The Collection: Banker's Box #1

About a week ago I teased a picture of a collection I had been gifted. Lots of responses were left about the patience I was displaying by not immediately digging in to unearth potential gems.

Well, you all shook me to my senses and I started the very next evening.

It has been a process, but a fun one at that.

Some of the collection was purchased from an estate sale style auction in Decatur, Illinois.  Yet, some of the cards were from the owner's original collection. Price tags, auction tickets, receipts a couple of printed off e-mails helped me put the pieces of the puzzle together.

Actually, I think I had almost as much fun playing the sleuth as I did the collector!

 The first banker's box, pictured at the top of this post, yielded a bunch of singles from the early 1990's, including Leaf, Stadium Club, Fleer Ultra and Pinnacle.  Good stuff.  I started pulling some of the best card photos to share and I think I found some good ones. Man, I love the photography from the '92 & '93 Upper Deck sets!

 There were a few hand collated sets and couple of starter sets to finish, but nothing to surprising within the first box. In all, there were probably about 4,000 cards in the box. Including about 1,500 cards of 1990 Donruss.  Ack.

I did find a box of stars from the time period which included some oddballs, which was encouraging.

But, it gets better. Vintage better.

Stay tuned, as I have four more large boxes to dig through!