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Lot 863: Honus Wagner Signed Government Postcard

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Reserve: $300.00
Winning Bid: $1,355.41
Price Realized: $1,619.71
Auction Date:11/30/2005 9:00 PM EST

A slightly shaky but historically profound Honus Wagner signature rests on this government postcard sent to Jim Davidson 4 years before the venerable Dutchman’s death in 1955, making this one of the last few markers given by the peerless, bow-legged HOF shortstop. Signature in blue ink is 9/10 while the postcard itself is EX. It is postmarked September 18, 1951 from Carnegie, PA, an across-the-diamond throw from where Wagner made his mark in the Steel City, where he was born and raised and developed his barrel chest working in the mines as a youngster. Postcard has a newspaper photo of an elderly Wagner as a Pirate coach, a position he held from 1933 until 1951.

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