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The cards measure 1 + 7 ⁄ 16 by 2 + 5 ⁄ 8 inches (3.7 cm × 6.7 cm) which is considered by many collectors to be the standard tobacco card size. The T206 set is one of the most popular and widely collected set of the tobacco/pre-war era.
The typical card in the T206 series had a width of 1 + 7 ⁄ 16 inches (3.65 cm) and a height of 2 + 5 ⁄ 8 inches (6.67 cm). [11] Some cards were awkwardly shaped or irregularly sized, which prompted a belief that many of the cards in the series had been altered at one point or another.
The T206 Honus Wagner baseball card is one of the rarest and most expensive baseball cards in the world, as only 57 copies are known to exist. [31] The card was designed and issued by the American Tobacco Company (ATC) from 1909 to 1911 as part of its T206 series.
These cards, issued with bubble gum in each pack, were the first baseball gum cards. The 1933 Goudey set is considered one of the "Big Three" classic baseball card sets, along with the T206 and 1952 Topps sets. [citation needed] One of the rarest baseball cards from a mainstream set is card #106 from the 1933 Goudey set.
A damaged 1909 T206 Honus Wagner baseball card that was trimmed, missing three sides and had a crease in the middle, sold at auction for $1.5 million.
The first sports card to sell for one million dollars was a T206 Honus Wagner which went for $1,265,000 at auction in 2000 (equivalent to $2,238,133 in 2023). [1] As of May 2020, the industry brings in over one billion dollars annually for manufacturers and retailers. [2]
According to cardboardconnection.com, as of 2015, it is estimated that less than 60 of the T206 Honus Wagner cards still exist. By last count, there were 57 known examples. [15] In 2021, a T206 Wagner card was sold in a private sale for $7.5 million, a record amount for a sports card. [16] [15] Another famous one, from 1911, is Joe Tinker. [17 ...
In 2016, a cache of 7 T206 Ty Cobb baseball cards were discovered in a paper bag when a family was cleaning out their deceased great-grandfather's home. [7] These cards were nicknamed the "Lucky 7" [2] and brought the total number of known T206 Ty Cobb's in existence to 22. [6] The cards were authenticated and initially valued at around $1 ...