He is ranked eighth on the all-time hits list with 3, Walter Johnson and Christy Mathewson rounded out Cooperstown's inaugural class. When Wagner's card was introduced in , tobacco companies had been inserting stiff paper into cigarette and tobacco boxes for nearly 50 years as a way to protect the nicotine products.
That year, the American Tobacco Company released its "white border" baseball cards inside 16 different brands, including Sweet Caporal, American Beauty and Carolina Brights. A complete white border set contains different illustrations, some with the same player in different poses. To date, there are more than 4, Ty Cobb cards from the series that have been graded.
But there are only a few dozen Wagners known to exist. The mystery of why there are so few Wagners as compared to other players is the greatest debate within the sports card community -- something collectors love to chew over. One theory suggests the Wagner printing plate broke during production.
Another suggests a copyright dispute between the artist and the tobacco company. The most popular and romantic theory, though, has been put forward by Wagner's family and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City which has a T Wagner in its collection.
They say that Wagner didn't want to promote smoking tobacco to children and asked the company to pull his card from production. Other historians remain skeptical of that theory. A more cynical theory suggests Wagner wanted more money in return for using his name, image and likeness.
Wagner was indeed a savvy businessman. In , he agreed to put his name on a Louisville Slugger line of bats, making him the first professional athlete to sign an endorsement deal. Even though everyone smoked or chewed, the guy who owned the Pirates and the manager of the Pirates -- both of whom were big influences on Wagner -- disdained cigarettes.
By , pioneering card collector Jefferson Burdick was systematically cataloguing some 30, cards he collected in his lifetime.
In his seminal work, "The United States Card Collectors Catalog," it was Burdick who gave the "white border" cards a new designation: T, for the th release of tobacco cards.
There are more than 30 different types of Mantle cards to collect. All three rely on a grading system, with 10 most often representing gem mint condition. Some companies offer grades for autographs added to the card, as well as "subgrading," which gives additional numerical grades for edges, corners, centering and surface.
Instead, postwar collectors yearn for the Topps, with its turquoise background and comic-book-yellow bat resting gently on Mantle's shoulder as he looks off into the distance. At first glance, they seem identical. But a closer look reveals that one card is off-center, its turquoise background pushed to the left.
As a result, PSA graded that card a 4. The other is well-centered, but there are microscopic wrinkles on the turquoise near Mantle's hand and along his jawline.
Yellow ink bleeds out below his facsimile signature. A speck of paper has flaked off from Mantle's cap. While the centering issue on the other card is more obvious, these tiny defects resulted in a lower grade of 3 by PSA. Grading is "the lifeblood" of the card industry, according to Rick Probstein, CEO of Probstein, a consigner and one of eBay's largest sellers of sports cards and memorabilia.
Similar to the T Wagner, the mythology of the card is also key. In the s, dealers returned unsold cards to manufacturers to make room for the following year's set. Published June 14, T Wagner Poll. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. They should be able to tell pretty quick. Otherwise, checking out PSA psadna. I hve honus wagner card with his pic on front and wagner Pittsburgh at the bottom. I have a few Tobacco Reproduction cards including the Honus wagner, where do i find info on the reproductions and what their worth is?
My name is jason and I just have found the holy grail of cards…the t bonus Wagner sheet corporal. This is an amazing find!!!!!!!
It is not a reprint or counyerfiet!!! This is the real deal its truelly amazing…I am a card expert and have spent hours researching under magnification and every other test…wanted to get a second opinion from a t card expert and and his conclusion is per cent authentic so I got a third from a print expert and his opinion is percent real.
I line in sparks Nevada and guess I was blessed to find honus Wagner…. I have the holy grailof cards nnow just deciding to keep ot1. I guess the next step is to take it to a local baseball card place. Then who knows. How much does using PSA cost? Thanks for any information. Kindest regards. My honus wagnor has a yellow box on the back that says it worth 20, then says why honus took his picture off tabacoo cards. Lol I find it highly strange that 10 of the 50 something Wagner owners have commented on this article.
Guaranteed not one of them is authentic. My sentiments exactly gentlemen.. Very very unkikely if not a guarantee that not a single card of the 10 mentioned here are authentic. I just found 3 rare cards in mint condition, what do I need to do to get graded and put up for auction. Name required. Mail will not be published required.
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