I sold a T-206 Wagner ....25 years ago!

[Cardboard Junkie]

Yes, you have described the other Wagner that was in the auction with mine. I was told that it was "pulled and wasn't available now" I remember having the catalog and the other wagner was on the cover. Mine entered the auction too late to be pictured. The gallery was very grateful to have mine to sell seeing that they had lost thier big draw. I think they only had mine for a week or two before the auction.
Dave

[joeadcock]

David

Do you have a photo of your card before you gave it to the auction house? Would be interested in seeing it.

[ruth-gehrig]

yes would love to see it or a copy of the original auction catalog

[Cardboard Junkie]

No, I don't have a picture of that card. I consigned it to them too late to be included in thier catalog. I believe my brother has a picture of us holding the card but at such a distance you can't see any details.
S. C. D. wrote an article about a few of my cards at the time my T cards and extreme rarities like the Glendale Houtteman card and uncataloged one of a kind cabinets etc. dave.

[barrysloate]

The seller claims he sold his Wagner in 1987, but the DuMouchelles sale Corey is citing was 1991. That auction had the most comprehensive collection of baseball books the hobby has ever seen. It was consigned to them because the family lived nearby. Never in the history of auctions has an auction company known less about the material they were selling. They never did one iota of research, and got nearly every description wrong. But most of the books still did well in spite of the simply dreadful catalog.

But those Wagners in the 1991 sale weren't real, and when it was pointed out to the auction house, their response was they didn't care, and the buyers didn't seem to care either. You have to love it!

[benjulmag]

Barry is quite correct. When the second Wagner was substituted, at the viewing thre was quite a scene when a number of the people there emphatically told the owner of the auction house that the second Wagner was absolutely positively a fake, and they gave their reasons why. Yet the card was sold anyway. Some years prior SCD I believe published an issue with a repro Wagner inserted, a darn good one as repros go. And as I remember it was that repro that was sold.

[Mikehealer]

What happened with the reprint sale? Did it go through?