What's in your grandmother's attic?

[GoldenAge50s]

Sometime after my grandparents died I went up in the attic and found these schedules from my Grandfathers liquor store, which was right across the street from the entrance to Tullar Field.

In 1942 Wellsville joined the old Class D PONY (PA, Ontario, NY) Lg as an affiliate of the NY Yankees. Mgr was Al Monchak and on that team was Jerry Coleman (SS) and Charlie Silvera (OF). They both made it to Yankee Stadium in 1949 & 1948 respectively.

Not a big value item but a nice remembrance of my Grandpa, who was a diehard Yankee fan who never missed a Wellsville game from 1942 right up until the early '50's, when he used to take me along.

[uffda51]

No apparent baseball fans in the family tree. But my grandmother did compile an album of trade and business cards of various types from around the bay area. Her dad was in the coal business and brought home a lot of cards from other businesses. Nothing remotely related to sports. The album itself is very cool. An accordion-style book about 2 inches thick.

Gumps, founded in 1861 by Solomon & Gustav Gump, is still alive and well in SF, although they moved from Market Street to Post at some point.

[barrysloate]

Here's a true story: about ten years ago I was consigned a collection of primarily T204, T205, and T206's. Apparently the man bought an old house in upstate NY, I think near Buffalo, and while cleaning out the attic he found several hundred tobacco cards left by the previous owner. Some of the Ramlys were really high grade- I know a few hit SGC 84 and 86, and the collection ultimately sold in the tens of thousands of dollars. As it turned out, the consignor recouped nearly half the money he paid for the house from these. And they were all free! That is really amazing.

[Matthew H]

OT- In my grandmothers closets are just about every toy made in the eighties, still sealed. This thread reminded me of moping around her house as a kid, not able to play with anything.

[mintacular]

granny panties

[slidekellyslide]

Found in my great grandmother's stuff

[Section103]

Peanut Butter and cheese. Both government issued.

[Tsaiko]

Along with a ton of cards, a lot of stuff like this. All musicians in my family.

[MacDice]

In August, my grandmother (who was 90+) passed away in Spokane, WA. While going through the house we found an old cigar box that had an interesting find in it. Inside the box was my Grandfather’s high school letter and on that letter where three sets of crisscrossed baseball bats (made of felt) with the year that he letter in baseball on it. Also in the box was a few 1/2 inch pens that he was awarded for winning some city championships as well as a pitching contest pin (ironically we also found a picture of him after he had won the contest). Not a lot of value really but some really cool pieces that will look great when I frame them for my son.