The Card - unsettled questions

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Posted By: Jim

I suppose this predates my looking in on this board, but a couple months back I read the O'Keeffe book "The Card..." and I had some lingering doubts about some of the tell-all aspects of the story behind the "Gretsky" Wagner.

Basically, if the card was supposedly cut from a printer's sheet in a Long Island strip mall as O'Keefe claimed, what happened to the rest of the sheet? The guy who first sold the card for $20k claimed he was having financial difficulties and let it go because he needed the cash (it was a library book long ago returned so I can't recall his name). But if this guy did in fact have a printer's sheet, there would have been multiple Wagners on the sheet right? - when you see miscut cards, the same subject's name appears at the top of the card and this would be the only practical way to print them. So a sheet of uncut cards would have as many Wagners as it had rows. If the guy had a sheet and was in financial trouble, why didn't he cut more Wagners out and sell those? In other words, why haven't we seen a handful of NM cards come on the market in the last 15 years?

On the other hand, I recently happened upon a BIN from someone in Little Rock with a "jumbo" Wagner asking something like $2.5m.

All in all, the story in the book didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.

Anyone else who has read the book (or has an opinion in any event) come away with the same sense.

Just curious.