Who Was America's First Card Collector?

[brianp-beme]

And just so this thread gets more activity, I will now throw in some T206 talk and a little controversy. In that same article John D. Wagner mentions that he met Honus Wagner in 1942 or 1943, and in regards to the T206 of him Honus told John D. that he was very opposed to smoking and that he didn't want to influence kids in that direction, so he had them stop printing the card. Mr. J. Wagner also remembered that Eddie Plank was also against smoking, and thought that perhaps these two cards were never issued to the public, citing that the Plank card in particular was quite often found with uneven margins, as if cut from the sheet by hand.

So at least later in life Honus claimed to have the printing stopped. Of course maybe that was wishful reminiscing on his part.

Brian