Hocus Pocus With Honus: $2.8 Million Wagner Soccer Card Found To Possess Been Altered, Which Somehow Increases Its Worth

When you get down to it, can there be any longer valuable real estate in the world than this 1909 Honus Wagner baseball card? Sure, youad pay a great deal for plot in Monte Carlo or Beverly Hills. But the T206 Wagner card shown here last sold for $2.8 million, and soon could go for more than $3 million. So considering that its dimensions are (betting) 2.5 inches x 3.5 inches, that makes it worth, um, $342,852 per square inch. If my r is correct.* Not really Elin Nordegren lives on real estate worth that much. Even with Action Comics No. 1, the initial look of Superman, you got a much larger area with a lot of pages inside (one copy sold for $2.16 million in 2011). The Wagner card is just the face of the Pirates Hall of Famer on the leading by having an ad for Piedmont Tobacco on the back (and that's why there have been so few developed. Itas said that Wagner objected to being linked to a tobacco product). The most popular Wagner T206 is recognized as the Gretzky Card, as it was once owned by Wayne Gretzky. In 2007, it was bought by Arizona Diamondbacks owner Ken Kendrick for $2.8 million, breaking the record for priciest baseball card. Chicago memorabilia dealer Bill Mastro come upon the card in 1985, buying it for $25,000 from a small series. He offered it to Gretzky, in 1991, for $410,000. It was sold by gretzky to WalMart in 1995 for $500,000. Its way was eventually made by it to Kendrick. But during court on numerous fraud charges (including attempting to sell a fake lock of Elvis Presleyas hair), Mastro on Tuesday admitted that he trimmed the card after he got it. Shaping rare cards makes them seem more pristine, thus raising the worth. But when itas known to have been tampered with, that decreases the value. Often. London Daily Mail: Despite the adjustment, value is lost by the so-called aGretzky carda wonat. Actually, it the worthiness could go up because of this of the news headlines, Steve Levine, of Goldin Auctions in New Jersey, told MailOnline. aI think in this industry and activity, greater the story, the greater. Also, especially if you can examine it,a he said. aWe all know that this has happened with that card. Now itas the popular Bill Mastro-trimmed-Grezky-Honus Wagner card,a Levin said. Levin said the Gretzky card might easily retrieve $3 million can it be were sold now. Yowza. And so we observe star works. Despite inanimate objects, infamy and fame are similar. * = it rarely is.

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