Collector gets $50K offer for 1955 Mantle Bowman card found in pack

So they are selling each spot for each card in the deck for $500/?

And he knew ahead of time that he was getting whichever card was in the #2 spot?

It's bananas to me that these packs of cards remained unopened even after the baseball collector craze of the late 80's and early 90's. They must be finding these things in dead peoples' attics and storage units.

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So they are selling each spot for each card in the deck for $500/?

And he knew ahead of time that he was getting whichever card was in the #2 spot?

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That's how I understood it, though the writing on that article is atrocious.

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It's bananas to me that these packs of cards remained unopened even after the baseball collector craze of the late 80's and early 90's. They must be finding these things in dead peoples' attics and storage units.

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Yep.

The 1986 find was the GOAT by far.

Unopened case of 1952 Topps found in a truck drivers attic. About 50 of the Micky Mantle rookie cards were in those boxes.

3 Gem mint 10 1952 Mantles were pulled from that case.

The most expensive baseball card ever sold was a Honus Wagner for $3.12M in 2016.

Those 3 gem mint Mantles pulled from the case in that guys attic (along with 5,500 other 1952 topps) are estimated to be worth over $10 million. Each.

For just 1 card, $10M should any of the 3 current owners decide to make one of them available. The majority of all 1952 topps baseball cards graded as gem mint 10 came from that single box in ole baws attic.