GUEST: This is a postcard of my husband, Harry's, grandfather, whose name was Harry.

He was named after him, and he's right here, along with two of his brothers.

They were farmers.

They played on the Grange, uh, baseball team.

My Harry bought his grandfather's house in Littleton and then discovered these in one of the trunks.

APPRAISER: So you're representing Littleton with the postcard.

GUEST: That's right, that's right.

APPRAISER: I appreciate that.

What really excites me--and no offense to Littleton--is the six, your complete set of 1911 M110s Sporting Life cabinet cards.

Sporting Life, in its infinite wisdom and to compete with the publications at the time, thought, "Let's use the likeness of ballplayers and sell our publication."

So, on the back of these, uh, cabinet cards, you see exactly that, an invitation to read Sporting Life.

In promoting itself, Sporting Life smartly used the images of the players, but they were not promoting baseball teams.

So when you look at the jerseys, they're nondescript.

These are about as rare a cards as you'll find.

GUEST: Wow.

APPRAISER: And we've got Ty Cobb, Frank Chance, Larry Lajoie, Christy Mathewson, Hal Chase, and Honus Wagner.

On the front, we've got pastel-colored lithographic depictions of each player.

We looked at 'em closely, and we consider the edges, uh, the corners, potential creasing, and things that astute card-graders look at.

And we think that, based on all of that, a condition assessment of low- to mid-grade would be warranted for these cards.

The cards are not made of thick card stock like cabinets were at the time, which makes them more condition-sensitive.

If you were to insure this, you could insure for up to $100,000.

GUEST: Whew!

Really?

APPRAISER: Absolutely.

GUEST: (laughing): Okay.

Never thought that, okay.

(chuckling) APPRAISER: Yeah.

And, and you probably should.

(laughs) GUEST: And we should, okay.

(both laughing) All right.

APPRAISER: Yeah, these are some, some pretty scarce cards.

These are about as rare as they come.

GUEST: Okay.

APPRAISER: Yeah.

GUEST: Whew!

It's great, I love it.

(both laugh) My husband'll be very surprised.

(both laugh) Wow.