T206 Wagner Baseball Card to be Sold

A T206 Honus Wagner card – often called the Holy Grail or Mona Lisa of sports collectibles – will be sold as part of a huge weekend multi-estate sale planned for Nov. 22-23 by Philip Weiss Auctions. Nov. 22 will be dedicated mainly to sports memorabilia.

“This will be our greatest sports sale ever,”  Weiss said of the first day of the sale. “The Honus Wagner card, which we expect will bring $500,000-$800,000, comes from the family of the original owner and has never before been offered on the market. It is SGC graded 3, and that is the only thing keeping it from being worth much more.”  A PSA 5 Wagner card sold this summer for $1.6 million.  The highest price recorded for a Wagner is $2.8 million for a PSA 8 (near mint) copy.

The Nov. 22 auction will also feature a collection of original-owner T205 and T206 for sale, to include a highly prized Ray Demmitt error card. The Honus Wagner card was issued as part of the T206 baseball cards set (1909-1911) by the American Tobacco Company. The cards were inserted into packs of cigarettes as a promotion, but Wagner – a non-smoker – refused to allow production of his own card to continue.

As a result, a very limited number of Wagner cards were ever distributed to the public. Fewer than 100 are believed to survive today. In 1933, the card got its first assigned value ($50) in The American Card Catalog, making it the most expensive baseball card in the world at the time.

The card has become so famous that in an episode of the television series Prison Break, a thief gets five years for stealing a Honus Wagner T206 card (it was considered a felony, because of the value).  Wagner is a Hall of Famer who played 21 seasons, mostly with Pittsburgh.

T206 SAM STRANG PSA VG EX 4 NICE WELL CENTERED NO CREASES NR LK
T206 SAM STRANG PSA VG EX 4 NICE WELL CENTERED NO CREASES NR LK
Paypal   US $52.00
T206 LARRY DOYLE NY NATL PORTRAIT PSA 5 SOVEREIGN 460
T206 LARRY DOYLE NY NATL PORTRAIT PSA 5 SOVEREIGN 460
Paypal   US $168.50
T206 CLARK GRIFFITH HOFBATTING PSA 3 POLAR BEAR
T206 CLARK GRIFFITH HOFBATTING PSA 3 POLAR BEAR
Paypal   US $57.66
T206 GEORGE MANION HINDU SOUTHERN LEAGUE PSA 2 OUTSTANDING CARD
T206 GEORGE MANION HINDU SOUTHERN LEAGUE PSA 2 OUTSTANDING CARD
Paypal   US $282.00
T206 Walter Johnson Hands at Chest psa pr 1 polar bear
T206 Walter Johnson Hands at Chest psa pr 1 polar bear
Paypal   US $185.99
1909 11 T206 Piedmont Baseball Frank Smith Chicago Boston PSA 3 VG Card
1909 11 T206 Piedmont Baseball Frank Smith Chicago Boston PSA 3 VG Card
Paypal   US $102.50
1909 T206 JOHNNY BATES BOSTON PSA SWEET CAPORAL FACT 649 OVERPRINT RARE
1909 T206 JOHNNY BATES BOSTON PSA SWEET CAPORAL FACT 649 OVERPRINT RARE
Paypal   US $24.50
Jim Pastorius T206 PSA graded 1
Jim Pastorius T206 PSA graded 1
Paypal   US $35.00
1909 T206 Piedmont 309 Christy Mathewson PSA 2 Good
1909 T206 Piedmont 309 Christy Mathewson PSA 2 Good
Paypal   US $455.00
TY COBB T206 BAT OFF SHOULDER 1909 1911 PSA1 DETROIT ORIGINAL
TY COBB T206 BAT OFF SHOULDER 1909 1911 PSA1 DETROIT ORIGINAL
Paypal   US $345.00
1909 T206 FRANK SMITH CHICAGO PSA 6
1909 T206 FRANK SMITH CHICAGO PSA 6
Paypal   US $495.00
T206 Piedmont ED Willett PSA 2 Detroit
T206 Piedmont ED Willett PSA 2 Detroit
Paypal   US $26.90
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