Estate Sale Finds actually happen after all.

Charlie9

I am not one to believe most (or all) of the Ebay claims that they found an old box of cards at an estate sale... but after this mornings experience I'm more of a believer. I had the mother of a friend that works with estate sales keep an eye out for any older cards that ever came up and after 2 years of no calls she told me about a sale this weekend that had tons of "really old cards". She didn't have more detail than that but I thought I need to at least show up. So the sale is this morning and there are indeed tons of cards... loads of 5000 count boxes of 88 Donruss, 90 Fleer, 87 Topps...you get the picture. I did pick up a box of 93SP BB with 3 extra Jeter RC's for $15 and a 94SP set with a nice Arod for $20 so there were a few nice finds. Then amidst a big pile of junk cards I saw a shoebox that had a 68T FB card on the end of a stack of cards so I just grabbed the box as it was labelled $10 and for another $2 was a smaller box of some more 68T FB that were in toploaders. I grabbed them without looking much further as by then the room was quite crowded and I had to make sure I wasn't missing out on any other stuff. Well, I just go home and looked through the 2 boxes and although it's not extremely old stuff...I still love what I got for the price!

The $10 box had a stack of about 600 FB cards of 65 Philadephia, 67 Topps, and 68 Topps. A good number of these cards look like they're straight out of a vending box! Stuck in there were about 80 of the Topps Insert posters (including 3 full sets of 16) as well as a little baggy with another 80 or so 1969 Topps BB Decal inserts. I'll post some scans below. For the extra $2, the box of toploaders included some outstanding 68's of mostly stars including the ones scanned below. Great quality and tough to beat the price!

I think I'll have a fun weekend going through this stuff to see what is grade worthy because at first glance it looks like I'll at least get a hundred or more graded. Probably hard to see as I group-scanned but enjoy the pics (too bad about the Jim Brown print defect as it looks great otherwise)...

















By the way...anybody know how these decals grade out with centering, etc..

Leiascards

I go to all estate sales I can. I always find something worth buying. Rarely find old cards, but every so often it happens. The estate sale dealers here know little about 1980s action figures and stuff so finding boxes of old GI Joe and Transformers occurs about 2 or 3 times a year. Sports equipment is also very cheap and can be very profitable.

Stingray

Maybe it is just me, but does that Namath on the bottom right look odd?? Side borders look straight, but that top one looks tilted??

itzagoner

that's a nice find, good luck with the grading! gives us hound dogs some hope that there is still something left "out there"

Bosox1976

jrinck

Cards from 1987 are now somewhat old, so if someone finds a bunch of "old" cards from that time, they aren't kidding. Imagine what it'll be like in twenty more years...

"Hey, Dan, check out these old cards I just found!"

"Any Mantle? Mays? Aaron?"

"No, Biggio, Van Poppel, Jeffries..."

"Oh."

carew4me

<< <i>Maybe it is just me, but does that Namath on the bottom right look odd?? Side borders look straight, but that top one looks tilted?? >>




Very common for 68 Topps FB.

CDsNuts

So for like $40 you got $800 worth of cards? That's pretty good.

rexvos

I am incredibly jealous.

Ladder7

very nice work. good luck with 'em

Downtown1974

Congrats on your find Charlie!

cohocorp

congrats on your pickup charlie.

baseballfan

NICE!!!!!!!

Yankeeefan

Sweet find! It's stories like this that keep me going to estate sales or yard sales that claim to have collectibles. GL if you submit for grades.

Stingray

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<< <i>Maybe it is just me, but does that Namath on the bottom right look odd?? Side borders look straight, but that top one looks tilted?? >>




Very common for 68 Topps FB. >>



Thanks for the info, I am not familiar with these cards. Great find for sure!!

fur72

Congrats! I belileve in the estate sale myths. Sometimes you may have to look through alot of junk but good finds can be found. Usually there are boxes that are called lots. You may have to by a box filled with odd ball crap like fishing lures, golf balls etc. For instance my sister collects PEZ. While at an estate auction i found a box of late 70's crappy shape cards, some junk and 4 PEZ dispensers. Well we got the box for $18 out bidding some poor kid. There was an indian PEZ in there my sister sold for over $200 on the bay. Lesson learned. All i got was a bunch of round corner cards.

Keep your eyes peeled for estate auctions and what might be in the bottom of that box of junk.

PasadenaMudSlide

Congrats. Love to hear stories like this!

rube26105

sweet!!! i cant find nothing at estate or yard sales anymore lol-you hit the load there with the old fb!look nice in pics
randy

kidzfund

Stories like this gives the rest of us hope in finding the nuggets among the junk.

Joe

Goodsport40

Super find! Those 67's look great! Let us know the grading results, hopefully 9's and 10's!

Robert

jayhawke

Very nice find including some great baseball inserts.

Charlie9

Anybody have experience submitting the decal inserts? They all look perfect except for the centering and with the TCG on the side I wondered how they consider the centering?