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steve kSorry to hear about the fire. It's incredible that the t206 Wagner card survived the fire but lucky for you that it did because you might have a very valuable card there. It's interesting that t206 Wagner cards have withstood fires, floods, earthquakes, volcanos, and one was eaten by a dog and survived intact - amazing but true. There has been much discussion about this in the baseball card collecting community that possibly the t206 Wagners were treated by the printer with a special laquer or fluid of some sort to make them almost impervious to nature. Sort of the same type of fluids that the Egyptians used to preserve mummies. In any event, check out this website at http://www.brucemo.com/cards/articles/pro_grading.htm
where you can send the card to one of these grading companies that can authenticate the card for you. The card does look real to me. The burn marks appear to be consistent with that of a genuine burned t206 Wagner. Good luck!