T206 Honus Wagner

Last just fun question.

What is What is the most valuable item that you've ever appraised?

So I've been fortunate to appraise three of the T206 Honus Wagners.

Wow.

Real ones, real ones.

And as much as you can try to ignore it and push it aside, the reality is that smoking and baseball have gone hand in hand since Kennesaw Mountain Landis was still a molehill.

the t206 honus wagner the crown jewel of the entire card collecting hobby was a creation of the american tobacco company an entity so strong that the federal government ordered its dissolution the same day as standard oil allegedly not wanting to introduce cigarettes to young fans Wagner said he, quote, did not care to have his picture in a package of cigarettes, end quote.

Like all financial inevitabilities, though, the cards were printed anyway.

The MVP of each World Series is presented with a bronze miniature statue of Willie Mays, making what is arguably the most famous catch in the history of baseball, running straight back nearly 500 feet from home plate and perfectly timing every component of the play.

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this will have uh closed already but there's a wagner another t206 wagner has hit the auction market this is actually authentic it's gonna sell for somewhere between two and three million dollars i'm hoping it's slightly closer to three than it is to two um and high grade vintage cards are just you know flying off the shelves right now i think that uh the general public has has come to the conclusion that there's just not going to be another PSA 9 63 tops mantle graded or another PSA 10 68 mantle and grading is tighter than ever.

And the good cards have already been graded, so to speak.

So, you know, finding some of these raw cards is just, it's, it's incredible.

I guess maybe the 1 of 1 of...

If there was a 1 of 1 parallel to the T206 Wagner, as weird as an idea as that sounds, maybe that card could sort of have a claim to a high level of importance, but it would need to have some connection to meaning a lot to a lot of different people.

You know, I just had this thought.

Let me know if it makes any sense because I literally just made it up.