1910 Honus Wagner

[sgreen58]

We have a 1910 Honus Wagner Tobacco Card with a picture of Honus Wagner on front with Wagner, Pittsburg on the bottom of card with yellow background..him in a grey Pittsburg team shirt..on the back it reads at top in red square box.."HONUS WAGNER VALUE $35,000.00 1910 Tobacco Card. And on a white background below that it reads.."While other cards may be scarcer (about 20 exist), none is more valuable. Honus Wagner, who was anti-smoking, did not want anyone to buy tobacco products just to obtain his picture on a card. He legally forced the tobacco firms to take his card off the market, but some cards got into circulation."

This card is in mint condition. We would love to know if it has any value. Please advise.

[seablaster]

Welcome to the site.

What you have is a reprint of one of the most prominent cards in the hobby, the T206 Honus Wagner. Being a reprint, is has a negligible value.

[jb217676]

That is a great card, would loooooove to see some photos. You're in rare company if you own a Honus!

[Leon]

Originally Posted by jb217676

That is a great card, would loooooove to see some photos. You're in rare company if you own a Honus!

quit. ...

..it is by far the most common reprint of the most famous baseball card. That mistake happens daily if not hourly.....It has no real value.

[JustinD]

Well I think a google search would have told you this answer 20 times over... not much.

What I can say is the time people were using that 35k value was around the mid 80's, so you have likely a 30 year old reprint. I actually tried to locate a date for this printing as the back printing is so identifiable but was unable.

I will say that a reprint is worth far less than a dollar to someone who wants one as the number of Wagner reprints is likely greater that the print number of any other card in existence. I would put this on the far lowest end of that spectrum as most would want a realistic reprint to fill a binder spot very few can afford to fill and this is not.

Not trying to be mean to you as any question is fair, but I admit to laughing quite hard when I saw this reply on another chatroom to this exact same question -

I was going through an old box of papers, and I found a Constitution of the United States of America. How can I tell if this is a replica, or one of the originals? I'm told the originals are quite valuable. Mine says on the back: this is a replica. If it were the original Constitution, it would be worth over 1 billion dollars on the open market.

[steve B]

If it's the reprint I'm thinking of -Yes, a 70's maybe 80's reprint, but one from a collectors set that was (I think) all T206s. I'm not sure if it was the whole set or not, but I have a handful of them but not the Wagner. It came a few different ways. As cards from a collectors set I find them interesting, and pick them up when I see them cheap. They're not as common as you'd think.

Now the CMC reprints and the more recent ones presumably from China.......

Steve B

[EvilKing00]

Originally Posted by sgreen58

We have a 1910 Honus Wagner Tobacco Card with a picture of Honus Wagner on front with Wagner, Pittsburg on the bottom of card with yellow background..him in a grey Pittsburg team shirt..on the back it reads at top in red square box.."HONUS WAGNER VALUE $35,000.00 1910 Tobacco Card. And on a white background below that it reads.."While other cards may be scarcer (about 20 exist), none is more valuable. Honus Wagner, who was anti-smoking, did not want anyone to buy tobacco products just to obtain his picture on a card. He legally forced the tobacco firms to take his card off the market, but some cards got into circulation."

This card is in mint condition. We would love to know if it has any value. Please advise.

Lets see a scan of the card......

[Leon]

Couldn't find a 35k valued one but did find the equally impressive 100k one...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/AUTHORIZED-R...oAAOSwEjFXdK-6

Originally Posted by EvilKing00

Lets see a scan of the card......

[njdunkin1]

I was able to speak with the OP via email, who then sent me scans of the cards. It is unfortunately a reproduction! Never hurts to ask, I suppose. Cool card either way.

[sycks22]

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