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Posted by: Mr.Baseball in Baseball Articles, tags: BaseballIn the world of sports card collectors' items and there are some parts of the care of a monetary and historical value preserved. One such card is the T206 Honus Wagner card vintage baseball, as the Holy Grail of sports cards, which some collectors. The main reason is because of the rarity and age of the card. It is rumored that there may be between 50 and 200 cards in existence only lurking and some of them are still outon the market.
Honus Wagner, as shown in the map itself, was a player for the Pittsburgh Pirates in the hitherto called "dead ball" era. Considered one of the best players in the game, it is no wonder that between the years 1909-1911 was the American Tobacco Company (ATC) Wagner have a photo card as an incentive for people to buy their brand of snuff. Picture of Wagner was with the T206-series, butcertain problems arose over the authorization of its image, which is what led to the small amount of printing use map.
There are two theories in circulation that the reason might explain why Honus Wagner stopped production of their card. The first school of thought in ethical personal feelings with fans Honus Wagner, the children were based, buying cigarette packs to get your card, that he felt he was right. The second school of thought hasnot with the fact that Wagner was considered a very winding negotiator and did not know how the compensation offered to him was one of the ATV.
From January 1909 to search for ATC clearance from the players to be included on the T206 series of cards, I think the whole group had more than 524 major leaguers at the time and about 76 of these players was incorporation into the Hall of Fame Baseball. The ATC wanted to get to Honusaway from its advertising campaign, as he reviewed one of the best players in the league right now. Wagner had previous ad work with other companies, such as gunpowder, the company or a soft drink company and a company of gum did. Whether strong moral feelings, or their rock hard bargaining power, no one knows exactly why he really put an end to the pressure of his letters, but has its letters in a small number that are now considered of value value had fired skyhigh.
One of the most notorious of all the Wagner card, the "Gretzky T206 Honus" Card, mainly because the story of how this particular card traded hands of a collector on average, a sports memorabilia shop, a major distributor of sports memorabilia, who later founded Mastro Auctions. The card is again passed to another prominent businessman, who with George Steinbrenner and the Yankees, long story short, the Honus card ended with a related memorabiliaCollector name Copeland, who finally decided to sell his personal collection of all of baseball, which consisted of about 873 pieces.
The Wagner card is added to the collection, hired New Mastro Auctions at Sotheby's New York collection on consignment. There were a lot of hype surrounding this collection goes on sale, and brought a large number of fans and as a curiosity. Many of the items that are for sale is much more than theEstimates before the auction price. The first pre-auction price for the card of Honus was set at approximately U.S. $ 114,000.00, but few minutes after opening it had to be a whopping $ 451,000.00, was paid by Mr. Wayne Gretzky and Bruce McNall, who owns the NHL team the LA Kings the fans, the couple bought the card on the phone offers. After the card is known as "Gretzky T206 Honus known."
It was noted that organized the purchase of the card by Mr. McNall. Heexplains that if you buy the best in the world, there is always another buyer who wants the best and the purchase, was bought as an investment for individuals. Gretzky finally sell the card, and of course a benefit, so I'm late Mr. McNall thoughts about the purchase of the Wagner card was probably right. No other Wagner cards were told the same success in terms of the history of this type. The audience that the Gretzky T206catapulted moved the presence of the card, the card more in the collection of the stratosphere. While Gretzky card has a high entertainment value, not sold the most expensive card. In fact, the most expensive tickets are sold, was actually a T206 Honus Wagner, and that place in an eBay online auction started by Robert Edward Auctions. The card sold for $ 1.265 million crazy! Thus the conclusion of this card, currently holds the world record for the most expensive baseballper ticket.
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