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'Holy Grail' Honus Wagner card sells for over $5M as family auctions it from grandfather's collection
Fox Business· 2026-02-23 14:06
Group 1 - A T206 Honus Wagner baseball card was sold at auction for $5.124 million, making it the third-most expensive T206 Wagner card ever sold [1] - The auction was conducted by Goldin Auctions and included the buyer's premium [1] - Previous sales of T206 Wagner cards reached $6.606 million in August 2021 and $7.25 million in August 2022 [1] Group 2 - The recently discovered card had been in the Shields family for 116 years, originally collected by their grandfather, Morton Bernstein [2] - Morton Bernstein was the son of the founder of The National Silver Company and preserved trading cards since the early 1900s [2] - The card was graded as a 1 by Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA), while the other two Wagner cards received grades of 3 and 2 from Sportscard Guaranty Corporation (SGC) [5] Group 3 - The T206 Wagner card was featured on Netflix's "King of Collectibles: The Goldin Touch" in December [7] - Scarcity is a significant factor in the value of collectibles, as Wagner requested the American Tobacco Company to stop producing his card in 1909 [9] - Wagner is a highly recognized baseball player, known for winning the World Series with the Pittsburgh Pirates and being one of the original Hall of Fame inductees [11]