For Sale Barn find in New York 10k lb vintage boards

[Bardboards]

Hello!

I’ve been chatting with people in the intro page about my cache for a few days but I am officially putting it up for sale !

I have gotten a couple offers from my intro but I was told this is the official place of exchange so I haven’t accepted yet. I’m new here but I’ve been sitting on bare boards that I bought from a barn auction a couple years ago. Inside the barn that are roughly 10,000 pounds of bare boards and very few amount of wire or gold pins. I have no knowledge of this world and I only stumbled into it. I’m learning boards from the 60s 70s 80s are rich in PM and these boards sure do shine. There’s also a solid case for collectors items here. What knowledge I lack hopefully you can benefit from. I can’t find comps for hardly any of these items and it seems they just don’t exist. I did educate myself on some valid expectations of offers but I request that you as buyers recognize this isn’t a regular cache, this is the collection from a man who was affiliated with NASA, the World’s Fair and had been collecting since the 80s. It sounds like he was way before his time in recognizing value in these things. I’m happy to share his bio with the new owner. We are located in upstate New York about 2 hours from Nyc and 1 hour from Albany. Pickup and hauling is required from buyer. We ask that pickup be scheduled before Sept 20. Cash or cashiers check upon pickup. This is my residential property and I really can’t just show everyone and anyone. Only after making an initial competitive offer you can come but you must be prepared to buy that day.
I’m hoping to decide on offers by Tuesday 9/13
TY

 

[scrappyjoe]

so ? what happened ?

 

[notehunter494]

I know little about electronic scrap having been a jeweler but from my casual reading here aren't the wires and pins the where most of the PM's are?

 

[coincard]

Hello!

I’ve been chatting with people in the intro page about my cache for a few days but I am officially putting it up for sale !

I have gotten a couple offers from my intro but I was told this is the official place of exchange so I haven’t accepted yet. I’m new here but I’ve been sitting on bare boards that I bought from a barn auction a couple years ago. Inside the barn that are roughly 10,000 pounds of bare boards and very few amount of wire or gold pins. I have no knowledge of this world and I only stumbled into it. I’m learning boards from the 60s 70s 80s are rich in PM and these boards sure do shine. There’s also a solid case for collectors items here. What knowledge I lack hopefully you can benefit from. I can’t find comps for hardly any of these items and it seems they just don’t exist. I did educate myself on some valid expectations of offers but I request that you as buyers recognize this isn’t a regular cache, this is the collection from a man who was affiliated with NASA, the World’s Fair and had been collecting since the 80s. It sounds like he was way before his time in recognizing value in these things. I’m happy to share his bio with the new owner. We are located in upstate New York about 2 hours from Nyc and 1 hour from Albany. Pickup and hauling is required from buyer. We ask that pickup be scheduled before Sept 20. Cash or cashiers check upon pickup. This is my residential property and I really can’t just show everyone and anyone. Only after making an initial competitive offer you can come but you must be prepared to buy that day.
I’m hoping to decide on offers by Tuesday 9/13
TY
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So has anything been done on this lot yet? if not what are you thinking in terms in cash, I am about 8 hours away and would be interested to here what you are thinking considering there will be fuel and transportation costs involved in a deal like this

 

[kurtak]

So has anything been done on this lot yet?

The last time Bardboards was here (on the forum) was September/19/2022 - he was here for the sole purpose of selling his boards - he had several buyers interested in buying his boards - he likely stopped posting here because he found buyers for all his boards

Kurt

 

[silversaddle1]

I wonder if he had the goldmine he thought he had.......

 

[snoman701]

It didn't look like a goldmine. It looked like a pile of nice boards with a whole bunch of tin plated copper.

 

[billgold]

Yep. A lot of the stuff looked like it was re-flow solder boards, meaning a lot of tin and lead. I suspect it would be a real pain to refine.

Older boards have thicker gold on them. I seem to recall it was around the 90's that they started making the gold traces as thin as possible.

 

[nickton]

How does one find out if any is available ?