Henry Reccius HONUS WAGNER card

[iggyman]

Neat outside the hobby find. I really have to start visiting second-hand stores more often. Can you imagine seeing this card in a thrift store and calmly offering to buy 3 pair of used shoes if they throw in the card as part of the purchase.

Any thoughts or observations (any guesses on the hammer price.....)?


http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/...r-sale-634696/

http://www.lelands.com/Home/HonusWagner

Lovely Day...

[Bicem]

cool find/story.

[g_vezina_c55]

impatient to see the auction result

[ullmandds]

huh...article says 3 are known to exist? I was only aware of the one Hal used to own? Great story though...definitely exciting to see another survive!!!

[bcbgcbrcb]

I know that a lot of research was done regarding the actual date of issue of this card. Can anyone fill me in on the latest?

[bbcard1]

This is an example of a find I think is very cool and something I concur with being significant, but at the same time it doesn't bother me in the least not to have one.

[e107collector]

Originally Posted by ullmandds

huh...article says 3 are known to exist? I was only aware of the one Hal used to own? Great story though...definitely exciting to see another survive!!!

Peter, I agree with you. Hal had the only example know.

I wonder if they are somehow thinking of the Henry Reccius cigar box as the second example?

Tony

[bcbgcbrcb]

I know that a lot of research was done regarding the actual date of issue of this card. Can anyone fill me in on the latest?

[drc]

The small town where the card owner lives, Port Townsend WA, is where my sister lives. It's a nice place.

[dstraate]

I've never seen that, but it's a gorgeous card. Why the Authentic rating?

[ullmandds]

I believe the 2 known to exist are both graded A due to the lack of knowledge about them.

[drc]

I don't recall if the other one was graded a number or was graded authentic. I assume it's so rare, they're just playing it safe.

[ullmandds]

i stand corrected...it looks like the other was graded PSA 1! Not sure why this one got an A...who graded it?

[SilverBall67]

Curious thoughts always arised when considering a circa date for the Honus Wagner (Henry Reccius Card). Please refer to this link :

http://thelibrary.org/blogs/article.cfm?aid=1065

Right hand side of the Reccius Card reads: ~ HOME TELEPHONE 5807 ~
(XXXX is a four digit telephone number). As per research done, 4 digit telephone numbers were not used until 1905.

[steve B]

Originally Posted by SilverBall67

Curious thoughts always arised when considering a circa date for the Honus Wagner (Henry Reccius Card). Please refer to this link :

http://thelibrary.org/blogs/article.cfm?aid=1065

Right hand side of the Reccius Card reads: ~ HOME TELEPHONE 5807 ~
(XXXX is a four digit telephone number). As per research done, 4 digit telephone numbers were not used until 1905.

That only applies to Springfield. A much smaller city than Pittsburg.

The adoption of three and four number phone numbers varied by the size of the local exchange. So Pittsburg could have had four digit numbers much earlier.
http://www.privateline.com/Telephone...A/numbers.html

Steve B

[steve B]

The newspaper shown here

http://news.google.com/newspapers?ni...rontpage&hl=en

Is from 1900 and shows a four digit number in the Urling Bros ad at the lower right of page 12.

Steve B

[Baseball Rarities]

Louisville definitely had 4 digit telephone numbers in the 1890's. Here is one for the "Italian-Swiss Colony Wine Co." from September of 1899. I have seen many that are even earlier.

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...arRange&page=1

[Leon]

Interesting thread. This is one of those type mysteries that keeps the hobby fun for me.