After leaving Champion Sports Cards, I decided to check out one more local Atlanta card shop. So I headed over to Dave's in the Roswell area. I entered the shop (which is a two room store) noting they also have non-sport and Pokemon cards as well as some comic books.
Heading into the second room, I see there are several showcases with hockey, basketball, football, and baseball cards. There was also a showcase which house what I assume is Dave's personal Mickey Mantle collection which was quite nice.
The shopkeeper (not the owner) greeted me and was very attentive as I looked at several vintage cards from the showcases. There were a bunch of ungraded vintage HOFer cards. They also had some poor-fair condition 1933 Goudeys, which I looked through. I ended up picking out 3 of the Goudeys for a total of $50. Then I saw a card that caught my eye - a 1956 Topps Luis Aparicio rookie card that looked very sharp. It had a $20 price tag and was noted as marked. Upon inspection it has a large "4" ink stamp on the back. The front has a bit of ink/print marks as well, but it presents really well. I thought it was well worth $20 to pick up this HOF RC from the mid-1950s.
Dave's also had several 5000 count boxes of raw, low condition 1940s-1970s commons and HOFers. I searched through these and found a bunch I would normally have bought. I was near my spending limit though with the Ashburns from Champion, the 3 Goudeys, and the Aparicio RC.
We will be back in Atlanta in late April, and I plan to visit Dave's again to see what other prizes I can find.
Heading into the second room, I see there are several showcases with hockey, basketball, football, and baseball cards. There was also a showcase which house what I assume is Dave's personal Mickey Mantle collection which was quite nice.
The shopkeeper (not the owner) greeted me and was very attentive as I looked at several vintage cards from the showcases. There were a bunch of ungraded vintage HOFer cards. They also had some poor-fair condition 1933 Goudeys, which I looked through. I ended up picking out 3 of the Goudeys for a total of $50. Then I saw a card that caught my eye - a 1956 Topps Luis Aparicio rookie card that looked very sharp. It had a $20 price tag and was noted as marked. Upon inspection it has a large "4" ink stamp on the back. The front has a bit of ink/print marks as well, but it presents really well. I thought it was well worth $20 to pick up this HOF RC from the mid-1950s.
Dave's also had several 5000 count boxes of raw, low condition 1940s-1970s commons and HOFers. I searched through these and found a bunch I would normally have bought. I was near my spending limit though with the Ashburns from Champion, the 3 Goudeys, and the Aparicio RC.
We will be back in Atlanta in late April, and I plan to visit Dave's again to see what other prizes I can find.
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