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Posted By: Julie Vognar

1) The pictured card is in a PSA holder marked


T206
Honus Wagner NM-MT 8
McNall/ Gretzky
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On the facing page is a list, in reverse order of prices realized, of the 26 highest recorded sales of significant baseball cards at public auction. The first two read:

1) T206 Wagner* PSA 8 NM-MT 1996 $640,600
2) T206 Wagner* PSA 8 NM-MT 1991 $451,000

It is explained that the asterisks indicate that these two entries represent the same card, offered at different times, "the famous Gretzky T206 Wagner,
which is offered in this auction." Among the following cards, 7 are listed with no grade; the rest with grades.

"NOTE: When this T2306 Wagner was first offered at public auction in 1991 by Southeby's as the centerpiece of the famous Jim Copeland Baseball Card collection iot sold for $451,000...,.in presenting this information (as well aw the additiobnal historical pricing information in the table above, Robert Edward Auctions is not suggesting to potential bidders that the Wagner card should be valued at a simiplar (or higher of lower) multiple of its 1991 value."