Topic: Selling $12,000 40-45 year old baseball card collection! *pictures* (Read 3049 times)

Unfortunately at this time I prefer not to sell individual cards, as I'd like to keep the set "untouched".  I think the fact that it hasn't been disturbed in 40+ years will be important to the buyer, as nobody wants a set where all the good cards were already cherry picked out.

Thanks for the offer however!

I am still entertaining offers for the set, so if you are interested please message me. 

I'd be interested in buying a few cards, PM sent.

Very nice collection you have there. And, these can shoot up in price in later years, seems that not many are interested in them so I would suggest you hold on to them a little longer.

That's wayyyy too long of a investment.  By the time I retire i expect to be rich already.

You never know, they very well might.  Most folk won't keep theirs, and a lot of people in your generation might feel nostalgiac when they near retirement in several decades and want to collect them again. 

all that money wasted on paper...

i have a bunch of yugioh and pokemon cards sitting around from my youth too but they won't build any collector value

That is the "average value" per Beckett of all the cards added together.  That is what you can expect to make if you sell each card individually, which would be very time consuming.  I am not looking for that much, I would be happy with half, and would consider bids even less.  I apologize for the confusion.

Send me a PM if anyone is interested!

the price $12k right? wow amazing man. 

I was originally going to sell these in my local newspaper or on craigslist, and then buy bitcoins with the money.  Then I thought to myself "Wait a minute, one of the main features of bitcoin is that we don't NEED a fiat middleman!", so I decided to try and post them here first instead.

These were collected by my father when he was younger, and were stuck in a closet for nearly 30 years, untouched.  Roughly 15 years ago they were given to me to "sell when an opportunity presented itself", and were once again placed back in a closet.  They are all in very good condition, I spent roughly 3 days putting them in numerical order to see what I had, and I didn't notice even a single crease on all 1,200 cards.  They are literally in the condition you'd expect them to be if they were slightly handled before being stored away for over 4 decades.  As you can see from the pictures, the cards include many iconic players we all grew up hearing about. 

I wanted to hold onto them until the baby boomers who collected them as children started retiring in a few years, as the value would naturally increase as they tried to reminiscence on their childhood with their freetime and start collecting them again, but I want to try my luck with bitcoins.  But enough with the introduction, here is what we have:

Set includes roughly 1,200 cards. Almost half are 1969 Topps, about a quarter are 1970 Topps, and the remaining quarter 1971-74 Topps

1969 Topps - approx 550 cards *large portion of set*

Includes but certainly not limited to:
Mickey Mantle, Reggie Jackson rookie x 2, Ernie Banks x 2, Roberto Clemente x 2, Johnny Bench x 2, Pete Rose, Carl Yastrzemski, Clay Dalrymple, Tim McCarver with Maris, Bob Gibson, Donn Clendenon, Jim Hunter, Bobby Cox rookie, Steve Carlton, Tony Perez x 2, Sparky Lyle rookie, Harmon Killebrew, Al Kaline x4, Tom Seaver, Rod Carew, Earl Weaver rookie 2 x, Willie Stargell, Gil Hodges, Jim Palmer, Bob Flloyd rookie, Larry Burchart rookie, Rollie Fingers rookie, and Ferguson Jenkins. 

1969 Topps Deckle Edge - almost complete set

Includes players such as:
Willie Mays, Carl Yastrzemski, Jim Wynn, Pete Rose, Roberto Clemente, and Brooks Robinson

1970 Topps - approx 300 cards
Includes: Pete Rose, Bob Clemente, Cleon Jones, Reggie Jackson, Thurman Munson/Dave McDonald rookie, Steve Carlton, Brooks Robinson x2, Rod Carew, Lou Brock, Jim Palmer, Don Sutton, and Rico Petrocelli.

1971 Topps - approx 150 cards
Includes: Thurman Munson x 2, Steve Carlton, Pete Rose, Al Kaline, Johnny Bench, and Roberto Clemente.

1972 Topps, 1973 Topps, 1974 Topps - approx 50 cards each
Includes: Willie Mays x2, Carl Yastrzemski, Roberto Clemente, Johnny Bench, Tom Seaver, and Pete Rose.

If you would like to make an offer or have any questions, do not hesitate to post below or send me a private message.  As to how many bitcoins I'd like, I have an idea in my head, and it leaves plenty of profit for a buyer who wants to resell them, or hold onto them so they can continue to appreciate in value. 

Thanks again!

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