T206 Honus Wagner baseball card

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The T206 Honus Wagner baseball card is one of the rarest and most valuable sports cards in existence, famed among collectors as the "Holy Grail" of baseball card collecting.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf baseball card
collectible
rare trading card
sports trading card
associatedWith tobacco advertising controversy
cardBackBrand Piedmont NERFINISHED
Sweet Caporal NERFINISHED
cardBackType tobacco advertisement
cardBorderColor white
cardFrontColorScheme color lithograph
collectingCategory pre-war tobacco cards
vintage baseball cards
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
culturalStatus Holy Grail of sports cards NERFINISHED
depicts Honus Wagner NERFINISHED
distributedWith cigarettes
distributionMethod tobacco product premium
era pre-war baseball cards
estimatedKnownCopies fewer than 60
featuredIn numerous sports memorabilia auctions
featuresPlayer Honus Wagner NERFINISHED
firstMajorRecordPriceEra 1980s
frequentlyGradedBy PSA NERFINISHED
SGC NERFINISHED
hasConditionSpectrum from poor to near mint
hasName T206 Honus Wagner NERFINISHED
hasNickname Holy Grail of baseball cards
influenced growth of sports card investment market
languageOfText English
marketSegment high-end sports memorabilia
material cardboard
mostFamousExampleNickname Gretzky-McNall Wagner NERFINISHED
notableFor extreme rarity
high auction prices
iconic status among collectors
partOfSet T206 baseball card set NERFINISHED
playerPositionDepicted shortstop
playerTeamDepicted Pittsburgh Pirates NERFINISHED
producedBy American Tobacco Company NERFINISHED
productionEndYear 1911
productionStartYear 1909
rarityReason withdrawn from production early
recordAuctionPrice over 6 million US dollars
recordAuctionPriceContext one of the most expensive sports cards ever sold
recordAuctionPriceCurrency USD
setName T206
setNickname White Border set
significantOwner Bruce McNall NERFINISHED
Ken Kendrick NERFINISHED
Wayne Gretzky NERFINISHED
subjectOf books about sports collectibles
documentaries on sports memorabilia

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Wagner featuredOn T206 Honus Wagner baseball card
subject surface form: Honus Wagner
Johannes Peter Wagner notableWork T206 Honus Wagner baseball card