Colorado public sale home sells restored card for seven figures.
The legendary public sale path of Honus Wagner’s T206 baseball card took one other step ahead with a sale from Mile Excessive Card Firm.
This time, the copy up for grabs was a Candy Caporal again model, which nabbed $1.98 million within the firm’s Spring 2025 Public sale, which closed on April 26.
The cardboard, as described by Mile Excessive, didn’t earn a grade from PSA because of alterations and restoration. The Colorado-based public sale home famous in its public sale description that the Wagner was first cleaned up with hand chopping by its authentic proprietor, earlier than getting subsequent work executed. “Since that alteration precluded the cardboard from receiving a numerical grade, one of many earlier homeowners determined to enhance the aesthetics of the cardboard by having the floor restored, eradicating the blemishes to make the Carl Horner-created picture Wagner the focus of the piece as soon as once more,” the corporate defined.
The sale was a second go-around for Mile Excessive with this Wagner. The corporate beforehand bought the cardboard in August 2023, with a realized value of $1.968 million. The public sale home additionally bought the “Charlie Sheen” Wagner in March 2022 for simply over $3 million.
Jon Waldman is a Winnipeg-based author. He has written for Beckett, Go GTS, Canadian Sports activities Collector, and a number of other different interest shops over his twenty years within the interest. His expertise additionally consists of two books on sports activities playing cards and memorabilia. Join with Jon on Twitter at @jonwaldman.
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