I’ve highlighted the history of a few T206 Wagners on the blog. Here’s another, graded 2 by PSA, with an interesting history from raw to Mastro to Memory Lane.
The picture above is from Mastro’s September 2000 catalog; the card sold for $74,918. Here’s the card and full description.
Note the reference to the PSA 8 Wanger I highlighted in a post called Memorabilia Madness.
The T206Resource, which numbers this particular Wagner card as number 28, includes this photo of it in raw form (though it could be a cropped scan of the graded card), so it was likely graded around the time of the Mastro auction.
Update from the original post (based on my note in the comments) later in the day on July 19, 2024: The PSA Flip type (design) with the Collectors Universe hologram on the back didn’t come out until around 1999/2000, no more than a year before the Mastro Auction.
This Wagner was then consigned through Memory Lane, who tried to sell it for $775k via an eBay Buy-it-Now listing in January 2012 before selling it in May 2012 for $654,500 and again in May 2017 for $600,000.
PS, the other T206 Wagner that has been highlighted on the blog is Frank Nagy’s (Wagner 12 on the T206Resource).
If anyone has any more pre-graded historical information about Wagner 28, please let me know.
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Why is there uncertainty over when the card was graded. Can’t grading companies include this in their database?
I’m sure they could, that said, the PSA Flip Type (Design) with the Collectors Universe hologram on the back didn’t come out until around 1999/2000; the time of the Mastro auction.