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Stolen Baseball Card Collection

TonyCTonyC Posts: 1,401 ✭✭✭
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Who appraised that collection at $11,000?

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  • AkbarCloneAkbarClone Posts: 2,476 ✭✭✭
    My reading comprehension skills may be missing with this story--as I don't see anywhere where they list all the cards that were stolen (and valued at $11,000). I only see a picture that shows "several" of the cards that were recovered--so I can't comment on whether the entire collection was valued at $11,000 or not.

    I collect Vintage Cards, Commemorative Sets, and way too many vintage and modern player collections in Baseball (180 players), Football (175 players), and Basketball (87 players). Also have a Dallas Cowboy team collection.
  • TNP777TNP777 Posts: 5,710 ✭✭✭
    I'll bet the owner was really happy that his '87 Ruben Sierra record breaker was recovered.

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  • hhmag70hhmag70 Posts: 2,107


    << <i>My reading comprehension skills may be missing with this story--as I don't see anywhere where they list all the cards that were stolen (and valued at $11,000). I only see a picture that shows "several" of the cards that were recovered--so I can't comment on whether the entire collection was valued at $11,000 or not. >>




    I think it was the big bold title of the news story, but my sight could be going.
  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,487 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>An investigation by Wareham Police Detectives has led to the recovery of several extremely rare baseball cards that were reported stolen from a local residence. >>

    So, do we think this was accurate reporting?
    Mike
  • AkbarCloneAkbarClone Posts: 2,476 ✭✭✭
    The Sierra card makes me want to bet the collection was worth way more than 11,000--you just don't see that card in that condition very often--must be rare. IF he graded it, it would be a low Pop grade for sure.
    I collect Vintage Cards, Commemorative Sets, and way too many vintage and modern player collections in Baseball (180 players), Football (175 players), and Basketball (87 players). Also have a Dallas Cowboy team collection.
  • AkbarCloneAkbarClone Posts: 2,476 ✭✭✭


    << <i>So, do we think this was accurate reporting? >>



    Only for the people who only read the titleimage
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  • TabeTabe Posts: 6,236 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Any chance the T-206s are legit?

    Tabe
  • ReljacReljac Posts: 758
    awesome! looks like they were in the family for years, and must've been kept in the kids toy box or back shed for a few decades as well...
  • MantleMarisFordBerraMantleMarisFordBerra Posts: 1,711 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Any chance the T-206s are legit?

    Tabe >>



    Not the Cobb. That was the first thing I noticed. Hard to say about the other two. Perhaps the owner is trying some type of insurance scam and was able to get a few unsuspecting cops to fill out the proper forms and then had an equally unknowledgeable report pick up the story.

    I hate to be so suspicious, especially if this turns out to in fact be a theft, but the value of the cards pictured is approximately seventy three cents - hard to imagine the rest of his collection totaled 11K.
  • 1989FleerBillRipkencollector1989FleerBillRipkencollector Posts: 4,590
    On July 12, 2010 at approximately 4:00 p.m., Wareham police stopped a vehicle on Sandwich Rd. in Wareham that was being driven by the suspect identified as 29 year old Melissa Sleeper of 7 Rainbow Circle, Buzzards Bay.

    lol. Her address. House number and all. Dude needs to rob her back.
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  • SportsCardCollectorSportsCardCollector Posts: 320 ✭✭
    "Sleeper was arrested at the scene and charged with receiving stolen property over $250.00."

    If I was her, I'd fight the charges. No way those 7 cards they found on her are worth over $250.
    Case dismissed.
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  • zep33zep33 Posts: 6,897 ✭✭✭
    I live about 20-25 minutes from there
  • ndleondleo Posts: 4,180 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Somehow I don't think a T206 Cobb and a 1987 Ruben Sierra RB card would reside in the same box. Looks like a scam.
    Mike
  • fkwfkw Posts: 1,766 ✭✭
    The T and E cards look authentic.
    The Bender is either a E92, E101, E102, or T216. The T206 Cobb has a diamond cut assuring authenticity, and the Heinie Wagner is a common player. Nothing too big on those 3. the Cobb is a $600 card at best, the Bender would be $100 the Wagner about $75. The T201s are authentic too, and the Cobb/Crawford is the best card in set, about a $300 card.
  • billwaltonsbeardbillwaltonsbeard Posts: 3,748 ✭✭✭✭
    that Sierra is counterfeit
    My cards on COMC
  • ndleondleo Posts: 4,180 ✭✭✭✭✭
    There has to be more cards than what is in the pic. Grandpa smoked in 1909 but didn't buy another pack for 78 years?
    Mike
  • kingnascarkingnascar Posts: 636 ✭✭✭
    Using those cards as a price guideline, my collection is now worth 3 billion dollars.
    Time to sell!
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  • WillieBoyd2WillieBoyd2 Posts: 5,275 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Did the lovely Melissa pick up the cards along with her "fee"?

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