Posted By:
JimB
The Piedmont one that Mastro sold a few years ago was from the Charles Bray collection. Since he was a very prominent collector, I don't think that would qualify as a new find among Wagners. The fact that it had a Piedmont back may have been a new revelation however.
I think it is virtually impossible to count these for obvious reasons. I have only heard of one or two legitimate new discoveries to the hobby in the past 10-15 years. They just don't come up that often. So if there have been five or six new discoveries in the past 30 years, that would up the estimate to 55-65 roughly (assuming the earlier estimate was accurate). No offense intended, but somebody telling a teenager (at the time) that they know where 47 of them are should be taken with a grain of salt. I wouldn't consider it a fact. I doubt anybody could accurately account for that many of them today.
JimB