The trend in Wagner cards

cgjackson222 · #1 07-16-2024, 02:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Touch'EmAll

An original Honus Wagner photo, which was used to create the T206 card, just sold at auction for $ 117,500. - It sold 5 years ago for $ 65.k. Wagner stuff seemingly still doing quite well.

While that is a decent profit, I don't know if a sale of just over $100K for a picture of its importance is all that impressive. The auction house had estimated $100K to $300K.

ullmandds · #2 07-16-2024, 03:07 PM

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Originally Posted by cgjackson222

While that is a decent profit, I don't know if a sale of just over $100K for a picture of its importance is all that impressive. The auction house had estimated $100K to $300K.

id have expected exponentially more.

boneheadandrube · #3 07-16-2024, 03:48 PM

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Originally Posted by ullmandds

id have expected exponentially more.

Heavy restoration and re-mounting puts that in a lesser catagory...look closely at the image and read the description, its not a great example.

CardPadre · #4 07-16-2024, 05:10 PM

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Originally Posted by boneheadandrube

Heavy restoration and re-mounting puts that in a lesser catagory...look closely at the image and read the description, its not a great example.

I wondered if anyone else looked at the quality and amount of restoration. The attempt at redoing the shading under his nose looks like some dirty runny snot coming out.

ETA: I can understand someone going after this, not knowing when another might become available...or maybe since it maybe did fall below expected price, would be something they could not otherwise afford. It's clearly special, but just not a great restoration. Would be a treat to see an image before any work was done.

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Rhotchkiss · #5 07-16-2024, 08:36 PM

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Originally Posted by CardPadre

I wondered if anyone else looked at the quality and amount of restoration. The attempt at redoing the shading under his nose looks like some dirty runny snot coming out.

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I would have been all over this but for the restoration. So yes.

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