"Fame. Wagner had been at the top of his game throughout the decade, and was even considered the game's greatest player at the time. He had appeared on advertisements for a number of other products such as chewing gum, gunpowder and soft drinks. Unsurprisingly, the ATC asked for Wagner's permission to have his picture on a baseball card. According to an October 12, 1912 issue of ""The Sporting News"", Wagner did not give his consent to appear on the baseball card. In response to the authorization request letter sent by John Gruber, a Pittsburgh sportswriter hired by the ATC to"
"known. The technical grade includes the MC qualifier. The card was given this designation by PSA due to its oversized nature. This particular T206 Honus Wagner stands out from other known examples and therefore gives it placement as a top-notch specimen."" Initially sold at auction for $1.62M in 2008, the 'Jumbo Wagner' was featured by Goldin Auctions in their 2013 Winter Auction, which closed on April 5, 2013. Historical price increases and the state of the sports collectible market contributed to projections that the auction could set a new overall price record for the sale of a T206 Honus Wagner."
"price, $2,800,000. The card in question featured Honus Wagner, one of the great names in U.S. baseball at the turn of the 20th century. Wagner was a dedicated non-smoker and objected when America's biggest tobacco corporation planned to picture him on a cigarette card without his permission. Threats of legal action prevented its release, but a few slipped out, and it was one of these that stunned the collecting world when it was auctioned. Another notable and sought-after set of cards is the untitled series issued by Taddy and known by collectors as ""Clowns and Circus Artistes"". While not the"
"September 2007, the Wagner card changed hands again when SCP Auctions of Mission Viejo, California, which had bought minority ownership, brokered a new sale—this time for US$2.8 million, to a private collector. On August 1, 2008, noted memorabilia dealer John Rogers of North Little Rock, Arkansas paid US$1.6 million for a PSA 5MC (miscut) Wagner. Rogers stated he ""was prepared to go much higher and is pleased with his investment."" He added ""the citizens of Arkansas deserve to see this treasure and I intend to make the card available to the public."" In April 2013, a T206 ""jumbo"" Wagner, so-called"
"Honus Wagner (Vittor) Honus Wagner is a bronze statue by Frank Vittor, created to honor former Pittsburgh Pirates shortstop Honus Wagner. It is located at PNC Park, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was dedicated on April 30, 1955, at Schenley Park, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The statue was relocated in 1972, and rededicated on July 21, 1972, at Three Rivers Stadium, 400 Stadium Circle, Gate C, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Sculpture, lower left:) <br> Frank Vittor sc./1954 <br> (Base, front:) <br> J.P. ""HONUS""<br> WAGNER <br> (Back of base:) <br> ERECTED IN 1955<br> BY THE FANS OF AMERICA<br> IN HONOR OF A BASEBALL IMMORTAL<br> A CHAMPION AMONG"
"CHAMPIONS<br> WHOSE RECORD ON AND OFF THE<br> PLAYING FIELD OF THE NATIONAL GAME<br> WILL EVER STAND AS A MONUMENT<br> TO HIS OWN GREATNESS <br> AND AS AN EXAMPLE AND INSPIRATION TO THE YOUTH<br> OF OUR COUNTRY<br> SPONSORED BY<br> THE PITTSBURGH PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL ASSOCIATION<br> signed<br> Honus Wagner (Vittor) Honus Wagner is a bronze statue by Frank Vittor, created to honor former Pittsburgh Pirates shortstop Honus Wagner. It is located at PNC Park, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was dedicated on April 30, 1955, at Schenley Park, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The statue was relocated in 1972, and rededicated on July 21, 1972, at Three Rivers"
"Honus Wagner Sports Museum which includes many Wagner collectibles and memorabilia. Visitors receive replicas of the famous card. In the 1992 episode Homer at the Bat, the popular TV show The Simpsons made a reference to Wagner. The character Mr. Burns lists three ringers he wants for his company's baseball team, but they are Honus Wagner, Cap Anson, and ""Mordecai 'Three Fingers' Brown"". His assistant has to point out that they are not only retired, but long-dead ... Anson having played in the late 19th century. In 2000, Wagner was honored with a U.S. postage stamp. The stamp was issued"
"Celebration series), whereas his paintings are less popular. In 2001, one of his three ""Michael Jackson and Bubbles"" porcelain sculptures sold for US$5.6 million. On November 14, 2007, ""Hanging Heart (Magenta/Gold)"" from the collection of Adam Lindemann, one of five in different colors, sold at Sotheby's New York for US$23.6 million becoming, at the time, the most expensive piece by a living artist ever auctioned. It was bought by the Gagosian Gallery in New York, which the previous day had purchased another Koons sculpture, ""Diamond (Blue)"", for US$11.8 million from Christie's London. Gagosian appears to have bought both Celebration series"
"a brand name owned by Topps), and Donruss (now a brand name owned by Panini Group). Baseball cards have been declining in value since the 1980s after the production of mass-produced cards and counterfeit cards started, however, baseball cards are still one of the most influential collectibles of all time. A T206 Honus Wagner was sold for $2.8 million in 2007. While baseball cards were first produced in the United States, as the popularity of baseball spread to other countries, so too did the production of baseball cards. Sets appeared in Japan as early as 1898, in Cuba as early"
"stopped abruptly. It is assumed that less than 100 of his cards exist in this set. The 1909 T-206 Honus Wagner card has sold for as much as $2.8 million. Sets of cards are issued with each season for major professional sports. Since companies typically must pay players for the right to use their images, the vast majority of sports cards feature professional athletes. Amateurs appear only rarely, usually on cards produced or authorized by the institution they compete for, such as a college. Many older sports cards (pre-1980) command a high price today; this is because they are hard"
"and auctioned it at Christie's for $640,000 to collector Michael Gidwitz. In 2000, the card was sold via Robert Edward Auctions to card collector Brian Seigel for $1.27 million. In February 2007, Seigel sold the card privately to an anonymous collector for $2.35 million. Less than six months later, the card was sold to another anonymous collector for $2.8 million. In April 2011, that anonymous purchaser was revealed to be Ken Kendrick, owner of the Arizona Diamondbacks. A different card, named the ""Jumbo Wagner"" was sold at auction again in 2016 for a record $3.12 million. These transactions have made"
"not wish to associate himself with cigarettes, possibly because he did not want to encourage children to smoke. However, some collectors and historians have pointed out that Wagner, a user of chewing tobacco, allowed his image to appear on cigar boxes and other tobacco-related products prior to 1909 and may have objected to the card simply because he wanted more financial compensation for the use of his image. A high-quality example of the Wagner card was sold at auction on eBay in 2000 for US$1.265 million. In February 2007, the same card was sold for a record US$2.35 million. In"
"card-shop owner. Walton, however, never paid, and Heritage Auction Galleries subsequently contacted one of its longtime clients, Nicholas DePace, a New Jersey cardiologist, who immediately agreed to buy the card for the same price. On December 20, 2010, after taking its 19.5 percent buyer's premium, the auction house sent $220,000 by bank wire to the School Sisters of Notre Dame. The religious order had already announced that the proceeds from the sale would go to its ministries in more than 30 countries. Many of the remaining T206 Honus Wagner cards in existence have rated low on the PSA grading scale."
"million, including a full-size transportation-themed carousel manufactured by Wilhelm Hennecke of Germany in 1957 for $557,750. Top 10 Scottsdale Auction Automobilia sales: Note: Top 10 sales from 2007-2018 at the Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale Auction In 2008, Sherwin-Williams and Barrett-Jackson launched a line of auto paint under the Planet Color brand. The line of 25 colors was sold in NAPA and Sherwin-Williams stores. Branded merchandise and apparel are also licensed, as well as novelties and die-cast toy automobiles. At the 2007 Scottsdale auction, after the last authenticated ""Ramchargers"" (a former drag racing team that had been staffed by Chrysler Corporation employees) race"
"card. The figures on Baseball-Reference.com are as follows. Other private research sites may have different figures. Caught Stealing is not shown comprehensively for Wagner's MLB.com totals, because the stat was not regularly captured until 1920. , or Retrosheet Honus Wagner Johannes Peter ""Honus"" Wagner (; February 24, 1874 – December 6, 1955), sometimes referred to as ""Hans"" Wagner, was a German-American baseball shortstop who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball from 1897 to 1917, almost entirely for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Wagner won his eighth (and final) batting title in 1911, a National League record that remains unbroken to this"
"Guennol Lioness The Guennol Lioness is a 5,000-year-old Mesopotamian statue allegedly found near Baghdad, Iraq. Depicting a muscular anthropomorphic lioness-woman, it sold for $57.2 million at Sotheby's auction house on December 5, 2007. The sculpture had been acquired by a private collector, Alastair Bradley Martin, in 1948 from the collection of Joseph Brummer, and had been on display at Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York City from that time to its sale in 2007. It is called ""Guennol"" after the Welsh name for ""Martin"", the name of the collector. At the time of its 2007 sale, the price paid"
"1991 auction attracted nearly 800 collectors who were interested in purchasing some of Copeland's rare memorabilia. The bidding prices far exceeded the pre-auction estimates, as a 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle card sold for $49,500, more than three times the initial pre-auction price estimate. Pre-auction estimates placed Copeland's T206 Honus Wagner at a price of $114,000. Within minutes of the opening bid for the T206 Wagner card, the highest bidder had put down $228,000, twice the pre-auction estimate. A bidding competition between Mike Gidwitz, Mark Friedland and an unknown phone bidder ensued. Gidwitz dropped out of the competition when the bidding"
"Connelly pointed out, the collectors chose not to make bids because ""[w]hen eBay pulled the card ... it raised too many questions about its authenticity."" As a result of the publicity generated from the financially successful Gretzky T206 Honus Wagner, a number of previously undiscovered legitimate T206 Wagner cards have surfaced. There are fewer than 60 authenticated Wagner cards in existence. An authentic card is part of the Leopold Morse Goulston Baseball Collection in The New York Public Library's George Arents Collection. An authentic card is held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. In 2010, a"
"a list highlighting a few other notable paintings: The gallery contains a variety of sculptures on the exterior grounds. Some of the most notable, from the past and the present, include: In 2007, the Albright–Knox Art Gallery deaccessioned a Roman-era bronze sculpture, ""Artemis and the Stag"", that was auctioned at Sotheby's New York on June 7, 2007, and brought $28.6 million. This was the highest price ever paid at auction for an antiquity or a sculpture of any period, according to Sotheby's. It was purchased by the London dealer Giuseppe Eskenazi on behalf of a private European collector. The event"
"a model J could fetch anywhere between $20,000 and $75,000. The Duesenberg Special, a.k.a. ""Mormon Meteor"", was sold at an auction by Gooding & Co in August 2004 for $4.5 million. Another SJ sold for $4.4 million at RM Auctions in Monterey, California, in 2007. Liberace used a replica Dusenberg SJ encrusted with Austrian rhinestone crystals during his stage performances. The vehicle later went on to be exhibited at the Liberace Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada, and at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, and its current location is at the ""Liberace Garage"" located in Las Vegas as well. In 2018"
"the colossus of New York dealers, agreed to finance the completion of all the unfinished ""Celebration"" work, in exchange for exclusive rights to sell it. In 2006, Koons presented ""Hanging Heart"", a 9-foot-tall highly polished, steel heart, one of a series of five differently colored examples, part of his ""Celebration"" series. Large sculptures from that series were exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2008. Later additions to the series include ""Balloon Swan"" (2004–2011), an 11.5-foot (3.5-meter), stainless-steel bird, ""Balloon Rabbit"" (2005–2010), and ""Balloon Monkey"", all for which children's party favors are reconceived as mesmerizing monumental"
"size from 2x3 inch smiling and frowning parodies of Gilbert Stuart’s portrait of George Washington on the dollar, to the 17x3 feet ""Liberty"", a 2009 depiction of the Statue of Liberty using slices from over 1000 dollar bills. Lisa Dennison, Chief Curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City commends Wagner's “witty and intricately detailed” work and situates his art in the longstanding tradition of artists like Ed Ruscha who adapt pre-existing resources to create uniquely engaging works of art. Detractors say the work can lean towards the gimmicky. Wagner has had a number of solo exhibitions"
"around the beginning of the 20th century came in candy and tobacco products produced by such companies as Breisch-Williams confectionery company of Oxford, Pennsylvania, American Caramel Company, the Imperial Tobacco Company of Canada, and Cabañas, a Cuban cigar manufacturer. In fact it is a baseball set, known as the T206 tobacco card set, issued from 1909 to 1911 in cigarette and loose tobacco packs through 16 different brands owned by the American Tobacco Company that is considered by collectors to be the most popular set of cigarette cards. A T206 Honus Wagner card sold on April 6, 2013 for $2.1"
"works on behalf of Ukrainian steel oligarch Victor Pinchuk. In July 2008, his 11-foot (3.3 meter) ""Balloon Flower (Magenta)"" (1995–2000) from the collection of Howard and Cindy Rachofsky also sold at Christie's London for an auction record of US$25.7 million. In total, Koons was the top-selling artist at auction with €81.3 million of sales in the year to June 2008. During the late 2000s recession, however, art prices plummeted and auction sales of high-value works by Koons dropped 50 percent in 2009. A violet ""Hanging Heart"" sold for US$11 million in a private sale. However prices for the artist's earlier"
"which was donated to two hospitals in Hanover. Since then, on the dates of his birth and death, he has been celebrated frequently. During the 175th anniversary in 2007, there were numerous re-publications of Busch works. Deutsche Post issued stamps depicting the Busch character Hans Huckebein — itself the inspiration for the nickname of the never-built Focke-Wulf Ta 183 German jet fighter design of 1945 — and the German Republic minted a 10 Euro silver coin faced with his portrait. Hanover declared 2007 the ""Wilhelm Busch Year"", with images featuring Busch works erected within the city centre. The Wilhelm Busch"
"Bubbles and Jackson. At the time, each sculpture was said to be worth $250,000. Koons once said of the pop star, ""If I could be one other living person, it would probably be Michael Jackson."" The art piece went on to become one of Koons' best known works. The figure shows Jackson and the chimpanzee wearing gold military-style suits. In 2001, one of the figures was put up for auction and was expected to fetch between $3 million and $4 million. The figure sold to an anonymous telephone bidder for $5.6 million. The sale was a record for a work"
"of the other paintings in the ""Seven Wonders of the World"" series have come up for sale. ""The Statue of Olympian Zeus"" was sold by Sotheby's in 2009 for $482,500, and is now in the collection of the Morohashi Museum of Modern Art. In 2013 Sotheby's also sold ""The Temple of Diana at Ephesus"", for $845,000; it is now in a private collection. ""The Walls of Babylon"" was offered for sale by Sotheby's in 2014 with an estimate of £300,000–400,000, but was bought in. Dalí's thematically similar 1955 paintings have also been auctioned. Christie's sold ""The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus"" for"
"the project. A life-size model from which the sculpture was created was sold at auction for £2.28 million in July 2008. An additional bronze maquette used in fundraising in the 1990s, owned by Gateshead Council, was valued at £1 million on the BBC show ""Antiques Roadshow"" on 16 November 2008—the most valuable item ever appraised on the programme. In 2011 German fashion designer Wolfgang Joop sold his life-size maquette (previously kept in the garden of his mansion in Potsdam, Germany) at an auction at Christie's in London for £3.4 million to an anonymous bidder. Another maquette was donated to the"
"chosen by the artist for its durability. Responding to widespread criticism, the board of Lincoln Center had to drop its selling plans. In 1998, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York bought Johns' ""White Flag"". While the Museum would not disclose how much was paid, ""The New York Times"" reported that ""experts estimate [the painting's] value at more than $20 million"". The National Gallery of Art acquired about 1,700 of Johns' proofs in 2007. This made the gallery home to the largest number of Johns' works held by a single institution. The exhibition showed works from many points in"
"$4.9 million and fetched $206.5 million (including buyer's premium) in November, 1997. The Ganzes are estimated to have netted revenue of $183.8 million. The annualised growth in value (after inflation) was 12.06%, or 11.74% after seller's commissions. At the time of the auction, it was the largest private owner art sale in history. Victor Ganz Victor Wendell Ganz (1913–1987) was an American business owner and art collector. He was the president of D. Lisner & Company, a small costume jewelry manufacturer. With limited resources he and his wife Sally Wile-Ganz built one of the most important collections of contemporary art"
"enthusiasts denied that they came from the Heuer factory, others stated that less than twenty were made. Stories about the watch vary between sources In August 2007, Jack Heuer confirmed its production by Heuer which caused so much auction activity in July and August 2007. Being a rarer example of the Monacos, the best example cost more than $10,000. An excellent condition model sold for $7,500. This model is a reissued version of the original in 1998 produced in a limited edition of 5,000. Despite the company being acquired by Techniques d'Avant Garde, meaning all subsequent models now bear the"
"scarcity, even at the time, combined with Wagner's reputation as one of the greatest players in baseball history, made it the most valuable sports card of all time, with one pristine specimen yielding $2.8 million at auction. It has been characterized as the ""Holy Grail"" of baseball cards. The city name displayed across Wagner's jersey on the card was an artistic addition that did not actually appear on the Pirates' uniforms of the time. The portrait of Wagner makes it appear as if there could be an ""H"" on the end, cut off by the border of the picture, but"
"as ""a rare and exciting find"". ""In America, it would be equivalent to finding Jesse James' gun,"" he said. The revolver was auctioned on Tuesday, 13 November 2007, where it sold to an absentee bidder for $72,870AU. The following day, controversy began to surround the sale when several antique firearm experts claimed to have informed Mossgreen director Paul Sumner prior to the Tuesday night auction that the revolver was incorrectly described, and dated too late to have been associated with Constable Fitzpatrick or the Kelly Gang during the years 1878-80. One expert explained that Henckell & Co., Solingen, was most"