Father-in-Law's Fleer Many collections that Just Collect is contacted about are cards passed down from family members or family friends. Recently, we received a call from a woman from the Midwest that had been entrusted by her brother to liquidate the balance of a collection that the brother's late father-in-law had built. When the father-in-law became ill, he began selling off a very large sports card collection that he had assembled. Prior to his passing, he managed to sell everything except
It Was a Different Time Would you put your teenage son or daughter on the train to go to another city? Today, the answer from most parents would be, Absolutely not!" But it was not uncommon decades ago for parents to allow their children to travel to see relatives. Whether via ground (typically Greyhound Bus), through the air (for transcontinental travel) or by rail (usually Amtrak), moms and dads would pack their little ones with a suitcase and a few dollars and
About a month ago, we had a collector reach to us, asking to get an appraisal on his collection. He was a little unsure if he actually wanted to sell, as he was unaware if the current value of his collection outweighed his emotional attachment to the cards - something we run into all the time. He had spent the latter part of his childhood assembling this fantastic group of baseball and basketball partial-sets, while also collecting the game's brightest stars from each era. The collection included runs from the late 1960's to the late 1970's
There are times when Lady Luck smiles on you. That’s exactly what occurred when a card collector from the Lone Star State offered his group of football and basketball cards to us recently. The group is loaded with Hall of Fame members of both the Pro Football Hall of and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame – and there aren’t many HOFers missing from this purchase. This collection of about 300 or so cards spans from the mid-1930’s all the way through the late