Valuable Card Collection Found in Home

[LoKyBuckeye]

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Valuable Card Collection Found in Home Thu Jan 19, 5:05 PM ET

BOSTON - Police were called to guard the condemned home of a reclusive man whose death led to the discovery of a valuable collection of vintage sports cards.

The collection, stored in 400 to 500 boxes in John F. Hessian's home in Boston's Roslindale section, included cards of such long-ago baseball stars as Ted Williams, Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays and Roberto Clemente.

Hessian also had football and hockey cards dating to the 1940s in a collection police estimate could be worth up to $1 million, according to a report published Thursday in the Boston Herald.

"This is like Fort Knox inside," said Michael Wiseman of Aftermath Cleaning Co., which was hired to tear through piles of trash 6-feet high to reach the cards.

Hessian, 83, lived alone in the home his entire life, until a neighbor discovered him dead there on Jan. 2.

Four truckloads of the cards were removed from the house last week. Hessian also had some valuable cards stored in a safe deposit box in an unknown location.

Hessian is survived by two cousins who are left to hunt for a will or determine who inherits the card collection.

 

[Bucktastic]

4 Truckloads???? WOW.

 

[Steve19]

He left it all to me...really...there's a Dock Ellis card in there somewhere and when I told him I liked it, he said, "it's yours when I'm gone, you can have it all."

Uh, what did he look like again?

 

[OSUsushichic]

Hmm... Roslindale is right down the street from me. Maybe I'll have to take a little walk this weekend.

 

[Taosman]

THAT'S where my '63' Clemente went to!