We are extremely proud to announce our newest acquisition, the "Fairy Godmother T206 Collection", a recent find from the Boston area. This collection of cards consists of over 350 different T206 baseball cards, 60 of which are Hall of Famers, including the ultra-rare Eddie Plank card! This collection is also highlighted by Ty Cobb, Cy Young, and Christy Mathewson (three examples of each). These cards have taken an incredible journey over the last century, as they were passed down from the original owner to his sister, down to her godson,
When it comes to hundred-year-old baseball cards, even the most worn, torn, and "well-loved" examples can command solid value. At the end of April, a gentleman named Michael from Illinois contacted us through our website looking to sell a collection of about 100 T205 and T206 tobacco cards from 1909 to 1911. The Acquisition Years ago, Michael worked for The Sporting News, a sports website and former print magazine founded way back in 1886. The publication became so well known for covering baseball that it received the distinction, "The Bible of Baseball." Back
You’ve probably heard about this by now, but there was an incredible baseball card find a few weeks ago in South Carolina. A family was cleaning out their great grandfather’s house and found seven Ty Cobb T206 baseball cards at the bottom of a paper bag. What makes this group of Ty Cobb T206 cards so incredible is that all seven cards featured an extremely rare “Ty Cobb Tobacco” advertising back. So rare, in fact, that before the Lucky 7 Find, there were only 14 examples of this card front/back
This is one of those rare instances where the story behind the collection is as interesting as the collection itself. Begun decades ago, a father and son team shared their passion for all things Boston Red Sox and put forth a Herculean effort to collect all of the Red Sox cards and assorted issues related to the Red Sox. The collection is a veritable type collection that represents examples of almost everything that was issued featuring a Red Sox player and includes many complete team sets of the Red Sox once the team reached issues from the 1940's until the
My mom threw out my cards more than 35 years ago. To this day, I still find it hard to think about it without a return of that uneasy feeling that I experienced when I first saw my empty closet. I really don't like to think of how many Mantle, Koufax, Clemente cards that I collected and older ones that were given to me are gone forever, decomposed in a landfill somewhere in the swamps of Jersey. But enough of my tale of woe as this is a story of a