Man finds baseball cards in his attic that will likely land him a 7-figure fortune

Collectibles are like the new gold of the world. Finding a rare set of basically any collector’s items can quickly move you up a couple tax brackets.

An anonymous Tennessee man knows that better than anybody. He found an old set of early 1960s Topps and Fleer Football cards, 1959 Fleer Ted Williams cards, an unopened box of 1961 Fleer Basketball wax packs and a box of 1948 Bowman unopened packs. The president of the Mile High Card Company, Brian Drent, estimated that the total value of all these cards will rake in over $1 million. He told Forbes that the 1948 Bowman box was worth approximately $500 on its own.

With over nine days left in the auction for that box alone, the bid is already up to $171,455.00 (USD).

Apparently all these packs were around because the man’s uncle had purchased them for research purposes (He was in a non-sports trading card business) but never opened them.

In the set of 1961 Fleer Basketball packs, they assume rookie cards of players like Wilt Chamberlain, Jerry West and Oscar Robertson will be within the boxes and somehow the baseball cards are still more valuable. So valuable that someone was apparently selling one of the empty wrappers from these packs for just under $4,000 on eBay.

The reason the packs seem to be so valuable is because it is the first set mainstream issue after World War II, and it is likely to contain some of Stan Musial, Yogi Berra, Ralph Kiner, Phil Rizzuto, Warren Spahn and Red Schoendienst’s rookie cards. There are apparently five cards in each pack, with three of the rookies within it.

Two of the rookies mentioned above (Musial & Berra) combined with a Bob Feller card (All evaluated as mint condition – PSA 10) to sell for $564,000. So, the packs could potentially be worth significantly more after opening them. Still, there’s no turning back now for the seller, who will have to wait and see if the new owner will open the packs and make a fortune of their own.

This will have us checking our attics immediately. Over one million USD. That’s approximately $1.35 million Canadian. Seriously, go check your attic right now.

(H/T to Forbes)