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Henry Reccius HONUS WAGNER card
Neat outside the hobby find. I really have to start visiting second-hand stores more often. Can you imagine seeing this card in a thrift store and calmly offering to buy 3 pair of used shoes if they throw in the card as part of the purchase.
Any thoughts or observations (any guesses on the hammer price.....)? http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/...r-sale-634696/ http://www.lelands.com/Home/HonusWagner Lovely Day... Last edited by iggyman; 05-08-2012 at 12:20 PM. |
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cool find/story.
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impatient to see the auction result
Last edited by g_vezina_c55; 05-08-2012 at 12:19 PM. |
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huh...article says 3 are known to exist? I was only aware of the one Hal used to own? Great story though...definitely exciting to see another survive!!!
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I know that a lot of research was done regarding the actual date of issue of this card. Can anyone fill me in on the latest?
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This is an example of a find I think is very cool and something I concur with being significant, but at the same time it doesn't bother me in the least not to have one.
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Reccius
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Peter, I agree with you. Hal had the only example know. I wonder if they are somehow thinking of the Henry Reccius cigar box as the second example? Tony |
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I know that a lot of research was done regarding the actual date of issue of this card. Can anyone fill me in on the latest?
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The small town where the card owner lives, Port Townsend WA, is where my sister lives. It's a nice place.
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I've never seen that, but it's a gorgeous card. Why the Authentic rating?
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I believe the 2 known to exist are both graded A due to the lack of knowledge about them.
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I don't recall if the other one was graded a number or was graded authentic. I assume it's so rare, they're just playing it safe.
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i stand corrected...it looks like the other was graded PSA 1! Not sure why this one got an A...who graded it?
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Honus Wagner Henry Reccius Card - Shedding Some Light
Curious thoughts always arised when considering a circa date for the Honus Wagner (Henry Reccius Card). Please refer to this link :
http://thelibrary.org/blogs/article.cfm?aid=1065 Right hand side of the Reccius Card reads: ~ HOME TELEPHONE 5807 ~ (XXXX is a four digit telephone number). As per research done, 4 digit telephone numbers were not used until 1905. |
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The adoption of three and four number phone numbers varied by the size of the local exchange. So Pittsburg could have had four digit numbers much earlier. http://www.privateline.com/Telephone...A/numbers.html Steve B |
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The newspaper shown here
http://news.google.com/newspapers?ni...rontpage&hl=en Is from 1900 and shows a four digit number in the Urling Bros ad at the lower right of page 12. Steve B |
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Louisville definitely had 4 digit telephone numbers in the 1890's. Here is one for the "Italian-Swiss Colony Wine Co." from September of 1899. I have seen many that are even earlier.
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...arRange&page=1 Last edited by Baseball Rarities; 07-24-2014 at 11:19 PM. |
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Interesting thread. This is one of those type mysteries that keeps the hobby fun for me.
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