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Originally Posted by BillyCoxDodgers3B
At least three reasons for my opinion. I'm forgetting a fourth.
1. The 52T Mantle has never been a rookie card, yet... And for DiMaggio, the WWG may now apparently be his equivalent to that.
2. As someone already mentioned, other 1936 issues are oversized.
3. This card is too iconic to lose sustained value based on such findings. (Yes, points one and three are pretty much the same thing! Wish I could remember the other factor I thought of last night.)
Its value naturally diminishes if handled with nacho fingers and one fails to deftly lick it off. 
While I'm not comparing the two cards, if a stash of 10 (let's just say low grade) Wagners was discovered and they all hit the market simultaneously, it wouldn't dampen value in the slightest, would it? Maybe a little at the time of initial sale, but that would quickly fade afterward. Then again, maybe it wouldn't. The added attention from such a find might even increase value not too much down the road. It makes me wonder what would happen if ten PSA 10 52 Mantles were discovered/sold all at once. I'm sure both these scenarios have previously been discussed to death; I don't read through everything on the main page.) |
1. The 52T Mantle is the most recognizable card in the hobby. 99.9% of hobbyist's, or more, know that card. Far less than 1% of the hobby (including all collectors) knows the '36 WWG Dimaggio.
2. Oversized cards are only a tad bit less collected, in our space. There are some other 1936 Dimaggios that aren't oversized (the 1936 Sport Stamps, for one).
3. The 36 WWG is mostly only iconic to us vintage/pre-war collectors.
Thus, my position remains, if the 36WWG is found to be a 37 WWG Dimaggio, the value goes down. How much is hard to say.