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what's your favorite all-time "find"
Posted By: warshawlaw
We've all read about the recent finds, but we all have our own stories of finds. What was your best? |
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what's your favorite all-time "find"
Posted By: Jeff Obermeyer
Mine is a non-baseball related find - it's hockey. |
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what's your favorite all-time "find"
Posted By: runscott
when I was about 13 a guy that was a lot younger than me wanted to trade comics. I reluctantly agreed and he had the 3rd Iron Man (Tales of Suspense #42), and several other early '60s Marvel Comics. I actually felt guilty after picking them up for about 25 cents each. The 2nd best was when I found 5 coverless copies of Tales To Astonish #27 (1st Ant man/Giant man) at a junk store for 5 cents each. |
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what's your favorite all-time "find"
Posted By: Jaime Leiderman
Back in 1989, run a small classified add on a regional Venezuelan newspaper asking for any kind of baseball material. (I was looking for Topps Venezuelan sets). |
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what's your favorite all-time "find"
Posted By: Brian Weisner
I've had alot of great finds, but by far my best was the 148 T206's at the Charlotte Metrolina Antique show. I purchased 60 ex-mt to mint t206's including 20 hofers at 50% less than book . I bought 2 Bresnahan with bats for 10.00 a piece, both are now slabbed at sgc 86's. I was lucky enough to get a red background Cobb for 128.00 which is now in a psa 6 holder. The rest of the cards including Hofers are in psa 6-8 holders. I only wish I would have had another 500.00 to buy the remaining cards. Finding pristine cards from 1909 is a feeling you can't explain. be well brian |
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what's your favorite all-time "find"
Posted By: John
When my dad was doing work for an old lady she found out i liked baseball,i think i was about 12 when this happened,she went up in the attic and got me a bat that her relative used in a movie.turned out it was an original bat from the movie the babe ruth story,she was william bendix's relative(neice i think).bat is in great condition,still have it displayed in my hallway.....my other finds in houses my dad did work in werent so impressive,81 topps bob watson and a 54 bowman dick kokos,although one house he bought to fix up had a huge collection of stamps,mostly foreign,mostly from the 30-50's but i know nothing about stamps so they might be nothing |
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what's your favorite all-time "find"
Posted By: Julie Vognar
always see me coming! I'd have to say the 1882 Providence Grays Harper's Woodcut with Wrights, Radbourn and Ward which i won on e-bay for $14.95 from an art gallery that had stuff going way back to the 1700s. And a couple of years ago, i think at Purdey's Pleasanton show (now defunct), I got a 1947 Jackie Robinson Bond Bread (that's from the set of 13 Robinsons, not the set of lots of major stars) for $100, in ex-mint. Some dealers set up without knowing what they have on their tables! |
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what's your favorite all-time "find"
Posted By: HalleyGator
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what's your favorite all-time "find"
Posted By: Patrick McMenemy
Up until tonight, my best Ebay find was a Paul Thompson photo of Connie Mack & Ira Thomas, which is autographed by Ira Thomas. A similar photo was taken by Charles Conlon for the 1911 World Series, so I assume this was also taken at the same World Series game. As I mentioned this had been my "greatest" find until this evening. |
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what's your favorite all-time "find"
Posted By: runscott
I assume you picked up the same one with your surname inscribed. |
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what's your favorite all-time "find"
Posted By: TBob
3 other collectors and I purchased about a box full of around 750 T213s, mostly T213-2s but many T213-3s from an elderly gentleman from Louisiana in 1982. All have made their way in to the hobby and I regret selling so many of my cards including a near complete set of T213-3s to Bill Mastro. Dumb, dumb... |
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what's your favorite all-time "find"
Posted By: jeff
also not cards: |
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what's your favorite all-time "find"
Posted By: David
My greatest find was when I found out that I was related to the future NFL Hall of Fame (please, no debate, I don't want my feelings hurt) coach Don Coryell (My mom's maiden name is Coryell). From then on I added a 15% premium to everything I sell because it comes from the Don Coryell Estate. |
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what's your favorite all-time "find"
Posted By: W.M.
Nothing vintage,but a few years ago I did get lucky by finding two shoe boxes full of 1967-1972 baseball |
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what's your favorite all-time "find"
Posted By: Brian C Daniels
Best find in my life..........the wife! |
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what's your favorite all-time "find"
Posted By: runscott
personally, I would want her to be maybe... SIXTEEN!!! But, hey, that's just me. I like to listen to Jerry Lewis music and I think we was into eleven as well. He did that song "I wish I was eighteen again" - maybe it was because he felt less guilty about the age difference when he was eighteen. |
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what's your favorite all-time "find"
Posted By: John
i would like a 16 year old too scott but up in nj thats not legal. maybe ill move to georgia but i have no relatives down there(theres a hidden joke in there somewhere) |
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what's your favorite all-time "find"
Posted By: Brian C Daniels
I want the "friggin" CARD COLLECTION I had when I was 16****** |
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what's your favorite all-time "find"
Posted By: runscott
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