MASSIVE storage shed find of millions of sports cards, with many vintage & valuable + sealed wax!
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- čas přidán 6. 04. 2023
- Rob DuBrey, of Washington, found a massive hoard of millions of sports cards in a storage shed. Check out the story of the valuable, the vintage, and the sealed wax! Baseball, football, hockey, basketball cards. Including Michael Jordan rookies!
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What's your favorite item from this find?
I can't decide if its the Star Jordans or theose boxes of 88-89 Fleer basketball.
I would say the 69 Football and the 51 Topps Red Backs. Amazing find indeed. The safe deposit box probably has a 52 Mantle but that's just a guess
@@chrisc4264 that would be amazing
My favorite item from the find would be the Jordan rookies. Love the story, hope one day to find a holy grail like that. I would have open every box and pack. Lol. Happy Easter Mike!!!
@@manimals3329 you too!
Hard to say what I liked the most, All are great finds, Love the 87 Fleer Basketball set, but the 81 Topps Montana are great
Sir, I work with Vets, that battle PTSD. I’ve introduced them to the hobby, because hobbies are great for them. We get together, when I can get cards for them, and watch your videos! Love them! Thank you for all you do for the hobby. Sincerely, LT Quinn Mallonee
Thank you!
LT Quinn Mallonee thank you for working with our vet's and introducing them to the hobby. I live near JBLM and would love to donate to your cause, please reach out and let me know how I can help.
LT Quinn Mallonee, please see my comment below. Would love to help
Love that the jordan 86 fleer sticker RC had a $10 price tag on it lol😂
These types of stories make me so jealous .
Me too
Dad was a dealer from 1985 to 1993. I'm not sure how much 86 fleer was produced, but it was certainly greater than demand. Dad had a case that was hard to unload. 87 was produced at a much lower number. Based on how much I saw at shows 88 was produced at a similar rate as 86. 1988 was when people started to look at sports besides baseball so 1988 fleet was a hit product thus fleer cranked up the press a bit by 1989. By 1990 basketball truly entered the junk wax territory. 1989 had no big rookies, but look at the price of 89 wax compared to 90 and it will collaborate my story. As a kid I started to get into basketball cards in 1988. I never did have a 86 Jordan, but don't ask me about the cards I did have. I sold everything in the late 90s before going to college. A 87 to 92 fleer run and a lot of 70s topps basketball including a complete 70-71 set. If only I had a time machine.
Steve Kerr was 1989 Hoops! Otherwise not many rookies, you’re right.
@@JunkWaxHero 1989 hoops had two robinsons also, but fleer did not have many rookies. The series 1 Robinson rookie was worth so much at the time there are actually fake 89 hoops Robinson rookies at the time.
Oh right! I have a million of the Robinsons
Awesome!
Another great find story. Thanks for sharing. These are my type of videos!
Thanks Orlando!
Amazing collection
What an incredible story. The complete set of 86 fleet is cool but the red backs would be my favorites
Good pick!
Love it when I see a video of yours start to get some traction. Glad to see your hard work is starting to get you more views, Mike. Well done and we’ll deserved!!
Thanks Brent! Much appreciated.
Great video. Thanks for posting this. The Jordan cards would be my favorites.
Glad you enjoyed!
What a great find. Thank you for sharing.
Just subbed. Steve
Thanks Steve!
Really enjoying your Attic Finds Friday series.
Thank you so much!
Love these!
Thank you!
Wow, what a find. I wouldn’t be able to pick a favorite out of all of that. The Star cards would be on the list, but the vintage cards would most likely be my focus. I’d have to eat my Wheaties to move all of that in a timely manner.
My feelings exactly
That was an amazing story Mike thank you for telling this very interesting story.
Glad you enjoyed it
Craziness!!! Fun vid
Awesome video. 69 football looks awesome.
It does!
Great story maker 👍
Glad you think so!
Wow! This story sounds incredible,are there any other articles or videos about it? I'd love to hear more about it.
Sports Collectors Daily has the story. Google Rob Du Brey and sports cards.
@@JunkWaxHero Awesome! Thanks!
This was the best one yet. Just a lot of mystery here as how this all came to one spot and was forgotten.
Yeah I want to talk to G and ask so many questions
I live in Washington state and never heard of this story. Awesome find! All those inflated pop reports on some of those cards may make values drop. I'm a fan of any of the 80s and 90s basketball cards.
Cool stuff!
I'll never let my wife forget that she wouldn't let me buy a box of '86 fleer in '91 for $600!
Haha ouch!
lol! I recall being in 7th grade and a local 7/11 still had 1986 Fleer basketball packs (this was early fall of ‘87) and they had a sticker price put on each pack of .35/ea.
I bought my dad a Jordan rookie at a baseball card shop in late 1987 for $3 and the shop owner gave me a free 86 Fleer sticker to go with it. He had about 50-60 MJ rookies all in sleeves and top holders back then. MJ was considered done after he broke his foot…even when he came back he wasn’t considered a player who would last.
Fast forward to spring of 1989 I was a freshman in HS and a guy in my art class brought an album full of 86 Fleers cards…a full sheet for each good player…about 6 pages in? Yep-a whole sheet of Jordan rookies. He gave me one too…the next day he brought a full box of unopened 1987/88 Fleer basketball wax and was giving them out to us kids like candy. My buddy wanted Magic Johnson cards so gave him every Magic I got for every Jordan he pulled lol…I have a lot of stories like that growing up….and to think at the time I was really actually trying to hunt down a MiNt 1986 Donruss Canseco rookie too lol
@@harnessworx3046 wow!!!
Joels dad turns out delivered product on his retail routes for various periodical companies so naturally he always encounted sports card cases and boxes of all sports, non-sports etc. He would “slightly” damage a case or box on its corner for example so he could write it off as damaged. The distributor didnt want to “damagedl product back because it took up room-they told him to just record anything damaged and get rid of it-they could just simply make a journal entry for credit…everybody wins right??
So I asked him how he had so many Fleer basketball cards in sheets…he told me “I got bored one day and picked out several boxes from some cases and opened them up enough to fet 9 players I liked on each sheet.” I asked him how long his dsd had been “collecting” lime this and he has been doing this for about 15 years by then and had storage lockers full amd a basement full of unopened stuff. That was back in 1989…where Joel and/or his dad ever ended up with all that stuff I have no clue today.
All I can say is WOW!!! If it would only happen to me...
You and me both
Have a happy blessed Easter
You too!
This is a really good story. I am still wondering, there must be so much more to know too!
You and me both!
When you ask us to check out other videos, please provide a link. Thanks.
That's cool too see all the unopened star Jordans
Oh my Dear Lord…to come across a score like that…his heart must have been pumping thru his chest. Dishing out $6,000 back in 2016, before the Boom 🤯 was ballsy, but man did it sure pay off for him. I’m sure we are all jealous of that find, and to have that opportunity.
He dished out $3,000! The $6,000 is what he wanted to make before giving G 40% of the rest. Amazing deal.
The Jordan I saw in the beginning looked like it had yellowing, smokers, probably why it graded low. Great video! If you came across a storage unit now, it would most likely be priced out of control.
Good call on the smoking
My guess is 50s baseball HOFers are in the box. MY fav is clearly Uncle Jimmy's find. He only lived within a few minutes from me!
My favorite too
I like the 1971 Topps Super Baseball album the best.
That’s a great one
My favorite find is the TMNT pizza thrower
Hahaha yeah that’s up there for me too
I have a vague memory of having that thing. Huh, blast from the past
About 8 years go I bought a collection off Craigslist for $75 it was nothing too special but I got a 1985 topps baseball set, 89 upper deck factory sealed set, 87 fleer baseball set, 1986 topps football set minus the jerry rice, 1988 San Bernardino Spirit set (Griffey minor league) tons of junk stuff like topps traded from 88-91, 89 bowman factory set, 89 fleer set, but it was worth the $75!!
Sounds like it!
i bet hes got that Mantle RC in his safety deposit box
Hi Mike,
Just going through all your 'Attic Finds' series. All of them are brilliant! 👍
Would've liked to know whether the buyer kept his word and gave the 40% cut (after his initial outlay) to the seller.
Assuming he did, these sort of deals can be beneficial for both buyer snd seller.
Keep up the top work. Some really great stories in these finds, and you do a great job in telling them. Some of them I already knew about (Nicholas Cage stolen comic book, for example). You raise a good point there in questioning whether he'd have bought that comic book if he wasn't such a 'reckless spender'.
Nb: Despite not being a card collector anymore, I'm a bit of a lurker on the Blowout forums. It's a little like panning for gold: you come across some golden nuggets in there, but also a lot of excreta. 😃
Thanks John! I’m glad you’re enjoying them.
If its true that was an awesome find. Not sure about that deal they made though. I would keep it all. Michael Jordan is my favorite. Hope you get more info on it. I'm not sure why people collect so much memorabilia for years then just let it go in bulk sales.
Same here!
Sounds like someone owned a shop back then. Had to have closed sometime in the 90s.
Probably a good guess
51 topps set is where it's at
In his safety deposit box, he probably has a stack of 1990 Fleer Jose Uribe cards.
lol a classic
Oh to go back in time...I was selling comics in my young days in early 1980s and shop owner was selling complete baseball cards sets from 1948 to 1954 Bowman and Topps...Remember looking at prices he wanted from $200-450 range which he wanted me to pick up for my sold comics...I passed...:-)...of course I was selling early 1960s Marvel XMen #1s for $35 back then.....but biggest past mistake was seeing about 50 cases of 1986 Fleer basket ball wax opened and packs filling two very long aisles in a local TG&Y store for 3 cents a pack because they weren't selling. Manager sold a lot of baseball that year so doubled baseball order for the basketball release but apparently didn't sell hardly any...I actually laughed when I saw and didn't pick up any...
Ouch
Why can't I get this lucky?
That G.'s good cards must be junk wax Era rookies if all that was in those boxes.😂
Loose in his shed: jordan rookies
Secure in safe deposit box: Robbie Alomar rookies 😆
Crazy find out in nowhere
I’d have to say that I’m most impressed with all of the vintage baseball and football. All of it though is mind blowing!
There is a recent hoarder house that was peeled away by a CZcamsr named Storage Legends. He found a ton of cards and comics. The best that I witnessed in one of his videos were 1979-80 Topps Hockey packs. He pulled multiple Gretzky Rookies. I don’t think he was knowledgeable about everything though. I reached out to him and inquired about Topps vending boxes that he found and he had no idea what they were. When I asked about years and purchasing them all I heard was crickets from that point on.
That’s an amazing find
Yeah that guy lives in the same city as me. Young and not to knowledgeable but if you can bear through his videos amazing cards were found. The hoarder would buy and sell at my local flea market, I can remember seeing alot of this stuff back in the late 80's at the flea market.
He sells most his stuff on his CZcams channel on live pop up sales. I stopped in a couple times just to see old commons sell for way to much. Kind of made me think he had someone shill bidding the prices up.
You’re supposed to be at the dinner and the movies let me guess it all fell through lol
Fast forward 30 years this will repeat and it will all be worth less or more than now?
Mostly more
@@JunkWaxHero I think most of the cards will be less. There will be a rare minority that will be a lot more. Just like 1990s and we will wonder how did it happen?
The 40% agreement seems dicey for both parties. Is there a statute of limitations? Trust between parties us established how? I have to keep track of sakes in perpetuity? Consignments of any sort take up just as much labor in bookkeeping as they do in the actual selling. One-time , small but high-yield deals is one thing. This seems like a nightmare for both sides.
How would you handle it?
@@JunkWaxHero I'm a collector first but I do sell into the 4 figures each month with little effort. I buy bulk, integrate needs into my collection, and then sell excess. I don't have the infrastructure to track and itemize my bulk purchases and their resulting sales (tried it, not worth the effort). I certainly wouldn't enter into a handshake agreement with someone I have no previous relationship with. Clean, surgical buy is the only way for bulk. If I want something long-term then I'll get a tattoo.
He should’ve sent them to sgc -
The seller obviously didn't know what he had value wise. I doubt they made a written contract on the 40% of profit after original doubling of investment. I really hope the buyer keeps his word and both of them will have plenty of money.
I’m sure he did
PSA will not give a 89 Griffey upper deck a 9 or 10
The pop report has thousands of them
@@JunkWaxHero I'm talking in the last year they are harder on them now
So this is like a sasquatch sighting. No picks? And if there are, they are all blurry. No proof.
Too good to be true, I call bs
40% cut to the owner?!?!? You do 100% of the work and give away 40% of the profit. Horrible negotiation…
I could have bought the 1986-87 Fleer Basketball for $5.00 a box - they were THAT unpopular! If only . . . .
No kidding!
@@JunkWaxHero NO JOKE!!!
Are you still going to dinner tonight & that movie with your boy? Can I tag along? Please say yes because I’m parked out in front of your house right now. Lol. However, I’d rather go see the movie AIR. Would you guys mind🏀