Vintage Football Trading Card Found Pays Off For A Family

A family from Michigan was recently cleaning out an old farmhouse after a death in the family and they came across some vintage football and boxing trading cards.

They almost threw them out, but decided not to, and did a little bit of research.

From a story from Grand Rapids tv station WXMI, they took the collection to Legends Sports & Games in Michigan, their local collectibles store that has vintage cards and made a very nice discovery about one of the cards. The owner of the store said that they had “the Holy Grail of football cards.”

It was a card that was issued in 1894 by the Mayo Tobacco Works Of Richmond, Virginia. It was of Harvard’s John Dunlop – part of the rarest football set ever distributed, plus the only set from the 19^th century solely dedicated to football.

Dunlop’s name was left off of the card, so it’s considered “anonymous.” Lou Brown is the president of Legends Sports & Games in Michigan, estimates the card being worth $10,000 dollars. Can you imagine finding something like this in your own home?