T206 Wagner value after Mastro confesses to cutting it

[BengoughingForAwhile]

Originally Posted by CW

I was toying around with some ideas for a custom t-shirt for last year's national convention in Cleveland. I ultimately went with a design based on my avatar, but this was one I was contemplating and scrapped...

Awesome!!! I want one!!! Print a few hundred and we can all wear them around at next years national!

[BeanTown]

Originally Posted by BengoughingForAwhile

Awesome!!! I want one!!! Print a few hundred and we can all wear them around at next years national!

+1

[clydepepper]

I definitely would buy more than one!


GREAT IDEA !

Let's just hope that having 'PSA' on it would not cause legal grief.
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[ullmandds]

i want one too...make mine xl!

[Rickyy]

It will be interesting if the current owner decides to sell it and it goes through a auction house how the slab will be presented. I assume the value could increase simply because of the publicity, it's still a valuable card no doubt. I'm interested in seeing what is going to happen to the slab and the grade and how it will be presented back to the hobby. Value aside this is the supposed flagship card (or one of them) of our hobby and of this particular grading company.

Ricky Y

[CW]

LOL! Well, if I get motivated over the next few days I'll see if I can create one on Zazzle and then everyone can order. Too funny...

[mark evans]

My guess is that the Gretzky Wagner will begin to taper off in value, perhaps with its next sale. But, I've felt this way about vintage cards generally for some time due to aging baby boomers (like me) and possibly a general economic downturn [This is not intended as a political statement in any way, just a fearful concern.]. I suspect that the facts don't (yet) bear me out on this but don't follow auctions closely enough to know.

Can't help but weighing in on music reference. Just to show how musical taste is so subjective, and with all respect (seriously) to others, I've never been able to develop a taste for heavy metal (or rap for that matter). It seems to me that pop music, with some notable exceptions (Avett Brothers, Mumford & Sons), has been heading downhill since the 70s (Springsteen, Doobies, Elton, Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Billy Joel, et al.). On the other hand, some music strikes me as timeless (Ahmad Jamal, Leadbelly, lots of other jazz and blues).
Never much cared for most classical music either although many folks I respect (including my wife) think most highly of it.

[Peter_Spaeth]

And the 70s were downhill compared to the 60s. That stuff you cite was mostly derivative.

[bcornell]

Originally Posted by mark evans

My guess is that the Gretzky Wagner will begin to taper off in value, perhaps with its next sale.

Mark is being kind. This T206 Wagner is now radioactive and will never sell for anything like the $2.8mm price that Ken Kendrick paid, at least not while all of us are above ground. You could buy a legit one for far less and not have to deal with the stink emanating from this card.

Thanks, Bill Mastro, for your large contribution in destroying the hobby.

Bill

[pokerplyr80]

Originally Posted by BengoughingForAwhile

Awesome!!! I want one!!! Print a few hundred and we can all wear them around at next years national!

Agreed, assuming I can go to the national I would wear that shirt. I'll take one either way if you make them.