This T206 Honus Wagner Will Be Sold At Auction No Matter What.

[t206hound]

REA has ended, and I had asked the question if anyone thought it would go over $200K (since the pre-restoration sale was $222K and restoration costs were $14.5K).

Well, it fell well short at $160K (before BP)... any thoughts on this?
http://bid.robertedwardauctions.com/...x?itemid=18282

[E93]

Originally Posted by t206hound

REA has ended, and I had asked the question if anyone thought it would go over $200K (since the pre-restoration sale was $222K and restoration costs were $14.5K).

Well, it fell well short at $160K (before BP)... any thoughts on this?
http://bid.robertedwardauctions.com/...x?itemid=18282

Bummer for the consignor.

[honus94566]

I was sad to see that they "restored" that card. Now its unoriginal and fake looking, so I was glad to see the card sold for less than expected. Hopefully this will help discourage this type of modification in the future.

[Ladder7]

Sad, looks like suzanne summers... How much would it cost to remove the prosthetics?

[rdwyer]

I'll start the bidding at 99 cents. :-)

[ls7plus]

Well, looks like I was off by about twelve grand, but still pretty substantial bucks paid. I do think we'll see more of this. Someone just bought the 1907 Wolverine News Cobb batting position with a big chunk missing for $400 on e-bay, a pretty tough rookie card of Tyrus, and my bet is that he already has or will be looking for a common with similar front shading to use as a donor to fill in the missing piece, as the back of the cards are all the same, at least when the value rises to make it more than worthwhile to have the work done by a professional paper restoration expert. Frankly, the thought occurred to me to do the aame thing, but REA occupied most of my focus during the time the Cobb card sold. Let's see what transpires.

Larry

[vargha]

It looks fine to me. But since I (and I'm assuming most of those who post here) don't have the money for such a card, what I think doesn't really matter much. My feeling is that most of the negative feedback is the same old "purist" POV that comes out often enough here, as if there is only one TRUE way to collect vintage cards. Personally, I think it looked like crap before.