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Posted By: barrysloate

James- you make some good points. Frank Nagy was one of the oldest and most famous collectors in the country. He died several years ago and Mastro Auctions recently sold his collection. Getting back to provenance, I think it has meaning when it is associated with some of the most important and highest quality collectables in their respective field. The Harris collection is a good example, since it is understood that when assembling his T206 set he went after only the very finest examples known. So if you have a PSA-9 example from his collection (I know there are some side issues here) there is a chance you may own the finest known example of that card. That is a worthwhile provenance. However, while Frank Nagy was a legendary collector, I'm not sure having his name attached to a VG E92 common has any meaning because you or I or anyone could find its equal on ebay nearly every day of the week. And Nagy must have had 100,000 cards, and they weren't all important.