Goldin Auction - Honus Wagner “Rookie Card”

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I just watched a YouTube video this afternoon which made reference to the recently completed Goldin Auction with a large number of high-end, pre-war baseball cards. One of the biggest cards was a PSA encapsulated 1897-99 Henry Reccius Cigars Honus Wagner “Rookie Card”. If I remember correctly, the card did not meet reserve and went unsold despite a high bid of $875K. This immediately brought back memories of this card being discussed on Net54 more than a decade ago and how the dating by PSA was incorrect and the actual issue date had to be during the early 1900’s at best and possibly as late as 1918 or so. Low and behold, I found the Net54 thread, here is the link:

https://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=196820

It’s insane to me that bidders ran this card up to that level, I wonder how many did not realize the discrepancy in the date of issue. More towards the end of the description, Goldin does allude to the fact that some believe that the issue date of this card could be late 1900’s but then reverts back to most likely being a 1897-00 issue. Am I missing something, has there been more recent information that dates the card to the late 1890’s or is that date still believed to be misinformation?