Tobbaco baseball card

[ARC]

I once visited a sporst memorabilia shop full of cards and the young girl working there said she would be glad to help me find something but knew nothing about sports, as she was just manning the store for her uncle who was running errands. So I told her I was looking for a Wagner card but it had to be an original....and I was ready to buy today. She wrote it down for her uncle and I said I would check back in later in the week....I can imagine his laugh when she gave him the message...I never did go back.

lol.

 

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[ARC]

Well when this guy... who was once a legal advisor for a Prez showed me it... this was arrgggg over 15 years ago... I had no idea what he had handed me...

He could have just handed me a stick of juicy fruit gum for all I knew...

Then he turns and says... "you know what that little piece of paper is worth" ?

"a million dollars".

I was like "yeah right for this".

He just was staring at me to see my reaction I think... and when he never blinked... I got the feeling he wasn't bull crapping...

which induced a simple reply from me of...

"No sh!t". heh

 

[releventchair]

Well when this guy... who was once a legal advisor for a Prez showed me it... this was arrgggg over 15 years ago... I had no idea what he had handed me...

He could have just handed me a stick of juicy fruit gum for all I knew...

Then he turns and says... "you know what that little piece of paper is worth" ?

"a million dollars".

I was like "yeah right for this".

He just was staring at me to see my reaction I think... and when he never blinked... I got the feeling he wasn't bull crapping...

which induced a simple reply from me of...

"No sh!t". heh

When a friend shows something like that to me and it lands in my hands , I thank him for remembering my birthday; and then try to sidle away.
To date , no luck getting far.... (But have held a couple nice items.)

 

[Mackaydon]

"Baseball-card collecting really ought to be extinct. It’s an analog hobby in a digital world, an expression of fandom in a sport whose attendance is in slow decline and whose cultural relevance is in free fall." Yet, bringing 'scarcity' to the market and bringing the hobby into the digital age has revived the hobby.
I only wish that stamp collecting would be following the same path of recovery.
Don...
Source (and a good article): https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/11/how-baseball-cards-got-weird/598345/

 

[ARC]

"Baseball-card collecting really ought to be extinct. It’s an analog hobby in a digital world, an expression of fandom in a sport whose attendance is in slow decline and whose cultural relevance is in free fall." Yet, bringing 'scarcity' to the market and bringing the hobby into the digital age has revived the hobby.
I only wish that stamp collecting would be following the same path of recovery.
Don...
Source (and a good article): https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/11/how-baseball-cards-got-weird/598345/

Don... this was just posted.

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/stamp-collecting/640507-anything-value.html

 

[villagenut]

I used to collect stamps when I was a youngster, and I collected baseball cards.......used to

 

[Mackaydon]

AARC,
As a sample of value......
Franklin facing left: 35 cents
The other Franklins: 15 cents
The $1.00 Surrender at Burgoyne stamp: 50 cents
The Jamestown Expo: $3.00.
Don.....
PS: The old looking $1 stamp is actually from 1994
The CHE Cuban stamp can be had for 75 cents online

 

[kwelliott14]

There were 2 cards but I had given one to my brother back then I asked him to send me some pictures. The willy mays I won

 

[WaterScoop]

Keep in mind that the $175 value also needs to take into consideration the $14-17 grading


Sweet card never the less. I’m sure it will increase in value after you give it to your son.

Cheers