Oldest Baseball Card Found

[theantiquetiger]

This is cool:

Woman-finds-139-year-old-baseball-card-in-box

[kingdom warrior]

I read about this today......Amazing she had it on Ebay a starting bid of ten bucks!!

[theantiquetiger]

I am glad she pulled it and found out before selling it. I am glad it is for some one like this.

[kingdom warrior]

I thought the same thing.......The buyers kept asking about it and she pulled it. Good for her. Now she'll Get the true Value of it when she gets it auctioned off. Hopefully The MLB will get it so it could be displayed in Cooperstown.

[theantiquetiger]

Its says she had the Buy It Now set at $10!!!!

[wolfie]

If you had seen it would you have taken a chance and purchased it for the sake of $10. If just one of those people sending questions had pressed the button instead.

[txteach]

I sold a baseball card for $72,000 to a movie star. Unfortunately I can't go into detail ( I signed an agreement not to reveal the buyer) but the card was a MINT 1952 Mantle rookie. The "star" even came to my house and picked up the card. That was about 6years ago. The sale paid for most of my house. I originally bought a pack of 1952 topps cards in 1990 for quite a bit in a "collectables" auction in Colorado. My wife was not happy that I blew our savings but the back showed the rookie card and I knew I had something special. My wife likes the investment now.

[Adam West]

Starting bid was $10...I think if it was a BIN, someone would have pulled the trigger fast on it.

Here is an interesting question. If she did have a BIN for $10 and someone hit the BIN...she decides not to honor the bid, would the buyer be able to take her to court and win?

In other words, did she enter a legally binding contract that would hold up in court? You really don't hear of anyone taking anyone to court over not honoring an Ebay buy but for this kind of money, someone would probably do itl

Either way, it is a great find and still incredible that people still run across this stuff. One thing that is great about some antique stores is that they will have things sitting there for years and will not bother updating prices or anything so you can literally look in a corner and find something that has been sitting there for years that maybe wasn't worth much years ago but is highly collectible today.

How this particular baseball card got in there is a mystery but it also goes to show that antique dealers can't be experts in everything.

[Adam West]

I sold a baseball card for $72,000 to a movie star. Unfortunately I can't go into detail ( I signed an agreement not to reveal the buyer) but the card was a MINT 1952 Mantle rookie. The "star" even came to my house and picked up the card. That was about 6years ago. The sale paid for most of my house. I originally bought a pack of 1952 topps cards in 1990 for quite a bit in a "collectables" auction in Colorado. My wife was not happy that I blew our savings but the back showed the rookie card and I knew I had something special. My wife likes the investment now.

I'm not that familiar with baseball cards but would just the mere fact that the rookie card was on the back indicate that the card was in the pack or were you just taking a big gamble?

[megocrazy]

I sold a baseball card for $72,000 to a movie star. Unfortunately I can't go into detail ( I signed an agreement not to reveal the buyer) but the card was a MINT 1952 Mantle rookie. The "star" even came to my house and picked up the card. That was about 6years ago. The sale paid for most of my house. I originally bought a pack of 1952 topps cards in 1990 for quite a bit in a "collectables" auction in Colorado. My wife was not happy that I blew our savings but the back showed the rookie card and I knew I had something special. My wife likes the investment now.

His initials weren't CS by any chance were they?

[Zemo]

Starting bid was $10...I think if it was a BIN, someone would have pulled the trigger fast on it.

Here is an interesting question. If she did have a BIN for $10 and someone hit the BIN...she decides not to honor the bid, would the buyer be able to take her to court and win?

In other words, did she enter a legally binding contract that would hold up in court? You really don't hear of anyone taking anyone to court over not honoring an Ebay buy but for this kind of money, someone would probably do itl

Either way, it is a great find and still incredible that people still run across this stuff. One thing that is great about some antique stores is that they will have things sitting there for years and will not bother updating prices or anything so you can literally look in a corner and find something that has been sitting there for years that maybe wasn't worth much years ago but is highly collectible today.

How this particular baseball card got in there is a mystery but it also goes to show that antique dealers can't be experts in everything.

The buyer would most likely prevail.

[SlipperyLilSuckers]

That's a good story with a happy ending...I am glad she realised something was up.

[toys2cool]

wow good for her

[megoat]

I've been to their shop many times!

[raider5gt]

Fair play to the lady,what a lucky find.