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Hal LewisOK, my bad, I should expect questions.
No, never discovered anything that disagreed with the dating if the card.
After all, given how much I paid for the card... I would have an EASY claim against PSA for a FULL REFUND of my purchase price if it turned out that they had misdated the card. As an attorney, I would have pursued THAT route if anything "unacceptable" had come up in my research. But nothing ever did.
Obviously, there will be people who say that it is not a "real" baseball card because it was not a part of a larger SET and/or was not distributed nationally.
Sure, I wish that this card DID meet those qualifications, because then it would be worth even more!
But nonetheless, it is UNDISPUTED that this is a ONE-OF-A-KIND item... regardless of whether you call it a baseball card or a trade card or a baseball trade card.
It is also the ONLY card known that features the EARLIEST known photograph of Wagner in his Louisville days.
Even if it were a scorecard or a fan or a pencil from 1897 with his picture on it... it would be valuable and people would want it.
I just don't "want" it as bad as I do the T206 Wagner. That's it. Nothing more simple than that.
SURE, I wish I had enough money to KEEP this card AND still buy every other card I want... but I ain't no Donald Trump.