Jawa Ex Machina
Veteran
As a precursor to this, I'd like to say I live in a small town (about 50,000 people) that's really isolated in the center of Sweden. By isolated, I mean it's a 2.5 hour drive to the nearest town, and that's a small town too.
I went to a garage sale today. Actually, I just drove past it and decided to stop and have a look because I enjoy fleamarkets and stuff like that.
These two chicks in their 20s were selling all kinds of junk, and among the stuff was an old baseball full of autographs. She said her grandpa had given it to her when she was a year old but she didn't know if it was worth anything. Judging from how old she looked, I'd say this would have been the mid- to late 80's. She didn't know anything about baseball, and neither do I. Nobody here knows s**t about Baseball in kind of the same way nobody in Idaho knows anything about Swedish soccer.
Anyway, she told me her grandpa gave it to her and she had some relatives in the states so she got stuff like that. She was selling it for the equivalent of $15 USD and looking at it I couldn't say for sure if the autographs have been printed on it or written by the same pen. It looks worn though, and has a big mark as if someone's taken a major swing at it.
I've no idea if they sell these things in giftshops or if someone's managed to get an entire ball team to sign their ball at one point, if it's worth something or nothing at all. For 15 bucks I figured I'd take a gamble. If nothing else, maybe the fact that it's from the 80's could make it worth at least that much. Or at least it's a cool thing to put on the book shelf.
I'll post some pictures later on. In the meantime, anyone have a clue of what something like that could be worth, or if it could be genuine or not? Do they sell printed autograph balls that look real at all?
I went to a garage sale today. Actually, I just drove past it and decided to stop and have a look because I enjoy fleamarkets and stuff like that.
These two chicks in their 20s were selling all kinds of junk, and among the stuff was an old baseball full of autographs. She said her grandpa had given it to her when she was a year old but she didn't know if it was worth anything. Judging from how old she looked, I'd say this would have been the mid- to late 80's. She didn't know anything about baseball, and neither do I. Nobody here knows s**t about Baseball in kind of the same way nobody in Idaho knows anything about Swedish soccer.
Anyway, she told me her grandpa gave it to her and she had some relatives in the states so she got stuff like that. She was selling it for the equivalent of $15 USD and looking at it I couldn't say for sure if the autographs have been printed on it or written by the same pen. It looks worn though, and has a big mark as if someone's taken a major swing at it.
I've no idea if they sell these things in giftshops or if someone's managed to get an entire ball team to sign their ball at one point, if it's worth something or nothing at all. For 15 bucks I figured I'd take a gamble. If nothing else, maybe the fact that it's from the 80's could make it worth at least that much. Or at least it's a cool thing to put on the book shelf.
I'll post some pictures later on. In the meantime, anyone have a clue of what something like that could be worth, or if it could be genuine or not? Do they sell printed autograph balls that look real at all?
