The second group from of a major find of century-old baseball cards was sold through a New England auction house Wednesday night. Saco River Auction Company sold 800 cards for around $225,000 including a T206 Ty Cobb and Walter Johnson. They were part of a huge one owner original collection that came from a Portland, ME family who consigned them to auction last year. … [Read more...] about 2nd Part of Fresh T206 Find Sold at Auction
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First of Tobacco Card Find Sold at Auction; But Old Judge Negatives Score, Too
An avid smoker’s collection of early baseball cards including hundreds of T206s began finding new homes Wednesday night. The collection of over 1,400 ungraded tobacco cards was revealed when Saco River Auction Company announced the consignment last year. The first of what is expected to be several separate sales of the cards, many now graded by SGC, took place at the … [Read more...] about First of Tobacco Card Find Sold at Auction; But Old Judge Negatives Score, Too
Now Graded, Huge Tobacco Card Collection Generates Headlines
In late July, Saco River Auctions in Maine revealed that a family had turned over more than 1,400 cards from an original collection of T206 cards that had been accumulated more than a century ago by a Brooklyn man who apparently was quite a smoker. The story we ran generated a lot of response and with good reason. There were multiple cards of several Hall of Famers and many of … [Read more...] about Now Graded, Huge Tobacco Card Collection Generates Headlines