Honus Wagner PSA 10 ?!?!

[TNP777]

this, friends, is an example of early 20th century prospecting. This is why we play the game.

 

[markakis8]

Wow there were really that many cards? I thought he found like 30

 

[TNP777]

it's a 30-card set

 

[MansGame]

Wow... just wow... I wouldn't know what to do.

The ESPN article said they are splitting up the cards and money between everyone named in the aunts will? or just including the 20 cousins at some level?....... Who got which cards? How do you exactly "split" that up? Selling over 2 or 3 years... LOL sounds like it could get :twisted:

 

[nyc3]

front page of yahooo is huge for them

 

[dp33]

Amazing find of course, but I don't get why there are quite a few non-mint cards mixed in. Why so many 2.5 Hans Wagners? Why are the majority of the George Mullins 5s?

 

[Randy Shields]

I spoke with a friend of mine last night and we discussed this find. He is an avid T206 collector and he said after having discussions with others who collect from that era, that it's an interesting possibility that these were cards that salesman would bring in to give to the owner's of these small retail shops in order to pass them out to customers as incentives for them to buy they're products.
It's possible that this particular retailer never passed them out, threw them in a box, and they've been there ever since.

Not anything that's been proven nor could be, but a very probable theory nonetheless.

 

[Musial Collector]

Amazing find of course, but I don't get why there are quite a few non-mint cards mixed in. Why so many 2.5 Hans Wagners? Why are the majority of the George Mullins 5s?

The story stated they were wrapped in twine and put in a box
I would imagine the lower graded cards were towards the top and bottom of the wrapped bundles, thus taking the brunt of the rubbing of the twine, and the higher graded cards were more so in the middle of the bundle/s, taking less if any rubbing of twine.

 

[nborton]

I haven't seen pictures of all of them, but it could also be centering issues.

 

[Musial Collector]

Video from CNN
http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_c2#/video/us/2012/07/11/dnt-oh-rare-baseball-cards-found.wtol

 

[MansGame]

Video from CNN
http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_c2#/video/us/2012/07/11/dnt-oh-rare-baseball-cards-found.wtol

Wow...

 

[Smidge]

Saw this in my local newspaper today. Crazy!!!

 

[cmixer]

27 of the cards in one auction?

Sent from my SPH-M580 using Sports Cards by Freedom Card Board.com

 

[fkw]

easily the biggest "find" ever... If you have any E98 cards you should have sold them off last week the value will dive on them in mid grade. (the highest E98 Cobb known before this find was a "7")

 

[fkw]

I spoke with a friend of mine last night and we discussed this find. He is an avid T206 collector and he said after having discussions with others who collect from that era, that it's an interesting possibility that these were cards that salesman would bring in to give to the owner's of these small retail shops in order to pass them out to customers as incentives for them to buy they're products. It's possible that this particular retailer never passed them out, threw them in a box, and they've been there ever since. Not anything that's been proven nor could be, but a very probable theory nonetheless.

True, No one knew or still knows how E98s were distributed, or with what product.... Anonymous. Other related sets have the caramel company printed on the back, but E98 just shows the checklist. Many just thought it was a candy product but these style cards (E cards from the 1910 Era) could and did come with many other products too, ie eggs, bread, cocoa, etc. They (E98's) could have been available to any merchant that ordered them. Like said some may have just never used them. Other hoards of unused cards... This find is similar to the 1916 Tango Eggs card find 20 years ago, and the 1921 Herpolsheimer find of 8 years ago, but the E98s are/were well known before this find (not rare), while the 1916 Tango's were almost unknown at the time if its find, and the 1921 Herpolsheimer cards were unknown before its find. The difference here is the amount of high grade cards from a set that CAN be completed (unlike the Tango and **** cards which can never be in complete set form, too rare and too many missing players or 1/1s) .... These E98s are far more valuable, because the registry crowd fighting over wanting the best set... PS. thats why the 27 cards are being auctioned together in one lot.