In August, a T206 Honus Wagner baseball card set the stratospheric record for most expensive sports card of all time when it sold for $6.606 million with Robert Edward Auctions. The mythology of the T206 Wagner is the most storied in sports-card collecting — which might explain one of the more eye-catching, head-scratching sales in recent memory.
This weekend, SCP Auctions announced that they’d finalized the sale of a T206 Honus Wagner card for $475,960, including a buyer’s premium. Until now, there hadn’t been a Wagner card sold for less than $1 million since before the COVID-19 pandemic.
The catch? This Wagner card was torn in half. Wagner’s left jaw is…
