Found In Cigar Box In Closet AGAIN: Caretaker's Inheritance Was Strip Cards of Babe Ruth & More!
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- Опубліковано 11 лип 2024
- In today's Attic Find Friday, I talk about the 1920s strip baseball card collection that a woman found in a cigar box in a closet, inherited from her mother, who inherited from someone she was caretaker for! Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, and more!
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Smarter for her to consign? Or sell outright?
Whatever she gets back from it is a bonus, as it cost her nothing, so I hope whatever she gets she puts to good use - or spends it on a holiday for her family.
As always, thank you for sharing this story, and have a great weekend. 👍
You too, John!
I would have absolutely no issue whatsoever sitting down with the potential seller and going through the cards and offering advice..... I've done it before.
Hi Mike, this was a great story. Hopefully some of the cards come back in 2 or 3. I look forward to reading the updates on this.
Thanks Jim!
Yes!!! These are great guys! The best in doing it!!!!
Another great video Mike! It's so great to see your channel gaining the traction you deserve!!
Thank you very much!
Great Video, I love learning about great vintage cards like these. I also loved the High Five interview. That kid has great energy.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great finds
Expand your horizons, albeit using your sense. You deserve it, you’re a terrific content creator and storyteller.
Thank you so much!
100 years from now..."She brings in this old collection in this pelican case. Again, what is with these old pelican cases? Everyone seemed to have old old prizm cards in these types of cases back in the day."
Haha so true!
Fun find right there.
Bulk sale! All cash! Very nice score
Very cool! Have a friend that inherited his Grandfather's collection and it is in a safe deposit box at a bank. Apparently many of the cards are Sandy Koufax. He has asked me to help look over and get values on them. I am super excited to look them over and see who else he has!
Sounds awesome!
Just 🤯 once again! I wish I got that lucky! Haha thanks Mike!
Me too, Warren
Lindbergh cards at the time, I'm sure were as coveted as any of them....a true icon from that time.
When your name is Tris or any unique famous person you’re obligated to know who that person is. Recently, I met a young college kid named Brooks, I found out he played baseball in high school, so, of course, I mentioned Robinson and he had never heard of him- poor parenting? Sponsorship opportunities are great but when they offer content ideas, run Charlie run. Another great tale, Mike! Happy to hear your newsletter is over 200, they’re really good!
Thanks for the support, Rob!
I thought it was run Forrest run. But what do I know? :-)
Great find, thank you for sharing
Thanks for watching!
Thanks as always for an awesome story. Joe Davis is the group submitter who worked with Geoff and I think now has some kind of affiliation with CardsHQ. Anyway, though not pretty and relatively inexpensive , these cards have a very historic significance in the hobby. Very cool and thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the info!
Interesting. I’ve been to that store years ago. I was very impressed with their organization and inventory. They were the first brick and mortar store that I saw selling online as well. This was probably around 1999 or so.
Nice
Thanks Mike for another great episode. Good luck with the sponsorship
Thank you!
Cigar boxes are/were sturdy, as they were generally made of some sort of humidity-leveling wood (cedar, cypress, various exotics) - cheaper woods or cardboard would have dried out or allowed the cigars the mold, and spoiled them …
Good info!
Also their were few, if any shoe boxes in households around that time. My generation definitely used shoe boxes. Their were no holders or specific means of card storage.
@JunkWaxHero My dad has been a cigar buff since I was little, and his garage is full of cigar boxes, which are full of all sorts of stuff, things, and bits (some times, even labelled!) -- if cigar boxes weren't the most common storage container, it makes a lot of sense that well-preseved card finds are often in cigar boxes. I have not-so valuable complete sets of 1985 and 1986 Topps Jumbo well-preserved and well-fit in Macanudo cigar boxes - not worth much but smell terrific!
Excellent information. Thank you.
Guess I’ll have to look in every cigar box I come across at yard sales, estate sales, etc. If I found anything good, I’d have to consign with someone that has experience in order to maximize a profit. Who am I kidding......I keep everything!
I’d sell most of the strip cards but would keep some for sure
@@JunkWaxHero, it would be in my best interest to sell, but I’d have to keep some as well. How could I not?
How did they play tennis in sweaters? I can't even wash dishes in a sweater....
lol this is such a good question
Maybe I missed but 0 Wagner?
Footnote: Grade them and call goldin, there's a big market for cards like these if one can reach the right audience
My name is Chris and I knew what piss was… these things have a way of working out and thankfully, you exist to educate him on someone older than young Brooks’ grandpa. I’d rather him know, “Brooks was here”, so was Red…
I’ve got that first babe Ruth years ago for $150
I need to get it graded
Nice!
Why can’t I ever find a treasure trove like that? Right?!
You and me both
My grandmother - who I'm not sure could lie if she tried - hated my father. That said, apparently my mother threw a box of purely Mickey Mantle cards out when he left her with me. Don't know what was in there, but she said it was just "two bushels of that handsome man on cardboard". Maybe they were all Sporting News cards all wrinkled, but even then ... my god woman. When the story comes from a woman that thinks you'll literally go to hell for saying "gosh darnit", you want to cry. Makes sense though. She threw my entire collection away when they moved. "Taking up space"
Ouch
Wow, another crazy find. Hey, can you tell me, for these hand cut cards, do you know if it's legit for people to cut them these days to sharpen the condition or would that be tampering? Just curious because they are already hand cut.
Really good question. I think it would be fine, but I’ll leave it up to the experts in the comments.
@@JunkWaxHero I would always leave them as is. You would just making the card smaller. some like buying for the character of the card and the stories it could only tell. It would be like trying to erase writing on the card, it may work or will make card worse.
@@JunkWaxHero Thanks. I noticed some of them already had the white borders cut off, like the original owner did it back in the day. Do you know if that affects the value?
@@djmoonchild01 most graders want to see the intended boarder for the highest grade. If you cut out, for example, box bottoms on wax boxes in late 80s leave the black boarder lines for highest grades. Very rare if you come across high grades of cut items if scissors are used. Most need to use sharp knife with a straight edge.
Shame strip cards dont sell for more I get that arent the best looking but these are playing day cards of HOF'ers I have a W512 Ty Cobb and its like one of the cheaper Cobb cards on the market which blows my mind
That’s awesome!
New sub, really cool channel super Dope 👏
Thank you!
I’d sell myself but if she’s not sure the best way to do it then using that shop is good. I’ve used them for group submissions before for PSA. As for competing with Geoff I think they are but I’d assume they’re baseball only and Geoff has all sorts of sports as well as pokemon and magic, so if I were in Atlanta I’d stick to Joe’s shop
Good call
if you have the time I always suggest consigning. If you just want them gone, then sell them outright. Most people that I have that contact me just want them gone.
Seems better for you!
Why can’t we find a cigar box full of cards stuffed in a wall. I actually have a couple vintage cigar boxes with tobacco cards in them
I love that
How does it benefit your listeners who have been with your channel from the beginning, for you to choose to get monetized?
I’ll have more Attic Find Friday stories, like I said. Is that not a benefit to my viewers?
If you were such a big tennis player and were (are) a huge tennis fan why don’t you ever cover/collect tennis cards on your channel?
I have some tennis cards! I’ve shown some. One is off at PSA right now.