Featured Sold Thread

Discussion in 'Antique Discussion' started by daveydempsey, Oct 16, 2023.

  1. Bookahtoo

    Bookahtoo Moderator Moderator

    This find wasn't mine, but DS#2, who I've talked about quite a bit, the other collector in the family.
    He found a shoe box full of about 800 sports cards last weekend at a garage sale. He paid $23 for it. All of the cards were late 1960s American football or baseball cards in excellent condition. He recognized some big names, but since he doesn't collect sports cards he decided to put them up on Facebook Marketplace.
    He posted these photos and asked for offers.

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    He immediately got offers of $100 - $200. Then someone offered $1,500. DS#2 sent the person his phone # and asked him to call. They chatted for a few minutes. The person specifically collects cards from this era. The buyer cashapped the money, DS#2 transferred it to his bank, withdrew the money, and mailed the cards this AM.
    A great score for him!
     
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  2. pearlsnblume

    pearlsnblume Well-Known Member

    wowie Book. that is some score.
     
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  3. Lark

    Lark Well-Known Member

    I am just a year older and no medications and physically fit. Yard work and the stairs in this old house keep me in shape. I do most of my ebay and etsy selling during the winter.
     
  4. Lark

    Lark Well-Known Member

    I like the idea of a sold thread.
     
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  5. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    Whomever that kid was who collected those cards....G-d bless him !;)

    I would have liked to have found those......just to play with them !!:happy::happy::happy:

    and just look at the condition !!!!!!!!

    mint in BOX !! :hilarious::hilarious:
     
  6. Josh

    Josh Well-Known Member

    I like this idea for a thread. Just a few of my nicer sales this year, somehow i had less than $50 total invested in these.

    Dark Horse Small Troll Doll $200

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    1950's Civil Air Transport (CAT) passenger package, $300

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    104 Pc. C Hugo Pott Flatware Set, $1500

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    1937 Think & grow Rich 1st edition, $500

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  7. kentworld

    kentworld Well-Known Member

    @komokwa Have you seen the TV show, Salvage Kings? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11420972/ DH and I watch it whenever we see it on the cable guide. Ted's a hoot and he gets some big dollars for something I would pay maybe $5 for, LOL! Hope there are more episodes to come.
     
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  8. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    Sorry, nope, never seen it !

    I used to watch AP, & pawn stars......but when the controversy got too much...I bailed.

    I see Auction hunters from time to time....for a laugh, and still catch the Roadshow....when I can.
     
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  9. pearlsnblume

    pearlsnblume Well-Known Member

    That is a cute troll doll. I have 2 that I got a yard sale. One is Frankenstein and the other is a wish troll.
     
  10. J Dagger

    J Dagger Well-Known Member

    Most, if not all of the Roadshows are on YouTube now. I put them on in background when I’m working often recently. I wasn’t even looking for them. They just popped up for me based on the algorithm. I don’t watch broadcast tv anymore so I hadn’t seen American RS in many years. They have a British roadshow channel on the Pluto app I would watch sometimes. It’s nice when they do the price updates so you can see how the markers have changed.
     
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  11. J Dagger

    J Dagger Well-Known Member

    If I didn’t love all the other stuff so much I’d sell nothing but ephemera. Great market for it, it can be had cheap in many instances, easy to store, easy to ship, easy to photograph, which means easy to list. It’s win, win, win, win… just delicate and sometimes smelly but great market to get into. I just get bored easily and can’t list too much of it. I have thousands and thousands of decent postcards but can’t seem to list more than 5 at a time.

    Edit: There is nothing better than making hundreds or thousands of dollars on a single piece of paper or so. I’ve done very well on historical documents. Anything related to civil war era south in particular. It amazing the niche collectors for just random vintage paper too. I grab almost anything I find and pay peanuts for most of it.
     
  12. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

    I agree. Always interested when new members post recently inherited furniture inquiring about value. And I want to scream "Look in the drawers!" and "Don't throw anything out!" because ephemera (e.g. "old papers") so likely to get overlooked and can have surprising value.

    Debora
     
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  13. moreotherstuff

    moreotherstuff Izorizent

    Perfect for the spokes of your bicycle!
     
  14. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member


    DINGDINGDING! I bet the buyer takes out what he wants and if he resells the rest, gets a decent chunk of his money back. Those old cards are like coining money.
     
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  15. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    I bought a leaflet about gas mantles in a charity shop for a quid, once. Tracked down a descendant of the author and emailed him. Would I take sixty five quid? Too right.

    Mind you, I also buy ephemera linked to my family and to my local area.
     
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  16. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    Sometimes the oddballs are worth the most money.
     
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  17. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    I did that with my extra Batman cards !!!

    When I was a lad, we had a burst water pipe in the basement.....
    mom... threw out all my trading cards..... 100's....upon 100's..... and half my comic collection.:arghh::arghh:
     
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  18. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    Grandma threw out my dad's cards when he went into the army...in 1954....including a Mickey Mantle rookie.
     
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  19. J Dagger

    J Dagger Well-Known Member

    Mom and grand mom threw out every kids cards from the time they were first made until the 80’s. Which is why 80’ and 90’s cards are generally worth very little. That’s when people started seriously collecting them and they starting printing untold millions of them. Of course that’s the era all my cards are from. Many thousands collecting dust in my parents basement, waiting for the flood that reaches that shelf. My father too speaks of Mickey Mantles, bike spokes, and mom tossing.
     
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  20. J Dagger

    J Dagger Well-Known Member

    Often times!
     
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