With one T206 Honus Wagner card set to possibly challenge the all-time record price for a baseball card, a second one will reach the auction market not long afterward. SCP Auctions will be offering an Authentic (Restored) example of the hobby’s most famous face in its next major catalog sale. The card is also expected to bring a seven-figure final hammer … [Read more...] about SCP Auctions to Offer T206 Wagner in Fall Auction
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Missing Stars from the T201 Mecca Double Folders Set
The T201 Mecca Double Folders set was interactive, long before the term came into vogue. Each card featured two players with a long vertical image of one on one side and the top of of a second on the other. The cards had a factory 'fold' and when the top half was folded down, the second player's upper body would be displayed against the same lower body of the player on the … [Read more...] about Missing Stars from the T201 Mecca Double Folders Set
The Wayback Collector: Card Collecting ‘Fad’ Outlasted Expectations
While it is difficult today to imagine a world without card collecting, it is worth noting that not all believed the hobby would be around for the long haul. An early newspaper article demonstrates that belief. In the early 1900s, tobacco card collecting was getting to become quite popular. An article appearing in the September 15, 1910 Pottsville Republican newspaper made … [Read more...] about The Wayback Collector: Card Collecting ‘Fad’ Outlasted Expectations
10 Top T207 Cards to Test Your Tenacity
The T207 brown background set isn't on the radar for most collectors. While the T206 is arguably the most popular pre-war set available with the T205 gold border issue not far behind, T207s just aren't as popular. The cards have a dark look to them with little color included, the set is missing some big stars from that era, and they are also much more difficult to find than the … [Read more...] about 10 Top T207 Cards to Test Your Tenacity
Printing Puzzle: Third Known T206 Joe Tinker Variation Comes to Auction
For more than 100 years, baseball fans and collectors have been enjoying what we now know as the T206 set. It’s full of famous names and not-so-famous names. Minor leaguers and big league legends. It also has its share of printing variations and scarcities (see Wagner, Honus). One of those is a relatively new discovery; sort of a ghost printing on the uniform of the Joe … [Read more...] about Printing Puzzle: Third Known T206 Joe Tinker Variation Comes to Auction
Wagner Proof Strip on Display; Will Be Sold
It was once a part of perhaps the best collection of baseball memorabilia ever assembled. A five-card proof strip of T206 cards--one that included a Honus Wagner--is back in the public eye and less than two months from another visit to the auction block. The strip once belonged to Barry Halper, the late and legendary collector, and was first sold publicly in 1999 when … [Read more...] about Wagner Proof Strip on Display; Will Be Sold
T206 Wagner Card Sold for $925,000
A very good condition T206 Wagner is leaving one private collector for another at a price that establishes another new benchmark. … [Read more...] about T206 Wagner Card Sold for $925,000