One day in the late 1960s, Uncle Peter was making the rounds for his sanitation and recycling company in Essex County, the gritty northeastern part of New Jersey within spitting distance of Manhattan.

Two months ago, news came of unopened trading cards in a 90-year-old aunt’s attic in Tennessee. For the better part of a half-century the cardboard gold had been stored in a Stroh’s beer box. This ...

A box of rare Bowman baseball cards from 1948 just sold for $514,746 at auction, months after they were discovered unopened in a Tennessee attic. It was a find that startled the baseball-card ...

A Tennessee man made the ultimate baseball-card find recently in his aunt’s attic — hundreds of packs of unopened and forgotten about cards from the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s. Very soon, they could sell ...

The sealed case could include the highly prized Wayne Gretzky rookie card. Or not. The buyer may never find out. By Amanda Holpuch A sealed case filled with unopened boxes of Canadian hockey trading ...