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Tom Boblittthat sold the 130+ W600's in the 2002 Mastronet auction.....this was a nice windfall for this owner, huh? The 2002 lot sold in the 55K range. There were, however, only about 60-70 of them that were in the EX to NRMT range. About 30 were VG to VGEX and the other 30+ were in lower condition.
Some notes.....
I had a Wagner like the one picture. This is only the second one of them I've seen in 10+ years of watching all the W600 auctions very closely. Mine came from a Slater's Americana auction and I paid about $900 for it around 1997-1998 or so. It did, however, have a small chip in the lower right corner. This Wagner is much tougher than the uniformed Wagner. I had two different versions of the uniformed Wagner also. One had 'John Wagner' at the bottom caption and the other 'John Hans Wagner' (or Honus, can't remember.....).
I had not see this Mathewson pose before this auction.....
Someone said they were 'all from 1902' and I don't believe that to be the case. I think they have to specifically say 1902 on them to be from that timeframe and I have to believe the actual date on those is more like 1903.....
There are a couple different graphics used on the 1902's too....I don't specifically remember having both graphics on my 1902's but there is the acorn graphic and the crossed bats graphic. In the past, I'd always believed the crossed bats graphic to be from an interim period after 1902 but before the end of the run when the graphics were in white and no longer brown.
In my collection, I had many of the cabinets that were sold but some of the ones I had were not the 1902 versions, just the crossed bats versions after 1902. From looking at the photos I have of mine, almost all the photos are identical except for the McGraw.
Just recently met (via web) and conversed with the person who won the lot that I sold. Small world really as it only came up as an afterthought in conversation.