It portrays Honus Wagner, a Pirates player from the early 1900s. The record was beaten by that of Mantle of the Yankees, auctioned in January for 4.4 million, the same amount paid for a LeBron card
Over six million dollars for a sticker. It is the new record set in the USA, where a card of Honus Wagner, baseball player of the early 1900s of the Pittsburgh Pirates was sold at auction for the incredible sum of 6,606,000 dollars (at today’s exchange rate 5,600,000 euro), pulverizing the previous record that belonged to another baseball card, that of 1952 that portrays Mickey Mantle, bought in January for 5.2 million dollars (4.4 million euros), then equalized by the Upper Deck Exquisite Collection by LeBron James (but signed) from 2003-04, his freshman year in the NBA.
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The seller and the buyer preferred to remain anonymous. “This Wagner card – explained Brian Dwyer, president of the auction house that beat it – stands out from the others for its condition. From the data in our possession, there are about sixty in circulation, the majority of which, however, are in a very bad or bad state of conservation ”. The upward race of the stickers seems to never stop. “My father had sensed that it was a rapidly evolving market – explained Andrew Aronstein, one of the first owners of a Wagner card – but he never would have imagined that it would have come to this point”. In 1973 Aronstein sold a Wagner “figu” for $ 1,100, in 1976 the buyer sold it for $ 2,500. Not long ago that same card was paid for $ 1.2 million. “If I would like to have it back? Well, of course – added Aronstein – But at the same time with the money I collected from the sale I opened my memorabilia shop, which was successful and allowed me to retire at 55. So…”.
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