Near miss...Cards that you've personally taken out of existence...

z28jd · #1 09-04-2011, 04:29 PM

I almost just threw out a 1922 Zeenuts Dots Miller, a player I collect. The card was in the middle of my pile of envelopes I was tearing the names off of before I threw them out. I just happened to check inside the one envelope that had nothing else but garbage in it and there the Miller was just like I got it from the seller, in the hard plastic taped between two pieces of cardboard. Needless to say I searched through everything else pretty good afterwards

hoot-owl · #2 09-04-2011, 05:04 PM

Not a valuable card--but one of the first T206s I purchased was a mid grade raw Ed Killian pitching. Tore open the envelope, left the card out and went about my business. Wondered where the card was a few days later, only to have my wife tell me the pieces were in the side table. Seems my beagle liked the smell of Killian and chewed him up.

A slight variation on my dog at my homework--but one less Killian pitching in the world.

tbob · #3 09-04-2011, 11:17 PM

When I consigned one of my T207 sets to Mastro Auctions back around 2002 or so I was told that in taking scans of the cards they had somehow "lost" the red Cycle back Lowdermilk card from the set. I was reimbursed and the auction went on without that card (EXish condition) but I always wondered what happened to it. The "official" explanation was that someone "probably accidentally threw it away during the photographing process."
Yeah, I thought the same thing you are thinking...

familytoad · #4 09-05-2011, 01:20 AM

I once pulled the 72 topps high number series aside to see which ones I still needed, as it seemed like I had most of them. Then I brought them to an ex-gf's house and shortly afterwards we parted ways and I needed the whole series and some new furniture

Fortunately, several years later my pals in OBC helped me rebuild that psycho set from those psycho days.

Then, just last week, flooding from Hurricane Irene took about 100,000 cards out of circulation from mom's basement in central Vermont. Some good stuff in there too...no prewar that I know of. It makes you wonder how many cards were lost in "Acts of God" instances over the years...
In fact, when you think about it, its simply amazing that we all have cards that are over a hundred years old or more!!! wow!

tbob · #5 09-05-2011, 10:47 AM

You have to wonder how much of a role Nature played in the fact so few Louisiana issues still exist and are in the hobby: T213 Coupons, Victorys, etc. It seems like nothing ever surfaces anymore (last 35 years) out of Louisiana and I don't remember hardly any collectors from the Pelican state. There used to be one guy on ebay years ago with the user id vendomecat who won whatever he wanted. Seems like his name was Mike Schwartz (?) and he had a restaurant and real estate in New Orleans. Nice guy, we communicated several times but someone mentioned that they had heard that he had had business reversals and the restaurant was gone along with most of his collection. Hope that's not true but I haven't heard from him in a long, long time.

cardaholic · #6 09-05-2011, 08:24 PM

An old friend of mine is related to one of the wealthiest families in Plaquemines Parish, LA. Based on what he told me, their collectibles insurance rider paid off $1 million (policy limit) following Katrina. Among the items ruined by the flood were multiple Pete Maravich game-worn jerseys and lots of Houston Astros game-worn jerseys, including a Nolan Ryan.

As far as he knew, they didn't collect cards. Most of their losses were apparently 19th and early 20th century art.

Keeping valuable collectibles on upper floors was not sufficient to protect them. With days of several feet of standdiing sludge, everything that can mildew, did.

I would expect that lots of collections throughout southern LA disappeared due to every major hurricane in the area.

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