Michigan family discovers rarest football card collection in history

[Old Fart]

A Michigan family was cleaning out an old farmhouse and accidentally stumbled across a long-sought after collection of football cards worth thousands of dollars and considered perhaps the rarest such collection in history. The set is highlighted by an "anonymous" card of former Harvard football player John Dunlop, which was first issued in 1894. The Dunlop card alone is reportedly worth $10,000, according to Lou Brown, president of Legends Sports and Games. "If it was in the right condition, it could be worth up to $60,000," Brown told Yahoo! News in a phone interview.
"We get a lot of calls from a lot of people saying they've got something, and usually it's not what you expect," Brown tells local affiliate Fox11. But Brown says this set is something different entierly. "It's the 'Holy Grail' of football cards," he tells Fox11.
 
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[Conan The Librarian]

That's a cool story. I wish them the best.

[guzzijohn]

It appears to be happening with comic books too.



 
 
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Submitted by Zach Lisabeth on Feb 22, 2012
 Time to bust open those piggy banks, nerds.
Michael Rorrer of Oxnard, California is set to turn a forgotten family collection of rare comic books into a mountain of cold, hard cash.
The collection dates back to an era known to comic enthusiasts as the "Golden Age" of comic books. Rorrer will auction 44 of the top 100 issues from this time period in a New York City auction house on Wednesday.
Experts project that Rorrer stands to net as much as $2 million in bids for the collection. The most valuable issues in the lot are "Action Comics" number one, wherein Superman made his debut and "Detective Comics" number 27, the first appearance of another iconic DC hero, Batman.
Rorrer himself did not amass the collection. He says he stumbled upon the horde of valuable geekdom relics in a basement while cleaning out his great uncle's home, according to Yahoo! News.