barry
Great story. I would guess this would be a dream to anyone on the forum. To find a huge(or even a few) prewar/19th cent cards in an attic, especially with that value.

Frank

[nebboy]

Im going through a part of a basement find tonight, that a junk man friend of mine always give me the good stuff. Good freinds to have!
Lots of WWI (300+ RPPC) and WWII items and lots of good odds and ends stuff from 3 generantion.

BUT - Very little pre-war sports stuff. Vintage highlights:

1955 College World Series programs/score card w/guest ticket and more

1949-50 Kights Hockey program (signed by HOF Marcel Pronovost)
his one year in a farm club.

[nebboy]

Originally Posted by nebboy

Im going through a part of a basement find tonight, that a junk man friend of mine always give me the good stuff. Good freinds to have!

Lots of WWI (300+ RPPC) and WWII items and lots of good odds and ends stuff from 3 generantion.

BUT - Very little pre-war sports stuff. Vintage highlights:

1955 College World Series programs/score card w/guest ticket and more

1949-50 Kights Hockey program (signed by HOF Marcel Pronovost)

his one year in a farm club.

Up-Date from this same Estate lots - I just found a Jack Dempsey Knocks out Jesse Willard Restaurant postcards that is signed by Jack Demsey to Laura. I see that there are alot of these around but still pretty cool for free.

[old-baseball]

My first vintage cards came my way as I was working on a set of 1974 Topps (during 1974). My grandmother found my dad's cards as they were cleaning out the garage at the house that they had moved into while my Dad was in the Navy during WWII. It's hard to believe that they lasted as long as they did in a cardboard box in an unheated, detached garage. The box was filled with 1933 through 1935 Goudey's, a few Tattoo Orbits, some Delong's and a bunch of non-sport stuff. I really didn't start collecting these sets until the mid to late 80's, but the cards and his stories of seeing Ruth and Gehrig in Cleveland as a boy sparked my interest. Here's a couple of cards that survived the 30 long years in that garage.