How many Wags?

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Ostensibly the percentage should be the same as any other major star. Unfortunately I don't think we have much in the way of production numbers on say the 4 Cobb cards. You could also argue that it might be a higher percentage because it was known pretty early on by Burdick etc that it was tough, so probably less likely to have been destroyed/lost at an earlier date than most cards.

Just to make up numbers, if 100,000 Red Cobbs were produced and there are 5,000 left today I would expect that 5% of the Wagner's survived also putting the original number at somewhere around 1,000. I just pulled those numbers out of the air to illustrate the logic though. You might also have to deal with back/factory info to account for differing production runs, though the Wags all have common backs AFAIK

[rats60]

I think it was far less than any of those choices. We have articles from 1909 that say kids were looking for that card as well as for Cobb. However, where there are articles talking about people finding Cobb, there are none that I know about finding a Wagner. The card wasn't even known to the hobby until 1930. If there were thousands or even hundreds, surely a few collectors would know someone who found a Wagner.

The card was instantly the most valuable baseball card when discovered. When most cards were a penny or two, Wagner was $50.00. People have a tendency to hold on to valuable items. During WWII when people were recycling paper, people would be much more likely to have kept a Wagner than any other t206, even Cobb. In my opinion at least 50% of Wagners still exist.

[Republicaninmass]

Also, t206s are plentiful. Every major auction in the last 50 years have huge groups of them. If there were that many more Wagners, there would be more known copies. Surprised there are 46 known.

[mrreality68]

I think the only reason it feels like there are more and the only reason why we see them more is because owners of those cards now want to profit off the recent spikes in prices.
This is happening with a lot of cards that we rarely saw hit auction in the last 5 to 10 years but with the new higher prices people are taking the profits.

[Snapolit1]

Thought for a moment we were discussing Wives and Girlfriends. Mildly disappointed.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/a...aft-picks.html

[Bobbycee]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

Thought for a moment we were discussing Wives and Girlfriends. Mildly disappointed.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/a...aft-picks.html

Me too. Anyway, I vote for Paulina Gretzky. If I were married to her, I'd be using my Woods all the time..