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Dream Find
I think about this scenario often
My hope would be to buy a house, find 1000 t206’s stored up somewhere Step 1- catalog collection. Take 2 days off work, and create a master spread sheet Step 2- put in a safe at the bank & insure the find Step 3- keep the cards that aren’t duplicates & sell the rest Step 4- like others said, if any of the big 4 are found, I would slowly bring them into the market by personally flying into SGC and grading them. Private sale if possible, if not, consign. How does one even find a private Wagner buyer without bringing attention on a oneself? Step 5- enjoy every minute of this process and feel grateful that pieces of cardboard bring so much joy. Bonus step- come up with a hilarious name for the find, so the cards bring a chuckle to the hobby for years to come! Yes, I think about this question often!
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__________________ M@tt G@lvin (formerly LarsHoneyToast) T206 HOF'ers: 10/76 1956 Topps HOF’ers: 8/36 |
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Love it.
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How bout the "Even a Blind Squirrel" find.
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Baseball Card Miracles do happen every 100 years
Real find 1990--a full time Antique dealer and collector for 60 years residing in southern Illinois passed away. I'm guessing not having any know realities the City ordered the contents of old house needing of paint to clean it out. Where, ? the the city dump--a trash collector came across several cheese boxes, upon opening neatly stacked lay close to 1000 T206 and hundreds of E92 caramel cards. Also old cast iron toys still in the boxes. I assume he had bought or collected since a kid? (the trash man did offer the whole lot to a local Missouri antique for $200.00, mean while he found out they were valuable and start calling--fact one well know famous dealer said he was fibbing and hung up on him--although he did end up buying most of them!)
The sad part on my end I had visited and bought a few item from him--he always asked anything I was looking for Nope, I never thought to ask about baseball cards? I did ask him about a huge Log Cabin Syrup tin display, 200.00 he replied and a Tiffany Lamp, $3,000--Nope I didn't buy either, years later I heard the old Log Cabin store display auctioned for $20,000 at some Indianapolis Indiana auction. Could this happen again, possibly, but not like this!--moral of the story==just ask! Last edited by Directly; 02-06-2023 at 07:28 AM. |
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