Another estate sale, part 1

 My card partner Pat is a bloodhound.  He scours Facebook, Craigslist, our local auctions and anywhere

else that lists sports cards for sale.  He will travel over an hour if there is a remote chance to find cards.

Sometimes the results are no cards but he still finds sports related memorabilia, sometime only junk era 

cards but once in a while there is a pot of gold at the end of his chase.   This is the 2nd estate sale that  

has resulted in gold in the last 3 months.  This was a garage/estate sale that said sports stuff.  He got 

there and found a couple of sports items.  Pat always asks if there are any cards.  This mom says her 

kids have a few totes of cards for sale.   There are 3 totes full of cards just thrown in willy nilly.

This is after i've spent a day sorting to get the bottom of one tote.

Part 1 will be the vintage and unusual cards

Each tote had about 10,000 cards.  As I started sorting there was a mix of junk cards with some more recent sprinkled in.  After I pulled a few update rookie cards I realized that a majority of the recent cards were from update sets.  A lot of the cards had some damage due to how they were just thrown into the tote.  But overall, it was still the most fun i've ever had exploring a "pot of gold".

Out of the 30,000 cards there were less than 25 vintage cards mostly commons

Quite a few autos

Walmart cereal cards

Jersey and bat cards.   It looks like cork and feels like cork, Hmmm.

Part 2 preview, my favorite oddballs

Genius at work

 Genius, brilliant, fun, appreciated.   All these describe Gavin's latest creation.  My return package for

the Kryptonite and accompanying cards was this latest creation from Gavin, Baseball Card Breakdown,

was this Acuna Jr. card.

This view doesn't give you the impact that this side view shows 

I might have a problem storing in my Bubble Binder

I will find a solution and let you see it in a future post.

This was also my first 1/1

However, there was another estate sale recently that lead to another 1/1, as well as,

other goodies which will be explained in my next couple of posts.

Pins

 I haven't gone out of my way to collect pins but i've managed to accumulate some interesting

pins over the years.   I'm sorry about the clarity of some of these pictures.

I have a few more from this year 

A few All Star Games

There are 6 pins that make up this puzzle

With the stats on the back of this pin it's almost a "Pin Card"

A rookie card pin

A Final Four, Rose Bowl and Super Bowl

My team is not doing so well

 

 

New Bubbles and more Estate Sale cards

 I've been enjoying the Florida sun and not posted in awhile.  Here are some new Bubbles and more finds from my recent Estate Sale purchase.

The first two bubbles are from my first unopened packs of Japanese cards.

These next two bubbles are more recent

An unusual Drew Brees Rookie

A new Gehrig for my collection

The Autos were all in the same display as the Williams auto in my last post

Estate Sale Bonanza

 My friend Pat's buddy called him about a guy that wanted to sell his sports collection.  We went over on a sunday evening to the house and met a 95 year old gentleman who has been collecting for awhile.  

Most of his collection was magazines and memorabilia but we struck a deal to take it all and unearthed some gems when we sorted through the mass of items.

Here are a few of the treasures we found.

This is a postcard from Johnny Bench's restaurant in Cincinnati.  It's now closed but I did get a chance to eat there a few times.

Quite a few autographs, but this is my favorite.

Among all the paper were ballots from all the All Star games.  This is from the 1970 game

Over a hundred decks of old playing cards

Art was a big Reds fan that included this auto of Sam Jethroe

This is one of the oldest cards, 1947 Exhibit

Lots of unusual cards

1975 TCMA

Fro-joy Ice cream TCMA reprint

Baseball Legends

Multi Sport Crossover

 Lately it seems like i've been able to go thru more multi-sports and non-sports cards.   I'm always on the lookout for any card that is a non standard pose.   However, I'm starting with one of the the "Bubble Gum Baseball" cards that Gavin, baseballcardbreakdown, sent me.

I have received customs from several other artists, but Gavin's is the best by a large margin.

Could this be the Tour De Green Bay?

He's got the pads to step right in.

That puck might hurt if he misses.

Some nights goalies might think the puck looks like the size of a basketball.

Looks what came in from the Bay, "Aquaman".

Crossfit potential contestant?

Flyers new mascot.

This is a Topps 1956 card from a plane series.

I learn something new all the time from looking at Cards.