Sports Collectibles

Rare Honus Wagner 1909 baseball card sold for record $2.8 million

MLB – Yahoo! Sports
September 6, 2007
MISSION VIEJO, Calif. (AP)

“The legendary T206 Honus Wagner baseball trading card is displayed June 6, 2000 in New York. This finest known example of the famed T206 Honus Wagner baseball card has been sold, a little more than six months after selling for a then-record price of $2.35 million to a California private collector. The auction company, California-based SCP Auctions Inc., has brokered the latest sale to a private collector for a record price of $2.8 million, according to a report, Thursday Sept. 6, 2007.”

“Referred to as the “Mona Lisa” of baseball cards, the almost mint-condition collectible — released in 1909 by the American Tobacco Company — was sold by Brian Seigel of Las Vegas to an unidentified Southern California collector in February. SCP Auctions was a minority owner, but David Kohler, the company’s president and CEO, said that’s no longer the case.

…The T206 baseball card features a youthful Wagner in his Pittsburgh Pirates uniform.”

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