Rare vintage packs and sets and some of the hobby’s most popular cards join the previously announced T206 Honus Wagner in Mile High Card Company’s latest catalog auction.
Graded packs of 1948-49 Leaf Baseball (PSA 7), 1952 Topps (1st series, PSA 7) and 1954 Topps (5-cent PSA 7) are among the big ticket items along with a 1974 Topps Baseball wax box, a 1975 Topps Baseball cello box, a 1991 Topps Desert Shield wax box and a 1959 Topps Football 1st series vending box.
The auction will contain stacks of iconic vintage cards including an SGC 5.5 example of the 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle, a PSA 3 1951 Bowman Mantle rookie and a T206 Sherry Magee “Magie” error card—one of the ‘Big Four’ rarities in the famous tobacco card set.
Other individual card lots include a 1914 Cracker Jack Joe Jackson PSA 1.5, a 1933 Goudey #53 Babe Ruth SGC 2.5, a 1933 Goudey #144 Ruth PSA 4, a 1950 Bowman Jackie Robinson PSA 8, a 1955 Topps Roberto Clemente rookie SGC 7 NM, PSA 9 copies of the 1960 Carl Yastrzemski and 1963 Topps Pete Rose rookie cards, a PSA 10 1965 Topps Tony Perez rookie, a 1968 Topps Rose PSA 10 and a 1969 Topps Mantle PSA 9.
For the fourth time since 2019, Mile High will offer a T206 Wagner in one of its auctions, this one rated “restored” by PSA.
It’s the first Wagner to reach the market since Goldin sold a PSA 1.5 example for $3.7 million in October 2022. The card offered by MHCC is the one SCP Auctions sold for just over $1.1 million in October 2021. The card is branded Authentic/Restored by PSA primarily because of some creases that were were touched up in the background of the card, which is otherwise completely original, including the Sweet Caporal cigarettes advertising back.
Over the last four years, Mile High has sold multiple copies of the T206 Wagner including the PSA 1 “All-Star Cafe” example that netted over $3 million in March of last year.
“The record-breaking results that we’ve achieved in past T206 Wagner auctions afforded us the opportunity to offer up this magnificent card,” boasted MHCC CEO and President Brian Drent of the company’s most recent offering. .
Football cards up for bids in the current auction include a 1957 Topps Johnny Unitas rookie graded PSA 8 and a 1959 Unitas slabbed as a PSA 9.
Basketball cards in the auction include a 1961-62 Fleer Wilt Chamberlain rookie PSA 8, an autographed 1986 Star #5 Michael Jordan (Beckett/BAS 8) and a 1986 Fleer Jordan rookie graded PSA 9.
Several sets that are ranked on PSA’s registry are featured, including a 1994 SP Holoview Red (ranked #2) and a 1999 Upper Deck Century Legends Epic Signatures (ranked #1). Other sets available include an 1887 N28 Allen & Ginter (10 cards, all graded), fully graded 1933 and ’34 Goudey, 1954 Bowman and Topps and 1959 Topps.
Memorabilia collectors will have several pages of pre-War baseball items and historic photos to pick from. Among them:
- Circa 1908 Reach First Baseman’s Mitts tin litho advertising sign
- 1916 Boston Red Sox Rooters ribbon badge With Bill Carrigan
- 1910 Philadelphia Athletics champions pin featuring Harry Davis
- 1920s Babe Ruth Bambino Smoking Tobacco pocket tin
- Circa 1910s Ty Cobb Type I photograph
- 1919 “Shoeless” Joe Jackson Type I photo
- Circa 1920s Walter Johnson Type I news service photo from his estate
- 1926 Babe Ruth and Miller Huggins Type I news service photo
- Circa 1930s Roger Hornsby Type I NEA news photo
- Circa 1930s Jimmie Foxx Type I Detroit News Service photo
- Circa 1950 Jackie Robinson Type I photo as seen on his 1950 Bowman baseball card
The auction also has a 1971 Bobby Orr Boston Bruins road jersey with a Resolution photo match, a 1970 Pele Brazil National Team autographed jersey (MEARS A10) and a 1967 Willie McCovey San Francisco Giants road jersey (MEARS A10).
Bidding opens on Wednesday, August 23 and concludes on Saturday, September 9.
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