Have you thought about what's hidden in your attic? From old clothes, to holiday decorations, and bins baby toys it can be a real chore to dig through your old treasures.
After reading this story, it may motivate you to climb up and do some cleaning. You may even find some collectibles up there that are actually worth money, like this Tennessee man did.
After his uncle passed away, he found the biggest unopened collections in baseball card history hidden in his 90-year-old aunt's attic.
"Hello, I have some unopened full boxes and almost full boxes from the 1950s and 1960s that I am considering for your auction," said the man to Brian Drent, president of the Mile High Card Company.
The caller revealed he had boxes from the early 1960's Topps and Fleer football, 1959 Fleer Ted Williams and other sealed packs.
But the big news to Drent was, "Oh, and I have a box, it's only 19 of the 24 packs, but it's a Play Ball box from 1948. Wait, no, it's 1948 Bowman."
These black and white cards were from the Philadelphia gum company from the first year that they had a milestone set.
The 1948 Bowman little-big set was the first mainstream issue since 1941 due to the World War II paper shortage.You can find 9 Hall of Famers, including rookie cards of Stan Musial, Yogi Berra and Ralph Kiner.
Continue to the next page to find out what they are worth!
For half a century, his uncle had kept the packs untouched in a Stroh's beer box almost as old as the cards themselves.
His late uncle owned and operated a confectionery company that produced non-sports bubblegum cards of popular TV shows in the 1960s. At one point he bought the various sports card for research, hoping to break into sports.
After speaking to a neighborhood friend, who is a collector and consigner with Mile High, he called Drent with his Beer Box Find.
The unopened material sparks the curiosity of the collector, like a locked treasure chest.
"It's in the state of absolute perfection and the unknown,"Drent said. "And the complete rarity of the packs. Why didn't they ever get opened? How is that possible after 70, make that 69, years?"
The decision on whether to open these ancient artifacts will lie with the winner of the auction on June 15th.
Last month, an unopened pack of 1948 Bowman basketball cards fetched $55,200 at auction. Basketball is a very distant third in popularity behind baseball and the most popular- football.
It's expected that the display box that holds 19 of the 24 original wax packs will bring in a total to exceed $1 million.
To open or not to open, that is the question!