Finding Forgotten About Cards

jfkheat

Sorry for the long read. Some of you may remember that I sold off my vintage card collection a few years ago. I still have a closet full of cards from boxes I opened years ago. Since I retired 4 years ago I have been selling a lot of cheaper cards that I accumulated since I started collecting in the mid 80s. Once in a while I'll run across a couple cards I forgot I had that are worth $100 or more. A couple weeks ago I started going through a stack of boxes that I hadn't looked at in over 20 years. Starting in 1995 or so I opened a lot of basketball boxes and just put the cards in storage boxes. I remember opening 8 boxes of 1996 Topps Chrome basketball. I put a couple sets of those together and kept them separate from the rest of the boxes I opened. In the last few days I came across some Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan and a few other player cards that I didn't realize I had put away. A couple of the boxes I found had enough cards to put sets together. Here are pictures of the cards I found.

Cs223406

wow -- 99-00 chrome refractor is a huge card!

jfkheat

I missed adding one picture.

2014bestservice

New value sub if they ever reopen 🥰

RonSportscards

When you see yellowed top loaders, you know it probably hasn't been looked at in awhile.

craig44

always fun to find some buried treasure!!

jfkheat

@RonSportscards said:
When you see yellowed top loaders, you know it probably hasn't been looked at in awhile.

These were all loose in storage boxes. The toploaders are all I had to put them in when I found the cards.