The hobby’s modest population of a deadball era trading card set just grew by 38. New Jersey-based Just Collect just purchased the previously unknown group of 1914 Fatima tobacco cards (T222) from a Maryland family that had owned them since the year of issue. The group includes several Hall of Famers including Walter Johnson, Frank Chance, Grover Cleveland … [Read more...]
Yahtzee! 1914 Texas Tommy Find Includes Cobb, Jackson
Tucked away in an old Yahtzee game box for years, a fabulous new find of early 20th century baseball cards will come to auction this summer. SCP Auctions will offer the collection, which includes over 432 cards, highlighted by the first 1914 E224 Texas Tommy Ty Cobb ever to be graded and just the second graded Texas Tommy card of Shoeless Joe Jackson. The Jackson … [Read more...]
The Wayback Collector: Large Find of 19th Century Tobacco Cards Enters Hobby
Finding even a small 19th century tobacco collection is a notable discovery. But when that collection includes hundreds of cards, it's a haul rarely seen. That was the case, however, with a collection recently acquired by Dave Hobson of BaseballCardBuyer.com, who was approached by the owner of approximately 800 19th century cards including both sports and non-sports … [Read more...]
House Cleaning Job Yields Cardboard Gold
Who hasn’t dreamed of wandering through an old abandoned house or estate sale and uncovering a stack of old baseball cards? It’s happened plenty of times, after all, but luck definitely has to be on your side. While not everyone finds a couple million dollars worth of Ty Cobb cards, it would be nice to find something besides 1990 Fleer, wouldn’t it? For one Baltimore … [Read more...]
Hundreds of Forgotten Tobacco-Era Cards Found Inside Pennsylvania House
If you’ve ever dreamed about going into an old house and stumbling across a long-forgotten stash of really old baseball cards just sitting there for the taking, a Pennsylvania man can tell you exactly how it feels. And he didn’t have to go far to find them. “Jerry” lives in the north central part of the state. The home next door to his had been falling into … [Read more...]
Vintage Baseball Card Collection on Antiques Roadshow Draws a ‘Wow’
Antiques Roadshow came to Green Bay, Wisconsin and while they didn’t find a Don Hutson jersey or one of Vince Lombardi’s old fedoras, they did welcome a nice group of valuable baseball cards. In a show that aired Monday night, a local woman brought three cards from a larger 1950s childhood collection her husband apparently forgotten about until recently. She told … [Read more...]
Stick Save: NC Teacher Finds Vintage Bernie Parent Memorabilia At Thrift Store
It’s fitting that a sixth-grade history teacher who loves hockey found a piece of hockey history. At a thrift store. In basketball-mad North Carolina. That’s what makes Chris Brindell-Watt’s story so compelling. Brindell-Watt, 49, has taught history and social studies at Cane Creek Middle School in Fletcher, North Carolina, for the past 12 years. He’s originally from … [Read more...]
Picker’s Rare Find: T206 Broad Leaf Ty Cobb to Enter Market
A newly discovered T206 Ty Cobb with an ultra-rare Broad Leaf 460 advertising back has been authenticated and will be offered for sale in Robert Edward Auctions’ Spring Catalog. Found some time ago along with some other tobacco-related paper items and advertising by an antique/junk hunter in western New York who collects old telephones, the card is expected to bring $50,000 … [Read more...]
Notes: Topps Release Dates; Gregorius Autograph Deal; West Coast Football Find
Several upcoming Topps trading card products are being pushed back by a week or longer. It’s not unusual to see changes in release or “street” dates but the new list, covering October and November, was unusually large. Here’s a look at the new release dates: Product Desc 2017 Topps Diamond Icons Baseball Street … [Read more...]
1948 Bowman Baseball Packs Sell for $521,180
A forgotten cache of unopened boxes and packs of decades-old baseball, football and basketball cards turned turned into a high six-figure windfall for a Tennessee-based consignor early Friday morning as Mile High Card Company's auction came to a close. As we first reported last month, the group was headlined by a one-of-a-kind partial box of 19 packs of 1948 … [Read more...]