Wagner T206 Auctioned in 1981

[chriskim]

Would love to know more about that "Wagner cut out from a strip of 5" story! This is new to me!

[Orioles1954]

Did he go to the Larry Fritsch School of Grading? I bought one group of T213s from Fritsch where a Cobb with a punch hole was described as VG. After returning that lot, I couldn't help but wonder what a Poor card looked like?

[toppcat]

The irony is that in the 70's Lew used to rail against hobby dishonesty in his monthly TTS column and elsewhere. I met him once, at a big show on Long Island (Nassau Coliseum) decades ago where he had a table and I bought all three Encyclopedias from him. Tried to talk to him as the cash was forked over and he just kinda growled and turned away. I remember thinking this guy should be on top of the world, what's he so grouchy about?

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by toppcat

The irony is that in the 70's Lew used to rail against hobby dishonesty in his monthly TTS column and elsewhere. I met him once, at a big show on Long Island (Nassau Coliseum) decades ago where he had a table and I bought all three Encyclopedias from him. Tried to talk to him as the cash was forked over and he just kinda growled and turned away. I remember thinking this guy should be on top of the world, what's he so grouchy about?

Same experience here. The one time that I met him, at a show, I checked out the cards on his table, and decided to purchase a T3 in low condition that was in a plastic sheet. His interaction with me was a bunch of grunts...I don't think he ever looked at me, he was busy with something, his head down low. As I was walking away from his table, I noticed that the sheet he handed me also had another, much nicer, T3 on the back side. I went back to the table and pointed out the mistake. Once again, not a word, and no expression of surprise or gratitude, he just yanked the other T3 from the sheet and went back to ignoring the world.

brianp(arker)-beme

[Ricky]

I bought a few vintage cards from him back in the late '80s and when they arrived, always found that they had been overgraded... cards that were VG had been listed as EX. But while Lew may not have been the most accurate grader or the most congenial, there's no question about his contributions towards the understanding of vintage cards.

[sportscardpete]

if the winner of the auction would like to make a tiny profit please pm me.

In all seriousness, thanks for sharing!!

[chriskim]

Come on guys!... pls don't flop this thread to against Mr. Lew Lipset. Lew is one of the legend!

[GasHouseGang]

Originally Posted by chriskim

Would love to know more about that "Wagner cut out from a strip of 5" story! This is new to me!

Here's a picture of a similar strip.

[ullmandds]

Originally Posted by GasHouseGang

Here's a picture of a similar strip.

the "only" strip?

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by GasHouseGang

Here's a picture of a similar strip.

Cut that strip up and you have an oversized Near Mint Bowerman with proof marks.

Brian

[swarmee]

I thought Keith Olberman had the strip pictured. I think the 0000001 copy was just an oversized border.

[GasHouseGang]

I wasn't saying it came from this particular strip. I just posted it as an example of what the strip may have looked like that the card came from.

[sb1]

As I recall from looking at the strip years ago, those five cards are a mock-up and each is an individual card glued to a backing to form the strip, thus the line between each one. A sheet with cards would not have that line between the cards.

As an addendum, no one has ever seen the "sheet" that the Wagner is rumored to be cut from, nor any other T206's in sheet form. It was just a regular T206, albeit slightly large enough to cut down.