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Originally Posted by Yoda
About 20 some odd years ago, Lew had an Anson in uniform in one of his auctions. I remember talking to him about it. Believe it might have fetched
around 50k or so. Of course, the card was reputedly Anson's head but another player's uniformed body.
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Lew said that in the last issue of The Old Judge (January 1994), he gave a value of $18,000 for the OJ Anson in uniform. That's quite an increase from $1000 nine years earlier in the first issue of TOJ, yet not as high as it got a few years later. The auction you're thinking of was in 2001, and the Anson in uniform went for $66,503:
https://www.psacard.com/articles/art...03-winning-bid