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Posted By: Alan

but it all honesty, did you ever really think it would sell? i think of the listing as an advertisement, i.e. "just so you card collectors know, i have this card." they set a pretty high reserve on that card and then if they got lucky and it sold, then they would be happy. but now at least, people know about the card. if you are trying to "create" the next t206 honus wagner, then you need to get the PR/spin/hype machine working early. See, ever since I was a kid, I knew what the Honus Wagner card was. Growing up, if someone asked me what the most valuable card was, I could tell them that it was the Honus Wagner card. heck, they used to sell reprints of the card in my elementary school. some company, the name of which escapes me now, used to have a book catalog that they handed out to us at school, and we could go home and together with our parents we could order books. invariably, EVERY kid would want the baseball card book because it had reprints of famous cards in it. so you'd place your order for some books and if you were lucky, your parent bought you the wagner reprint too. come dec, the books/wagner would be delivered. let's be honest. there are PLENTY of cards scarcer than the wagner. the story told about why the wagner card is so rare is an outright lie. it is a LEGEND. and you can't kill a legend. the wagner card sits in the hall of fame. to me, forever, the king of all cards will forever be the t206 wagner. and that's that.