"A recently discovered 1909 Sweet Caporal T206 Honus Wagner card, which had been pulled from a then newly released tobacco pack and kept in the same family for over a century, has been sold via Goldin Auctions for $5.124 million (including buyer's premium). It's the third-most expensive T206 Wagner behind the copy purchased for $6.606 million in August 2021 and the copy sold privately for $7.25 million in August 2022."
"This Wagner belonged to Douglas and Dennis Shields, whose grandfather Morton Bernstein, the son of the founder of The National Silver Company, collected and preserved trading cards in the early 1900s. After Bernstein purchased F.B. Rogers Silver Company in 1955 and expanded west, he framed his cards and decorated his businesses with them; when the National Silver Company folded, the cards were moved to a warehouse and eventually bequeathed to Dennis and Douglas."
A 1909 Sweet Caporal T206 Honus Wagner card sold via Goldin Auctions for $5.124 million. The sale ranks third among T206 Wagners, behind copies that sold for $6.606 million and $7.25 million. The card received a PSA grade of 1 while the higher-priced copies were graded SGC 3 and 2. The card remained in the Shields family for 116 years after being acquired by their grandfather Morton Bernstein, who displayed the cards before they were moved to a warehouse and later bequeathed. The discovery was chronicled on season three of Netflix's 'King of Collectibles: The Goldin Touch.' The T206 Wagner was pulled from production in 1909; scarcity theories include a printing-plate mishap or Wagner objecting to promoting tobacco to children.
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