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Big card find in Detroit warehouse

QUITCRABQUITCRAB Posts: 1,016 ✭✭✭
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Anyone here of this ? Just saw a 15 second store with no details on ABC world news tonight

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  • ssollarsssollars Posts: 933 ✭✭✭✭
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  • hyperchipper09hyperchipper09 Posts: 1,453 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The great 1989 Topps find of 2015 image
  • ndleondleo Posts: 4,140 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Millions for late 80's and 90's topps? Good Luck with that.
    Mike
  • jsanzjsanz Posts: 250 ✭✭
    I think it's great. I love these stories. It might be a bunch of junk but it's still interesting to know huge piles of this stuff are still out there. I can't believe it was just left there for years. I'm still waiting on that big stash of 1970's unopened product to pop up.
    Love those 70's - early 80's packs and boxes...send me a message if you are selling because I am buying
  • ConstantineConstantine Posts: 2,369 ✭✭✭
    What joke journalism:

    "While only estimated to be individually worth between 99 cents and $5.99, the collective haul of hundreds of cases would potentially fetch millions if ever put on the market."

    It would probably cost more to haul that crap out of there lol.

  • ConstantineConstantine Posts: 2,369 ✭✭✭
    "Some of the boxes are full of complete team sets with one uncovered set showing the full squad from the 1990 Detroit Tigers." lol
  • jsanzjsanz Posts: 250 ✭✭
    One of the articles claimed that someone said they were making a living picking cards from that pile and reselling them. I don't think that would be worth the effort from what the pictures show. I am sure if there was anything good it is long gone.
    Love those 70's - early 80's packs and boxes...send me a message if you are selling because I am buying
  • mikelowell25mikelowell25 Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭
    Quick, somebody call Heritage; this looks like the next Black Swamp find!!!!image
  • seebelowseebelow Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭
    brings up the ?..does anyone know where are the major printing factories for topps et al? taiwan as the article states? because wow they sure were pumping them out in the late 80s, 90s to be bringing in cargo ships full of them. literally. i just figured they were made in the usa

    love the architecture. what a shame.
    Interested in higher grade vintage cards. Aren't we all. image
  • vintagefunvintagefun Posts: 1,974 ✭✭✭


    << <i>"Some of the boxes are full of complete team sets with one uncovered set showing the full squad from the 1990 Detroit Tigers." lol >>



    Plenty in the article to laugh at, but this one killed me.

    52-90 All Sports, Mostly Topps, Mostly HOF, and some assorted wax.
  • TabeTabe Posts: 6,103 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>"Some of the boxes are full of complete team sets with one uncovered set showing the full squad from the 1990 Detroit Tigers." lol >>



    Plenty in the article to laugh at, but this one killed me. >>


    You act like a team set with Walt Terrell, Gary Ward, and Scott Lusader included is something to sneeze at.
  • ndleondleo Posts: 4,140 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have a feeling that someone hid that inventory in the factory after they stole it from a warehouse. I lived in Detroit when these cards would have been around and I don't recall a large print operation located within the city.

    Mike
  • mtcardsmtcards Posts: 3,340 ✭✭✭
    Unfortunately this writers next story will be about the "find" with the large collection of used bandages and nude photos of Ernest Borgnine and their value

    +1 to you if you get the George Carlin reference
    IT IS ALWAYS CHEAPER TO NOT SELL ON EBAY
  • jsanzjsanz Posts: 250 ✭✭
    Wait, if they ever move that stuff out of there it will be more late 80's - early 90's junk hitting the market. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

    We just can't get rid of that stuff. It keeps coming.
    Love those 70's - early 80's packs and boxes...send me a message if you are selling because I am buying
  • GoDodgersFanGoDodgersFan Posts: 1,391 ✭✭✭
    Yes, junk cards, but still a cool find.
  • JustintimeJustintime Posts: 152 ✭
    Yeah junk or not it would still be cool to go through it.
  • jfkheatjfkheat Posts: 2,739 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Who knows, there could be 1990 Topps boxes with the NNOF Frank Thomas card.
    James
  • jfkheatjfkheat Posts: 2,739 ✭✭✭✭✭
    duplicate post
  • 19541954 Posts: 2,901 ✭✭✭
    I would be more pumped about finding the couch than all of those cards.

    Looking for high grade rookie cards and unopened boxes/cases
  • bouncebounce Posts: 1,094 ✭✭✭
    they certainly don't look untouched to me image

    i love that they're called "urban explorers" - seems to me they're more aptly termed "trespassers"
  • handymanhandyman Posts: 5,367 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Guys!!?
    You all understand they are burning down the building?
  • begsu1013begsu1013 Posts: 1,943 ✭✭
    "even i wouldn't make ya an offer on those"

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  • DavidPuddyDavidPuddy Posts: 3,485 ✭✭✭
    Bet that gum is yummmmy
    "The Sipe market is ridiculous right now"
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  • BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 9,331 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>brings up the ?..does anyone know where are the major printing factories for topps et al? taiwan as the article states? because wow they sure were pumping them out in the late 80s, 90s to be bringing in cargo ships full of them. literally. i just figured they were made in the usa

    love the architecture. what a shame. >>

    If memory serves (but sometimes it does'nt) there was a time TOPPS had some prodution based in Ireland, I believe. Not sure if they were factory or update sets during the 80's or 90's.Fairly certain it was not wax production related. Maybe this post can jog a memory or two with others here. I will check with a local expert who maybe can elaborate on this further.
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  • mlbfan2mlbfan2 Posts: 3,115 ✭✭✭


    << <i>love the architecture. what a shame. >>

    If memory serves (but sometimes it does'nt) there was a time TOPPS had some prodution based in Ireland, I believe. >>



    Tiffany cards, right?
  • 3BoyzTrading3BoyzTrading Posts: 798 ✭✭
    "A pallet of 1990 Topps Chicago White Sox Team Sets.Hey guys, check it out, looks like Frank Thomas but there isn't a name on it. "

    "A pallet of uncut 1990 Topps baseball, with some type of damage to them. Looks like a defective run of sheets, like someone poured something on the sheet during printing. Seems to be missing black ink. "


  • BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 9,331 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>love the architecture. what a shame. >>

    If memory serves (but sometimes it does'nt) there was a time TOPPS had some prodution based in Ireland, I believe. >>



    Tiffany cards, right? >>

    That was it. Thanks for that.
    Successful transactions:Tookybandit. "Everyone is equal, some are more equal than others".
  • digicatdigicat Posts: 8,551 ✭✭
    Most of the cases in the pic seem to be these: 1991-92 7th Inning Sketch OHL Hockey

    Looking at the state of this "find", I'd be kinda nervous to go in there. I'd be worried about finding more than cards laying around between the cases and under the uncut sheets.


    Wait, is that a BODY hidden under those cards on the left!?!!!

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  • elsnortoelsnorto Posts: 2,012 ✭✭


    << <i>Most of the cases in the pic seem to be these: 1991-92 7th Inning Sketch OHL Hockey

    Looking at the state of this "find", I'd be kinda nervous to go in there. I'd be worried about finding more than cards laying around between the cases and under the uncut sheets.


    Wait, is that a BODY hidden under those cards on the left!?!!!

    image >>



    And with this pièce de résistance find, the post industrial decay of Detroit is truly complete! image

    Snorto~
  • 72skywalker72skywalker Posts: 1,543 ✭✭✭
    That article had to be a joke right?
    Collecting Yankees and vintage Star Wars
  • StingrayStingray Posts: 8,843 ✭✭✭
    Is this where they dumped all their leftover cards when they closed the one Gibraltar Trade in Detroit?? image
  • begsu1013begsu1013 Posts: 1,943 ✭✭


    << <i>You all understand they are burning down the building? >>



    plenty of fuel.
  • LarkinCollectorLarkinCollector Posts: 8,975 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>

    << <i>love the architecture. what a shame. >>

    If memory serves (but sometimes it does'nt) there was a time TOPPS had some prodution based in Ireland, I believe. >>



    Tiffany cards, right? >>

    That was it. Thanks for that. >>


    There were quite a few others as well, all their American Baseball/American Football wax (UK minis), mini League Leaders, and quite likely anything glossy from the mid/late 80s-early 90s.
    Who is the Golf Card Guy?
  • ndleondleo Posts: 4,140 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Is this where they dumped all their leftover cards when they closed the one Gibraltar Trade in Detroit?? image >>



    Bingo! I think we have a winner.
    Mike
  • RipublicaninMassRipublicaninMass Posts: 10,051 ✭✭✭



    Commercial property is worth so little in Detroit, once they sell the cards, they will own the building free and clear!
  • handymanhandyman Posts: 5,367 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    << You all understand they are burning down the building? >>



    plenty of fuel. "

    Yeah and now "1million dollars" is in this 1.00 building

    That happens to be the best fire starting product on the planet..
  • ken61ken61 Posts: 55 ✭✭
    This is like something from a bad sci-fi movie - pallets of junk wax found in an abandoned factory in an abandoned part of Detroit.
  • SOMSOM Posts: 1,555 ✭✭✭
    They need to call Mr Mint
  • JBrulesJBrules Posts: 2,126 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Saw this follow up article in the Detroit Free Press this morning. They finally figured it out.

    The latest on the million dollar find
  • StingrayStingray Posts: 8,843 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Saw this follow up article in the Detroit Free Press this morning. They finally figured it out.

    The latest on the million dollar find >>



    What do I win!! image
  • bziddybziddy Posts: 710 ✭✭✭
    Did anyone else hear about the big Akron find of 100s of cases of Perlorian Cats?
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