Family Finds Several Mint Condition Baseball Set In Attic

This undated photo provided by heritage auctions of dallas shows some of the more than 700 well preserved 1910 baseball cards found in the attic of a house in defiance ohio.

Family finds several mint condition baseball set in attic. These cards were extremely old but they were in mint condition. Between the box of 1948 bowman baseball worth 500 000 on its own. An ohio family rummaging through the attic of a long deceased grandfather stumbled across a century old collection of baseball cards. If you want to find some fast cash in your house look no further than your kitchen.

Defiance ohio ap karl kissner picked up a soot covered cardboard box that had been under a wooden dollhouse in his grandfather s attic. The packs were from the mid 1900s. Family finds baseball card collection that may fetch 3 million. The total find may be worth over 1 million.

Hidden away in this old attic was a mint condition card from the golden years of baseball. Rosen paid the man 90 000 according to long time collector marshall fogel who wrote about it on a hobby message board several years ago. It contained 19 unopened packs from the company s first year. Rosen put the higher grade 1952 topps mantle cards up for sale at 3500 but found few buyers.

After he was done looking through the attic it was finally time to open up the box that really had him interested he was shocked when he looked inside and saw rows of baseball cards. These weren t the kind you d want to stick in the spokes of your bicycle though. But among the hundreds of baseball cards one name stood out more than the rest. Taking a look inside he saw hundreds of baseball cards bundled with twine.

For a century a box. The appraised value of the bowman set alone is a half million dollars. One of the greatest collections of unopened baseball football and basketball card packs was recently found in an aunt s attic. Today prices have dramatically increased on things like pyrex which can go for well over 100 for desirable pieces or good shape nesting bowls says troy ford owner and curator of newburgh vintage emporium in newburgh new york.

The most valuable item was a box of 1948 bowman baseball cards. They were smaller than the ones he was used to seeing. The 700 cards bundled in twine but in surprisingly mint.