If you collected BB cards as a youngster as well as coins you should't miss this.
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As I was reading the story I was struck with the similarity the "horde" has with other Numismatic hordes that have come to light-----put away many years ago by a collector who didn't realize what he was doing and found by relatives who didn't know what they had, sent to our good friends at Heritage who were simply amazed by the collection and ready to be auctioned at Baltimore. The line that got me from the story is rather "coin-esque" in nature................the ones from the attic in the town of Defiance are nearly pristine, untouched for more than a century. The colors are vibrant, the borders crisp and white. This really brings it home, doesn't it, you never know what might be hiding in a corner in Grandma's attic.
I might have to visit Heritage's card venue just to see what they look like. BTW, does PCGS authenticate sports cards and if they do did they grade this collection(oops, just noticed they went to PSA)?? Thanks in advance and enjoy a trip down memory lane.
Al H.
I might have to visit Heritage's card venue just to see what they look like. BTW, does PCGS authenticate sports cards and if they do did they grade this collection(oops, just noticed they went to PSA)?? Thanks in advance and enjoy a trip down memory lane.
Al H.
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no. BUT PSA does, which is part of Collectors Universe.
(see the tab at the top of screen that says PSA) ^^^^^^
I watch Baseball cards on ebay. The cards from pre 1970 do okay.
The post 1970 have too many for sale and most sit forever.
My connection to baseball cards was back in the 1960's. I was a kid and when I was 10 -11 years of age I got a new bike. It was a "Sting-Ray" with a long banana seat. You could pop wheelies on that bike and ride for blocks on the rear wheel only with the front wheel proudly airborne. Some of my neighborhood friends had the same style bikes and we rode around the neighborhood together having contests to see who could pop and ride a wheelie the longest distance. We then discovered how "uber-cool" we could be if we took baseball cards and attached them with clothes pins to the rear frame of the bike so that the card would extend into the spokes of the wheels. The cards would make cool noises (like a deck of cards being shuffled) as the edges of same would make contact with the spokes as the wheel turned. So my friends and I needed to get baseball cards. We went to the local stores and bought packs of bubble gum that had baseball cards in them. We loved the cards for the sounds that they made on our bikes, not because we were interested in the players on the cards.
As the years passed I accumulated a large number of baseball cards. Most of them got beat up pretty bad from being attached to my bike. I set them aside and eventually they got tossed in the trash by either me or my mother. Never really knew if I had any card that was worth keeping.
Now for me this story would be perfect if I was the guy who found the box in the attic of grandma's home and if instead of baseball cards the box was filled with "nearly pristine coins that have been untouched for a century".
The cards are from 1910 and smaller than recent cards:
And SanctionII, you've just recited a chapter of my youth.
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My bike was the bomb because it was painted a deep metallic blue and the banana seat cover was also a deep blue with silver specks. Add to the blue color of the frame and seat the silver color of the handle bars, wheels and spokes and you have a classic.
If my bike were around today, it would be a prime candidate for an upgrade by the bike artists into a bicycle version of a tricked out low rider.
Or maybe not. The extra examples now available might just boost the market as for the first time ever gem examples are around. Shades of the SS Central America.
Amazing story, especially given the fragility of cards. They almost look too good to be real!
<< <i>Neat story. To those holding the currently finest graded specimens of those series, this is akin to the mint finding bags of 1903-0 Morgan dollars in the Treasury vaults.
Or maybe not. The extra examples now available might just boost the market as for the first time ever gem examples are around. Shades of the SS Central America. >>
I'd liken it to finding an unknown collection of mint state 18th century large cents that turns the current condition census on its ear. Conventional wisdom is that this just doesn't happen.
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knowing...just knowing all the cards i destroyed on my front forks
absolutely nothing like this find though
huge congrats to the finder
lol too on note of our bikes back then...couldn't afford those schwinn's so it was my royce-union n me
you bet i had those ape hangers no sissy bars but as soon as evel knievel became known
i was in the garage with a hack saw cutting my apes down to stubbies and turned downward
lasvegasteddy in 1970 here on my royce-union
I makes me dream of what might have been in my grandmother's attic, but wasn't - not that she didn't have some cool stuff. Her best item was a Tiffany lamp that ended up going to the late entertainer, Liberace, after it sold for probably a lot less at the auction of her house contents.
As the for cards, many years ago I ran into a card dealer who was buying basketball cards from the 1960s at strong prices. I knew I had a lot of them, almost a complete set with Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlin and Oscar Robinson to name a few. The trouble was my mother had put the attic and did not know where. I searched and searched, but could never turn them. When I broke up my family home, I did find them but by then it was too late. The market had collapsed as it has for most all cards from the early 1960s, and they were worth very little.
Here is one of my favorites
MJ
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A huge find indeed! I stopped collecting as a teenager, but I've got some nice Topps cards from my youth. Nothing like this horde though. Wow!
Didn't there used to ba a Sports Card forum here on the CU boards as well as a Stamp Collectors forum, not to mention the Open Forum? Just wondering?
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