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Old 10-21-2023, 03:13 PM
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Default Second Best Honus Wagner Portrait Card

The T206 Wagner is the King of all Cards. It contains the Horner Portrait Photo of Wagner in his baseball uniform.

There are 10 different Horner Wagner-Uniform portrait cards, listed and pictured below.

T206
W600 Types III & IV
D322 Tip Top
E90-2
E104-2
E103
M116 Blue
M116 Pastel
Colgan's
WUNC (not mine)

If you could only have one of these cards for your collection, which would you choose and why?

Personally, I choose the D322 Tip Top because (i) its a an almost exact resemblance to the T206, especially with "Pittsburgh" on the chest, (ii) his/its portrait is facing left like the T206, (iii) its orange background reminds me of the T206, and (iv) its very rare with less than 70 graded.

As an aside, there are 3 other Wagner "portrait cards": The W600 Type I & II, the E107, and the 1914 Cracker Jack. But I did not include these because I wanted to keep the discussion to the proxies for the T206.
Attached Images
File Type: jpg T206 Honus Wagner - Front.jpg (92.5 KB, 529 views)
File Type: jpg W600 Wagner Uniform, Type IV - Front.jpg (76.7 KB, 520 views)
File Type: jpg 1910 Tip Top Bread - Honus Wagner - Front.jpg (38.0 KB, 526 views)
File Type: jpg E90-2 Wagner, SGC 4 - Front.jpg (89.7 KB, 527 views)
File Type: jpg E104-2 Wagner, Blank - Front (1.5).jpg (196.7 KB, 531 views)
File Type: jpg E103 Wagner - Front.jpg (97.1 KB, 518 views)
File Type: jpg M116 Wagner Blue - Front.jpg (60.0 KB, 527 views)
File Type: jpg M116 Wagner Pastel - Front.jpg (90.8 KB, 516 views)
File Type: jpg 1909 Colgan's Chips - Wagner - Sqaure Proof - Front.jpg (74.8 KB, 521 views)
File Type: jpg IMG_0253.jpg (173.0 KB, 517 views)

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