this will hands down change the early sports card market for sure, incredible....

http://www.komonews.com/news/national/Bo...-161939295.html

Ryan Leif aint worth crap...

those cards will likely never hit Ebay, the condition of them makes them way too good for it...

one of those Cobbs alone in that condition has the potential to bring 15-20k, there have never been grade 9s ever seen, nor gone up for sale and he has 16 grade 9s...

although the E98 set isnt the fabled T206 set, the Wagner in a grade 10, who knows... 2s and 3s go for 1500-2+k...a 10, could end up being 50k...

the E98 set was an "anonymous" set, noone truely knows who made it, but only that it was distributed with candy, possibly Cracker Jack type candy..

the 1909 T206 set, was distributed by American Tobacco, and was given out with packs of Ciggarettes, the Honus Wagner card, is extremely rare, as he either 1 didnt want to be associated with kids buying tobacco to get the card, or 2, wanted more money from them, which they wouldnt give him... noone really knows, but in 1948 i think it was, it shows him on another card (i think it was Topps) with a big mouthfull of chew, so it likely could have been he didnt want kids buying ciggarettes, but noone really knows... the best grade of his card sold in 2008 for 2.8 million dollars, making it the most expensive baseball card ever sold...

grading for cards goes from 1 (poor) to 10 (pristine), to get a 9 or 10 in a card from that year, is impossible (except now), it would be like taking a card out of a fresh opened pack, and putting it into a screw down case, never touching it with human skin, oils, ect... even nowadays, with brand new packs opened, its very very rare to get a 10, there are strict guidelines that they follow when grading cards... even getting a 9 in that year is impossible, until now, as the Ty Cobb from that set, previous best grade was a 7.... which means it is Near Mint, as in this card right here:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/SUPERB-1909-T206...=item20c221f0b2

to find 16 grade 9 cards is insanity, and will score this guy some serious money on them alone...

I've never run across anyone who knows so much about so little...

redhook our resident pisca-pedia...

RH, have you looked in your attic ?

no need to, i know where my stuff is at... however, my dad has always told me that he had stacks and stacks of cards, tons of Mantles, Dimagio, Gherig, ect and my grandmother took them and hid them from him when he was younger out of punnishment or something... he believed they are possibly at the Cabin somewhere, we havent looked... as of now...

a 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle Rookie card in grades 7 have sold for 50-75k numerous times... the highest one ever, was 250k i believe, but its the best one in existance... 5s are round 20k, and 6s are 20-30k, they may have increased in price tho over the years...

i recently sold some Jabbars, Jerry Wests, Chamberlians, Bill Waltons, Namaths, Bob Grieses, Unitas, Alzado, Gale Sayers, and Jim Brown rookies and got quite a bit of money for them...

also sold a complete Ted Williams set from 61, and a 69 Topps Deckle Edge set that was in VG condition for decent money as well... a grade 9 Pete Rose is a 2500 dollar card itself...

how come you're not rich?

give it time... and what consitutes "rich", what is "rich"?

my girlfriend has an autographed Babe Ruth baseball that was her grandfathers... its locked up in a safe tho, and aint comin out...

That is rich.

nah, thats only about 10-15k... far from "rich"...

My point exactly