Frozen in time beneath a wooden doll house and a century's worth of dust, Mr. Kissner found a cardboard green box filled with baseball cards.That is pretty damn cool. Here I thought it was neat when dad found about 60 cards of his from 1964 up on top of the granary in the bank barn back in 1984. They were in pretty bad shape, but I do have a Pete Rose, a Juan Marichal and a Sandy Koufax out of those. Mine are probably worth $30 instead of $3,000,000.
The names sounded familiar -- Honus Wagner, Ty Cobb, Cy Young, Connie Mack -- and he soon contacted an auction house in Dallas.
It was his family's winning lottery ticket.
Experts say the trove of about 700 nearly mint cards just might represent the greatest and rarest discovery in the sports card industry's history. The best of the collection is expected to fetch more than $500,000 at the National Sports Collectors Convention next month in Baltimore while the entire stock could bring in $3 million. The cards are part of a rare 30-player set distributed with caramel candy in 1910. Only 635 of the undersized rectangular cards from the E98 series were known to exist and most of those displayed significant wear -- a treasure so limited that even the most zealous collectors had long given up hope of piecing together a complete set.
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Big Baseball Card Find In Defiance
The cards could be worth millions:
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cool stuff,
Local history,
the National pastime
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