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GUEST: These were my
great-grandmother's. We found

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them in a tote of her dolls.
They are just Walt Disney bubble
gum cards.

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APPRAISER: Okay, and when did
you discover your grandmother's
cards?

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Last night, we were looking
through her totes of dolls, and
we found these at the bottom.

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APPRAISER: Okay, so you
literally discovered these,
like, the night before coming...

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GUEST: Yes. APPRAISER:
...to ANTIQUES ROADSHOW?

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GUEST: Right before we came.

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APPRAISER: Wow, okay, so you are
correct. They are Walt Disney
gum trading cards. But
specifically,

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the series is actually Mickey
Mouse. Now, they were released
in 1935. They were manufactured
by

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Gum Inc., Gum Incorporated,
which was one of the biggest
manufacturers of non-sport
trading cards

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at the time. Now, later on, Gum
Incorporated ended up being
renamed the Bowman Company,

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which went on to make baseball,
football... I mean, a powerhouse
of printing cards.

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When it comes to the Mickey
Mouse card set, there are 96
cards within the complete set.

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GUEST: Mm-hmm.

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APPRAISER: You have 36 cards
here today. Any idea why we have
these two cards on the board
today?

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GUEST: That one looks real
bright. There's two of the
number ones,

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and that one's a much brighter
than that one. They look like
they're in good condition.

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APPRAISER: Okay, so, great
observation. They are in good
condition. But I'm going to drop

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a little factoid of knowledge on
you. So when you look at the
bottom margin of the cards...

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GUEST: Mm-hmm. APPRAISER:
...you're going to see how

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this one says "This picture
answers question on other side."

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GUEST: Mm-hmm.

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APPRAISER: Whereas that card
over there says, "Here's the
answer to question on card no.
2."

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So that's because of the 96
cards released in this set, the
first 24 had two printing

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variations. The first printing
variation, which is the rarer of
the two, is this example right

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here. So out of the first 24
cards, you always want to find a
card with that slogan. Now,

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you did say condition. In the
grand scheme of card condition,
these are very, very poor, like,

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in bad shape. But if you were a
paper trading card from 1935,
you'd be in wicked bad shape,
too.

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GUEST: (laughing)

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APPRAISER: Now, we don't have
a complete set. You have some

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duplicates of cards that
you have here today.

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GUEST: Mm-hmm. APPRAISER:
Conservatively, at auction,

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we would say the group would be
worth about $2,000 to $3,000.

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GUEST: (laughing): Oh,
wow! That was not expected!

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APPRAISER: Awesome!
Yes! That's crazy.

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GUEST: I wouldn't have
ex... That's astonishing.

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APPRAISER: She left you a nice
little present in a box of
dolls.

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GUEST: Thank you!