Another T-206 Wagner surfaces in Michigan, SURE!!!!!

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Posted By: mabjae

The latest from the Web site of WILX-TV 10:

Sports experts from around the country have been emailing us after watching our broadcast of the Honus Wagner card found by a local man.
"In case nobody else has told you, that card is a fake and a poor one at that," said Eric Beachley of Virginia. " Any advanced collector would know that the T206 card of Wagner has either a Sovereign back or a Piedmont 150 back. This common 1970's reprint had a Piedmont 350-460 back."
Ray Lumbert completed a purchase of the card last week for $50,000 is cash and sports memorabilia. He tells us he bought it from a man who found it in a kitchen ceiling last spring.
The card went up for auction on Sunday in Holt but did not sell. Employees of the auction company A-OK auctioneers would not tell us how many bids it received and how much they were for.
Lumbert is still trying to have the card examined for authenticity. he has contacted auction houses in both New York and Los Angeles.

As someone who works for Gannett, the parent company of that paper, I am ashamed that that story saw the light of day. It looks like this was just slapped together: 1 source, repeating the word "card" in the headline and the deck, ending the headline with the word "of", "selling" and "auctioning" do not have the same meaning - this is just an awful story.