A renowned sports card and memorabilia action company SCP Auctions Inc. auctioned the T206Honus Wagner baseball card, and the new minority owner of the card is a private California sports collector (preferring to remain anonymous) who paid a record-breaking sum of $2.35 million for the “Mona Lisa” of baseball cards.
With baseball, gaining popularity and becoming a professional sport the baseball clubs resorted to photography, posing in groups and individually - these photographs were printed onto small cards(baseball cards), similar to the trading cards, which soon became an advertisement mode for various sport and non-sport companies.
With over a century lapsed since the inception of these cards there are a few that still exists - the T206 Honus Wagner baseball card may not be the oldest but is certainly considered the most valuable baseball card in existence.
For you and me the card is perhaps mere scrap of colored cardboard, barely 2 1/2 inches tall and less than 2 inches wide, but for those who really value, for them it’s nothing less than pearls.
The T206 gains popularity - as Honus Wagner a former Pittsburgh Pirates shortstop, was one of the first five players inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame and is also considered one of the greatest players in the history of Major League Baseball . The card has nearly doubled in price three of the previous four times it has changed hands in the past 20 years.
Read: Reuters
