Some dude called me yesterday. UPDATE - A Bird in the hand.
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so, just for fun, i thought i'd chime in about MY potential amazing find. 
yeah, it seems this guy has a monster collection of stuff which he inherited from his brother, who passed away about 10 years ago. fair enough.....it must have been traumatic to lose a close family member and then take responsibility for his prized possessions, but, ultimately this guy did, in spite of the fact he knows nothing about cards, nor does he want to.
he took all the boxes of cards, approximately 30 he says, and stacked them on a pallet and covered them up with a tarp.
outside. in the backyard. where it's over 100 degrees during the day in summertime. like now.
hmmmmmm.
maybe this stuff is under a tree or shaded by a wall or overhang. i didn't want to ask for too many details. somewhere at the core of all this might be something special.
i retained this thought even after he also reminded me about how many recent wet winters this stuff has survived as well.
he mentioned Mantle. that's really all it took. details someday soon.
yeah, it seems this guy has a monster collection of stuff which he inherited from his brother, who passed away about 10 years ago. fair enough.....it must have been traumatic to lose a close family member and then take responsibility for his prized possessions, but, ultimately this guy did, in spite of the fact he knows nothing about cards, nor does he want to.
he took all the boxes of cards, approximately 30 he says, and stacked them on a pallet and covered them up with a tarp.
outside. in the backyard. where it's over 100 degrees during the day in summertime. like now.
hmmmmmm.
maybe this stuff is under a tree or shaded by a wall or overhang. i didn't want to ask for too many details. somewhere at the core of all this might be something special.
i retained this thought even after he also reminded me about how many recent wet winters this stuff has survived as well.
he mentioned Mantle. that's really all it took. details someday soon.
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<< <i>As long as he stacked and tarped them, you should be good to go. Whats a Mantle with black mold go for these days anyway? >>
ooooo, thanks for the reminder. i'm ordering a Hazmat suit.
Shane
he did mention "sets".
he also said most of it was accumulated when his brother was a LOT younger.
maybe i'll find an exotic snake.
<< <i>What kind of qualifier does PSA give for mouse droppings on cards ? >>
probably along the same lines as MINT 9 (CP): the cat pee qualifier
buying O-Pee-Chee (OPC) baseball
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peace
but.......i have it on good authority that there actually IS something worth seeing here, and my source is dependable....he knows condition very well and insists that it would be worth the effort to take a look.
i must believe him.
i also know that this same source was allowed to "rescue" at least a couple vintage cards from this horde about 5 years ago or so.
i don't what they are. he won't tell me.
this could turn out to be a great big whompin' surprise, or........the cards he took were the only ones worth taking.
Snakeboots optional....
decent Schmidt rookie, well-centered, nice color, soft corners....possible 6
not bad.....
heh heh.
modern dudes on shiny cardboards.....the A-Rod auto was a nice find, i guess they go for good $ in a Beckett holder, gotta look into that......
throughout my experiences with liquidating collections, i have always gone into it with minimized expectations and tempered excitement, but as almost always happens, there's that one thing, that special "find" within the pile that kind of softens the blow, so to speak, because after sweating my arse off in the heat on Monday while viewing and loading/unloading this stuff, then spending all day yesterday tromping in and out of a hot garage with box after box of junk, i felt it was due time for me to find that one thing......so i grabbed an ugly stack of 1977 Topps baseball cards, most of which wouldn't even get the qualifying nod for my raw near mint set.
i found this.
mission accomplished.
<< <i>WOW, I'd say it was well worth it!! Nice find! I can't believe there was an Arod auto laying in those boxes... lol. >>
i agree. i can't believe it either.
this stuff was fished out, all 90's full of inserts, subsets, etc, etc + gobs of old school collector stuff, like......ahem - McGwire and Sosa cards, when laid end-to-end might stretch from here to New Jersey!
the guy who accumulated these cards obviously knew what to look for and several local card shops managed to stay afloat just a little longer thanks to his buying habits on new product.
Anwyays thanks again
peace
<< <i>Thanks for the update. I kinda wanted to see how it all looked sitting in his garden, under the tarp and tree, just for fun...
Anwyays thanks again
peace >>
you're right, i wish i could have done a photo spread for you, complete with centerfold-quality bedroom shots.
so, when i arrived, dude and friend had already stacked everything up on and around a table, but you could tell where weathering had occured and several boxes had water damage, cards were f'd up, but nothing presumably valuable so far.....there are still more boxes which i need to check, but i think most of the goodies are found already.
the area where the boxes once sat beneath the tarp was teeming with crickets, they were jumping everywhere inclduing into the swimming pool.
Thanks again...
i guess they don't like shiny stuff, but i need to wear sunglasses there's so much of it.
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there was no money exchanged for this stuff with the understanding that anything sellable will be divided up fairly, only so i can be compensated for my time and potentially wind up with a few more nice cards in my collection, the rest goes to the owner.
the aforementioned friend who helped out is someone for whom i already liquidated a few nice sets, and i wound up with some very nice cards to add to my own sets.
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when i told him what to expect, he was kind of taken aback, so i explained to him that there is a lot about this collection which seems to be more conspicuous by absence than presence....i told him that perhaps the person who owned these cards was pretty hip to market tendencies and quite likely bought, sold & traded his way to other stuff, so it would make sense if key sets or cards were missing.
then he mentioned the "other box".
ya know, the one that was protected from the elements, crickets and......me.
i suppose i'll be receiving another phone call when the "other box" comes out of storage.
stay tuned.