1936 V355 World Wide Gum ?

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Jon:

Thank you for presenting this information. Besides being very interesting and likely prompting further research, this could have a big impact on a huge card in the hobby, the Joe DiMaggio from this series. Always believed to be a 1936 issue, most advanced collectors singled out this DiMaggio card to be the premier rookie card choice amongst his other 1936 Goudey cards, which were mostly all oversize compared to more traditional cards. In recent times, this card has climbed well into five-figures with high-grade examples even reaching 6-figures. If further research does wind up ultimately dating this set to 1937, this DiMaggio is really no longer a rookie card then. How much impact does that have on this card value in the future?

This scenario has played out in the past a number of times and those cards originally considered to be rookie cards ultimately were not and subsequently, values dropped quite dramatically. Probably a long way to go here before we reach that point but knowing this, would the WWG DiMaggio card be one that you would invest a huge sum of money into at today’s prices?