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Post by brewerbruce on Jul 10, 2012 17:59:20 GMT -5
20 members of a family in Ohio are thrilled Aunt Jean was a packrat. Among the many boxes uncovered in an attic in an old Defiance, Ohio home was 700 century-old baseball cards worth about $3 million, at least in the opinion of one expert.
The manufacturer and the exact date of the cards is unclear, but the cards are members of the E98 series from around 1910, according to PSA. The authenticators had dealt with fewer than 700 E98s previously in all of their years of grading cards. Now one find has yielded more more than that total, including a PSA 10 Honus Wagner and 16 PSA 9 Ty Cobb’s.
“Every future find will ultimately be compared to this,” said Joe Orlando, president of Professional Sports Authenticator.
Karl Kissner has control of the cards now. He believes they belonged to his grandfather, Carl Hench, who ran a meat market in Defiance and could have gotten them as promotional items. The plan is for the cards to go to auction, with 20 cousins in the Hench family splitting the proceeds.
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Post by TW on Jul 11, 2012 6:46:53 GMT -5
Wow! Talk about mining gold out of an attic.
I wonder if they wouldn't have been wise to find one collector who was willing to "own" the greatest collection of E98s ever known. That person would be "King" of collectors.
There has to be someone out there with so much money that dropping $5 mill on them wouldn't be a problem.
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Post by amoeba15 on Jul 11, 2012 8:38:42 GMT -5
Yes, come clean my house..I have 800,000 COPPER pennies dating to the mid 1850's. I have several pennies in plastic slabs with bar codes, the most expensive is worth $800.00. I have double dies, wide AM's and several other error coins in plastic slabs with bar codes of pennies minted since 1970 which are worth between $100-$500.
Also, I have lots of silver and gold coins, US olympic coins, gold and silver coins re the life and times of Jesus Christ, I have US and foreign silver and gold coins, I have coins re Pope John Paul II and soooooo much more.
I have several number one issues of comic books, several years worth of baseball and football cards dating to the 60's and well and much more.
I have tons of hummels and beer steins from germany, not to mention original signatures of photos by Bart Starr, Clinton, Clinton & Gore, Bill and Hilary Clinton, Chief Justice Ginsburg, Governor Wilder, Mary Sue Terry and many, many others.
Plus, I have a Omega Constellation gold watch and band with 32 jewels that was appraised in the mid 80's for $25,000.00
Also, I purchased more then 20 Royal Doulton Pretty Ladies Figurines, many of which were signed by Michael Doulton, which I bought for my Mother on special occasions and which she will pass on to me.
Our family has purchased lots of antiques, such as furniture and collectibles that are expected to be passed on from one generation to the next.
My Fiancee, Mary's family is the same way, except her father has some very, very expensive mint condition cars dating back to the 50's, as well as lots of land.
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Post by TW on Jul 11, 2012 9:31:19 GMT -5
Have you, or any other member of your family, been called a hoarder?  |
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Post by amoeba15 on Jul 11, 2012 10:03:53 GMT -5
Have you, or any other member of your family, been called a hoarder?  I know, I know, but..tis sort of like part of my legacy. I mean, every ancestor who receives the coin collection will be told of how my Grandfather started the collection and then MOI, and then my son and so on. You should see my Mom's house, it looks like a museum. 150 - 200 year old Grandfather/Grandmother clocks from Germany, original German paintings, 60 year old German piano, hummels, Royal Doulton's, crystal bells, silver jewelry boxes, lenox (blue and older color labels..gold use to be the most recent color) and sooooo much antique furniture. One of the German paintings that my Mom gave me, she took back because my West Point friend use to throw empty beer cans at the river in the painting..to see if he could make the river run.  |
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Post by TW on Jul 11, 2012 13:10:00 GMT -5
Something to think about.
The time will come when some family member will sell a valuable piece of art for a six-pack of beer, or offer all the heirlooms up in a garage sale, to "clear an attic."
The point I'm making is that if it isn't something family specific, you're just sitting on a lot of value that will eventually be turned into kindling by someone else, who could care less, about the heritage.
My belief that the best bumper sticker in the world is made for senior citizens, and says;
"I'm spending my kids inheritance!"
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Post by amoeba15 on Jul 11, 2012 13:41:56 GMT -5
"I'm spending my kids inheritance!"
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Post by happypacker on Jul 12, 2012 6:13:03 GMT -5
what is your address? i when just a mere young man kept my baseball cards in the attic when I went off to Nam, but my younger brother got a hold of them and used them in his bike spokes, i had a Mickey Mantle 1956 card, it was worth 5,000 last i looked.
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Post by amoeba15 on Jul 12, 2012 8:30:58 GMT -5
what is your address? i when just a mere young man kept my baseball cards in the attic when I went off to Nam, but my younger brother got a hold of them and used them in his bike spokes, i had a Mickey Mantle 1956 card, it was worth 5,000 last i looked. That is AWFUL, but you know kids are kids and often do not understand and appreciate things of value. I, too, remember putting cards in Bike spokes. In fact, we use to remove the bike spoke and place the powder from several matches in the head of the spoke, placed a rolled up small piece of aluminum, like a cannon ball, on top of the powder, light the outer rim of the bike spoke and voila..you have a cannon shooting its cannon ball. For fun we would play war games by securing several of these bike spokes on a flat piece of wood. Place several plastic soldiers on the flat piece of wood, place some fire under the bike spokes, thereby creating ships and sending the ships down a local creek, or crick as some southerners would say, and voila..instant war that would entertain us. We had to find someone of entertaining us since there were no video games. |
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Post by TW on Jul 12, 2012 10:04:37 GMT -5
We had fights with wild cucumbers. When you were hit by one, you felt it.
How good were we? Let's put it this way. Of our group, eight of us ended up either playing professional baseball, or at least getting a shot at it.
Four of these guys were pitchers.... it hurt when you got hit... I was a catcher, so I had a good arm too. ;D
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