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Best card(s) you found in your house that you had no idea you had?

lightningboylightningboy Posts: 1,483 ✭✭✭
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So, I have been cleaning out a large hutch in my living room (getting new flooring layed in) with cards ------------ mainly unopened purchases from the last 2 years and some big graded rookie cards. Went through one of the final drawers and saw what I thought was an empty wax box and when I went to grab it I spilled out a bunch of baseball wax packs. Immediately I assumed these had been opened and simply closed back up. But after checking each and every one, I realized they had never been opened. As I sat and stared, I could not for the life of me remember where or when I would have bought these. Anyways, what I was looking at were 36 blue wax packs in beautiful condition with a possibility of a Rickey rookie in any one of them

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  • StingrayStingray Posts: 8,843 ✭✭✭
    Not sure if is my best, and the issue is that I do know that I have it, I just can't find it. A 1992 Collectors Edge promo auto Elway card.
  • recbballrecbball Posts: 1,521 ✭✭✭
    I found a '78 Fred Dean card in a box of commons I had, subbed it and it came back a 9.
  • ashabbyashabby Posts: 471 ✭
    I am scanning in my cards to psa. And find each week cards I just can't remember when I got them. I have a good memory. So has been eye opening.
  • Dpeck100Dpeck100 Posts: 10,912 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Great idea for a thread.

    Unfortunately I have nothing to add.

  • Baez578Baez578 Posts: 967 ✭✭✭
    92 bowman mariano and 93 UD SP Jeter
  • dberk12dberk12 Posts: 399 ✭✭
    I recently found 2 mint Elway rookies. I don't collect football cards so I moved them to free up some money for baseball cards.


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  • EAsportsEAsports Posts: 1,566 ✭✭✭
    I just found a 2009 Bowman Chrome Masahiro Tanaka rookie if that counts. Didn't even remember opening any of that, but I guess I did.
    My LSU Autographs

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  • shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,607 ✭✭✭✭
    I bought a raw '80 OPC Michel Goulet rookie off eBay years ago for probably $8 or so. I grabbed it with the mail one day when I was leaving the house and put it in the console in my car. I forgot it was there and left it in my car for like 2 years. When I finally found it, I subbed it hoping for an 8. It came back a 9 and I sold it for somewhere around $325. It was a nice surprise!
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  • FavreFan1971FavreFan1971 Posts: 3,103 ✭✭✭
    About 15 years ago I was tossing some junk baseball from the late 80's. Kept a few stars but tossed about 30,000 cards. Did a last once over of the 1989 Fleer cards and found a stack, and I mean a stack of Billy Ripken FF cards. 54 of them to be exact.
  • GuruGuru Posts: 3,127
    We're having our house painted, so I had to move things around this week. Found a shoebox (of all places to store things) marked baseball cards. I realized when we moved here 2 years ago my parents emptied out their shed of all the stuff I had been storing forever and brought it here. So this must have been in with that stuff. So I dove in and there were lots of 80's commons on top, but I did find an 89 Fleer Johnson error, a stack of 93 Topps Jeter rookies, a bunch of Griffey Jr cards....and my favorite...a 1993 SP Foil Jeter rookie. I don't really remember opening any SP back then so the only thing I can think of is that I traded it with a friend or something. Anyway...great thread!
  • hyperchipper09hyperchipper09 Posts: 1,455 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Mixed in with a box of 90 Leaf I thought was long gone. Also found a couple of Griffey's. Not gem but a cool find in the back of the closet.
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  • LarkinCollectorLarkinCollector Posts: 8,975 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sadly, I keep running across things I didn't know I had, but they usually end up being something like a brick of Danny Tartabull rookies image At least he's 'most wanted' for something I guess image
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  • itzagoneritzagoner Posts: 8,753 ✭✭
    actually, i do have an idea, but no clue where to look for the horde of Star Wars cards i handed over to my wife a couple decades ago. through the process of evolution, it became common knowledge that some of those cards may be worth a little money. so, she found out about it and won't tell me where to find them. image
  • mlbfan2mlbfan2 Posts: 3,115 ✭✭✭
    Found over 300 1988 Donruss Devon White PSA 7s in my attic. I had tried for years to get an 8, but it's a tough card.
  • LarkinCollectorLarkinCollector Posts: 8,975 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Found over 300 1988 Donruss Devon White PSA 7s in my attic. I had tried for years to get an 8, but it's a tough card. >>


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  • DanBessetteDanBessette Posts: 6,421 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Found over 300 1988 Donruss Devon White PSA 7s in my attic. I had tried for years to get an 8, but it's a tough card. >>



    LMAO!
  • MULLINS5MULLINS5 Posts: 4,517 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Found over 300 1988 Donruss Devon White PSA 7s in my attic. I had tried for years to get an 8, but it's a tough card. >>



    lolll
  • MULLINS5MULLINS5 Posts: 4,517 ✭✭✭
    Didn't someone here find a 1990 Topps George Bush USA1 that they didn't know they had?
  • CenteredMantlesCenteredMantles Posts: 164 ✭✭✭
    I found a 92-93 Beam Team Jordan in my brother's storage that was mine and pack pulled from back in the day. Not very valuable but it's rather minty and is a gorgeous looking card.
  • DanBessetteDanBessette Posts: 6,421 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Didn't someone here find a 1990 Topps George Bush USA1 that they didn't know they had? >>



    I don't even know what this is or why it's collectible. Rare?
  • LarkinCollectorLarkinCollector Posts: 8,975 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Didn't someone here find a 1990 Topps George Bush USA1 that they didn't know they had? >>



    I don't even know what this is or why it's collectible. Rare? >>


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  • DanBessetteDanBessette Posts: 6,421 ✭✭✭
    Sheesh.
  • clarke442clarke442 Posts: 611 ✭✭✭✭✭
    In my old room at my parents house, where some of my cards are still stored.
    Looking for one thing and finding another, and not finding the first thing.
    Anyway, found a 1984 Fleer Cello with Carl Yastrzemski on top, his last card.
    Have no idea when or where I got it, but I have one.
  • DanBessetteDanBessette Posts: 6,421 ✭✭✭
    That's awesome! I have a bunch of team sets and oddball sets in 2 big binders. I don't forget which sets I have, but I sometimes forget which players are included in the sets. Knew I had a bunch of McDonald's Game Day football cards from 1993 or 94, but I forgot they included an Andre Tippett card. That was a pleasant surprise. Same with my 1980-something McDonald's scratch offs; had forgotten the All Pro set included John Hannah.

    The same thing happens sometimes when I go to signings. I'll pick up a raw card of a player to get signed, and only later do I realize I have a card of that player buried in a set.
  • BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 9,545 ✭✭✭✭✭
    After last years NBA finals I rummaged through my Spurs Basketball pile and found a Tim Duncan 97/98 Ultra Fleer Star Power Supreme that I'd forgotten about. 1 in 288 packs according to Beckett. Am sure there are more that are packed away that will be a surprise to discover one day. Will be as if am opening new packs since more have likely been forgotten about.
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  • mattinglymint23mattinglymint23 Posts: 1,261 ✭✭
    I had dug up my old childhood collection and my stack of 86 football.
    Had the rice and the young. The rice graded 8 and was sold on the boards. The young a 7.5 and I still have it.
  • flcardtraderflcardtrader Posts: 798 ✭✭✭
    I have none that I did not realize I had.....mine are more along the lines of - "where did I put that?"

    To date, I have lost a 70-71 Chamberlain and a 73 FB Set.

    That was 10-20 years ago and I am still looking for them knowing full well they are gone never to be seen again - but I keep looking!

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  • JuggsJuggs Posts: 495 ✭
    About 10 years ago my grandparents passed away and their house was put on the market. I had most of my childhood cards there, but was pretty sure they were all commons (late 70's thru late 80's) and in fairly worn condition. I decided to spend an afternoon rummaging through the stuff (about 30 - 3200 count boxes in total). As I thought it was pretty much common beat up stuff, until I pulled 4 nice Montana RC's from a box. Very strange they were in there and very strange they were in good shape.

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