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Rare Cards Found Glued to a Chest, STILL Worth Thousands

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0:00 My Jordan card is $1,700. The exact same card. Scottie Pippen is $2. [laughter] >> I don't like this guy won the championship because he had him on the team and this guy's ████ worthless. >> So, you guys know how rare sometimes cards can be, like baseball cards, football cards, basketball cards. This cat paid $75 for like a chest. This is all glued to the bottom of a chest. >> And all these cards like from 1900s, >> early 1900s. >> This is before they had black folks in the league, huh? >> Oh, yeah. There's no color people in this. >> That's what I was That's why I immediately noticed >> that's when baseball was boring. [laughter] >> The only color on these cards is just like the background color. >> Wow. >> So, these are apparently worth thousands

0:51 of dollars. But even though they're glued to this trunk, >> even though they're glued >> because they're so rare. >> They're that rare. What freaking ████ glued it to the What kid did this? >> Who knows, right? It's a total kid move. >> Can they peel one at a time carefully and sell it off? >> So, apparently they can't. Like, that's the thing is they're they're glued, but it wasn't like done with like super glue or anything like that. >> Homer's glue. >> Yeah. Yeah. It's a s█████ glue. It's like like it like Egyptian paste, you know? >> So, so that's the the thing. This guy, his name is Tom Conrad. He he found this on Facebook Marketplace >> and he's like, >> "Okay, I bought it for 75 bucks for this stupid trunk from an estate sale." And then all these, you know, 122 baseball cards, uh, dating from 1909 to 1911 with legends like Sai Young, Christy Matthew, and John Mcra. Literally never heard of

1:42 any of those except for Sai Young. So like they're these are old school old school players. >> Pre-B Babe Ruth even probably. >> It's exactly that era. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, >> I heard they're bringing back that old school style of baseball. Like there's like a whole like league trying to bring back like the old uniforms, the small bats, >> like the old rules. [laughter] >> Yeah. The the segregated groups. >> They're like all these color people make it hard. >> The plantation style baseball game. >> That's crazy. >> Or the team is all people that were working on the plantation. Like >> is Paulyine running this? >> I know. >> Yeah. Yeah. Did they have a different bat back then, too? Or was it just >> It was small or weird. It was a shorter Yeah. Yeah. And then you know how their style they they had the socks up here and then the big poofy pants and then the ████ >> they had like the beret with the with the with the puffy thing on the top.

2:33 Yeah. >> It's like drinking beers in a dugout. [laughter] >> That's crazy. >> So yeah, even in poor condition, um like for example, the Sai Young card is still worth a couple grand cuz like these things get graded, right? So, even if you had like an eight, um, like that card could be worth over 100 grand. >> Jeez. >> Have you guys had anything like valuable that you sold like that? >> Not sold, but I have it still. >> What did you get? >> I have a couple of Jordan cards I think that are worth over a thousand. >> Oh, I forgot if they're rookies or not. >> Wow. >> Um, I just had it since I was a kid. And then so like I kept it in a binder and then when Taiga got into basketball cards, I was Oh, I have some. And so I would bring it out with them and then we started looking up how some how much some of them were. And it's crazy because it'll be the same year. My Jordan card is $1,700.

3:23 The exact same card. Scottie Pippen is $2. >> Dang. >> And I'm like, this guy won the championship because he had him on the team. And this guy's ████ worthless. >> Guy's always taking L's, dude. In every way, >> dude. I'm like, >> the stock went down a little bit. Jordan's kid is pounding on on Scotty's ex-wife. >> When that news broke, it went to $2. It was probably $3 before. $350. >> They don't want to buy a cut card. >> No, no one wants cut card. >> But you have a couple of cards that are like over a,000 bucks. >> That's tight. >> Poor Scotty. Bro, >> what's your plan with them? Do you have a plan? >> Um, I'm lazy. So, that's the big problem cuz you I think what you're supposed to do, you want to take every card and go get them certified. And then once they're certified, you put them in that like plastic case. And then now I think that makes it more like legit and you can sell it anywhere because everyone recognizes the certification. But I don't want to do that with all my

4:14 cards. So I'm hoping there's like a service that I can go here's my whole binder. You get them all certified. I'll pay you to do it. But then the scary part about that is what if they go yoinkers? Yinkers. >> Yeah. You got to catalog all of it. >> So I'm like ████ maybe I should just wait another like I don't know 20 years and then see what happens. Or if you or if you take TA to one of those card shows, they have graders there sometimes. >> Really? Like the the spot of those some of those card shows will have graders. Yeah. Cuz I don't like the idea of mailing your cards out either to get it. Just feels weird. Yeah. >> There's hella uh card collectible shops in Vegas though. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> More than LA cuz we went to go visit a couple of them and then there's ones where they have like really expensive cards in the case and it's like one of those stores where everyone's passionate about it. They're not just doing it because it's like a a job. Like it's it's really cool. >> So, a buddy of mine uh you know, he's my

5:04 neighbor. He's a real estate guy, right? And he was just at uh at this house where they were like cleaning it up and getting it ready to like do a flip on it, right? And he finds he opens his closet up and he sees all these old comic books and all these old like baseball cards and ████ like that. And so he's like, "Huh, I wonder what I wonder if any of these are worth anything." So then uh he he comes home and he's like he's like sending me pictures of this stuff and me and my buddy Chady's sending us both pictures of stuff. He's like he's like, "Holy ████ I think I just found like a Ken Griffy Jr. like like rookie card or whatever." >> Wow. >> And he's like, "I think this is worth like thousands and thousands of dollars." So I immediately look it up on eBay and the card's worth like 80 bucks. [laughter] I think I could even get it for 20 bucks [laughter] cuz apparently he he had it was the wrong brand. So whoever this was didn't just leave it in the house cuz like hey

5:54 it's your lucky day like they're like this stuff is not worth it to sell like what Bart's saying. >> But even in the card world even 80 bucks is a lot cuz the typical card's like 10 cents. >> No totally. >> But going from like I think this is worth like like a car to like Yeah. >> Sucks for eBay too cuz like when I looked up my Kobe rookies I'm like oh my god thousands of dollars. But then you you have to look up what was the highest it actually sold at? >> Always >> ████ 80 bucks. [laughter] >> You know what I mean? >> Did you find your Jordans like in a packet or did you like always have them as a kid and you just kept it? >> I bought them in like a wrapper and then I would uh I just had, you know, those sheets. >> You sleeved them? >> I sleeved them. I put them in the sleeves. I just kept all of them like that way. >> Since a kid? >> Since I was a kid. Yeah. >> And then you check back recently and it's like, "Oh ████ damn. That's crazy." >> That's like everyone's dream with their Pokemon cards. Everyone's like, "S███, I I wish I didn't ████ throw that ████

6:44 away." >> Yeah. Well, like when I when I when my parents got divorced and I went to go live with my dad for a little bit, I knew my mom's going to throw that ████ away. So, I was like, "F███ you, ████ I'm taking that ████ with me." >> You knew she was going to throw away your baseball? >> She always throws my ████ away. So, I was like, I ain't trusting this ████ >> Replaces them with Buddha cards. [laughter] >> Yeah. >> The critical mistake of I had like a binder of all rookies and I was proud that it was all rookie cards. So, I had like Sean Camp rookie like basketball. >> Yeah. But then I made the mistake of taking it to school and showing it to everybody. >> And then they stole it from you. >> Yeah. One one day it got stolen from me from my backpack and I am just I was just stupid. Like don't ever do that. >> Oh my god. >> I had I had I even I don't think I had a Jordan rookie, but I had like a Pippen rookie which I thought was cool at the time. It wasn't. I found out later. >> A major thing to steal kidto kid by the way. >> Yeah. >> That's not a normal like jacking.

7:34 >> That's that's a really big thing. You couldn't have told the the principal wouldn't have like >> lined everyone up and been like, "Who ████ has it?" >> Nah, not in my school. >> Damn, dude. That's major. >> It was like almost like, "All right, that's just how it goes." >> That's probably like >> That's probably the highest net worth theft that's happened in that school since. >> Bro, I don't even know cuz at the time it wasn't like hard to get Sean Kemp rookie cards cuz it was like the early 90s. >> Yeah. >> So, but I was just proud that I got it all together in one spot. >> Also, at that moment, you don't know how legendary they are. >> Exactly. later and you're like, "Oh ████ that Sean Kempo was sick." >> Yeah. And there's not even sup Seattle super songs anymore. Like all that >> sad, dude. I feel like in Christian school they would have no one would have been able to leave until someone up. Yeah. Yeah. Hell yeah. That's a bad bad That's a sin, brother. >> Dude, not shout out Fairfax County Public Schools, dude. >> Also got like 10 to 15 kids per class,

8:25 >> so it's easier to lock it down. >> That's true. >> 40 kids like ████ >> Yeah, that's true. >> Yeah, it was a bummer. I'm sure that all would have been worth some cuz I had them all sleeped. I I I was the I was the kid who was taking them out and putting them in the sleeves immediately. I barely even touched I've touched the corners. >> Wow. >> Oh, so you would never rearrange them. Remember how that would happen? You just want to rearrange your cards. Sometimes >> I would organize them like by team. So it's like all Bulls, all Pacers, all Sonics, like that kind of thing. There's really only one Sonic game. >> T has his own cards now, which is cool cuz uh he got into cards for a bit. So like um like I would give him like money if he like uh did well in a basketball game or whatever. first he was like every shot would be like a dollar and he would try to like make as many shots as possible and after the game if he made like let's say 12 bucks then he would go and buy buy a pack. Yeah. And then we found this vintage place called uh Antique Valley Mall down here

9:16 >> and cuz he likes specifically like our era basketball. So So he has like all the like his coaches will pass out cards of this era but then he didn't like them. He wanted like Jordans or like Kobe Bryant like that era. Magic Johnson Shaquille O'Neal. Is that like there are no vegan dogs? It's just the parents. >> What's no vegan dog? >> You know, like there's no [clears throat] such thing as a vegan dog, but >> Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, he No, he he really likes >> dogs get sick. >> You're like, "We don't like this era of basketball, actually." [laughter] >> No, no, he just likes it. I don't know why. >> Really? >> The funny thing is I know exactly the the the stores he's talking about and all I could picture is the ████ Playboy, the stack of Playboys right next to those cars. >> Oh, yeah. Yeah. >> Yeah. [laughter] And then he's probably like, "Oo, I like basketball cards." But he's looking at the Playboys. >> No, he thinks girls are gross. >> Oh, that's right. He's not there yet.

10:07 Huh. >> He likes our era of girls. I heard >> he loves P Carmen Electra. [laughter] >> He doesn't like the new era of girls. I heard >> our era. >> He thinks they're gross.

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