Home Baseball Baseball Cards T206 Honus Wagner Baseball History of the Worlds Most Famous Card. HONUS WAGNER 1909 T206 Cigarette SOVEREIGN Back REPRINT - Baseball Card In August, a T206 Honus Wagner baseball card set the stratospheric record for most expensive sports card of all time when it sold for $6.606 million with Robert Edward Auctions. This card is so famous that even individual specimens have their own unique names, individual stories and fame. T206 Honus Wagner Card: The Ultimate Collector's Guide The first suggests that Wagner, a Hall of Fame shortstop for the Pittsburgh Pirates, didnt want his likeness used to market tobacco. History is just a couple of mouse clicks away. [47] The two companies intended to use the card as the grand prize in a promotional contest. In 2010, the fabled T206 Honus Wagner card once again gained national notoriety when a new card was found. I got extremely lucky. [50], Michael Gidwitz, the same individual who battled with Gretzky and Mark Friedland for the card at the Copeland auction in 1991, won the Christie's auction with a bid of $641,500 in 1996 (equivalent to $1,108,367 in 2021). Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for 1910 Honus Wagner Cigar Advertisement Card 1 Of 1 Authentic 1909 Cigar at the best online prices at eBay! Included in the above auction, a PSA 1 card sold for $110,000. Just a short six months later, the card was sold to another anonymous collector for $2.8 million. Honus Wagner is the highlight of this 11-card set issued by American Caramel that honors the Pittsburg (how the city's name is spelled on the cards) Pirates 1909 team that defeated the Detroit Tigers in the World Series. 1? 999 Pure Silver Honus Wagner WHC403 at the best online prices at eBay! Videos Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video! The final bid was $700,000, but with a 13% buyer's premium added, the realized price was $791,000.
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