Local Auction
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My brother tipped me off to a local auction that was selling off a "warehouse find" of cards from an Illinois pharmacy that was closing. Since it was only about 40 minutes away, I decided to go check it out. I was amazed at the sheer volume a pharmacy had stashed away. The owner either was a hoarder or had a terrible business model. I was also shocked to see what people were paying for the cards. I'm thinking I need to abandon ebay and start selling through local auctions. Here are some photos I took
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Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
"Common sense is the best distributed commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it"
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"On November 14, at our auction site in Hamilton, IL, we will be selling Bill & Mary Jo’s lifetime collection of trade cards. This is one of the largest collections (millions) of baseball, football, basketball, hockey, character, tv & comic cards including 1986-2001 from all manufacturers. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to purchase quality & quantity cards to sell at absolute, unreserved public auction!"
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Are you talking about the vending boxes? They probably had a machine in the front of the store. Love the 89 Fleer boxes there. Lots of junk, but some fun rips at the right price.
No, I'm referring to the 5,000 count boxes under the table in the first photo and the 800-1,000 count boxes to the left in the final photo.
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I see lots of boxes of singles too. That seems odd for a pharmacy.
I don't know this for a fact, but it seemed pretty apparent that the store owner was also a collector
"Common sense is the best distributed commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it"
I saw an 81 Topps Pete Rose sell for $20 this summer. It was crazy. Mid 80 Seavers, Bench, etc going for $5 each. However last year I bought a 5000 ct box of 91 UD in order with 22 Favre rookies for $3. You never know what crowd you will get. Cool pics though. Give us a base line on what price some things were fetching if you would.
I didn't stick around for most of the auction, but the majority of the boxes I saw were selling for $3-6 ea.
"Common sense is the best distributed commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it"
I didn't stick around for most of the auction, but the majority of the boxes I saw were selling for $3-6 ea.
After picking up those 1986 Fleer Basketball cases, there was no reason to stick around. Nice score!!
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Collecting:
Any unopened Baseball cello and rack packs and boxes from the 1970's and early 1980s.
was reading about randy johnson's toughest cards and those look like 89 big baseball cases hidden down there under the table. still "junk", but 10's pull in about $200+ each.
mighta been worth a case or all of'em if the price was right.
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of course, looks like someone was already casing them and distinctively decided to wear their baggy jeans that day for the ol' stash n dash!
was reading about randy johnson's toughest cards and those look like 89 big baseball cases hidden down there under the table. still "junk", but 10's pull in about $200+ each.
Johnson's in Series 3 IIRC and those look like Series 1 cases.