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Plate I
T206 Honus Wagner Card, Jefferson R. Burdick Collection
American Tobacco Company, publisher
An authentic example of the rarest card in the T206 set, held by The Met in the collection of Jefferson R. Burdick, who catalogued the set and gave it its name.
- Date
- 1909–11
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Reference
- 63.350.246.206.378
- Catalogue
- T206 Honus Wagner
Record
From 1909 the American Tobacco Company inserted its T206 'white border' cards of 524 players into cigarette packs. Wagner refused to allow production of his card to continue, so only a small number were issued; estimates of how many run from 50 to 200. Jefferson R. Burdick, a Syracuse electrician, devised the numbering used for American trade cards in The American Card Catalog, where the T206 Wagner was listed in 1933 at $50, then the highest price of any baseball card. Burdick gave his collection of more than 300,000 items of printed ephemera to The Met from the late 1940s until his death in 1963; this card belongs to it.
- Culture
- American
- Medium
- Commercial lithograph on card
- Dimensions
- 6.7 × 3.7 cm
- Origin
- United States
In the Tapestry
- Depicts
- Honus WagnerC
- Owned by · until 1963
- Jefferson R. BurdickC
- Depicts
- Pittsburgh PiratesC
- Made by · 1909–11
- American Tobacco CompanyC
- Exhibited at
- Metropolitan Museum of ArtB
Provenance and history
Sources
- A
Wikipedia, 'Honus Wagner baseball card'
↗ View original record - B
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 'The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection'
Catalogue record
↗ View original record - C
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, collection record 63.350.246.206.378
Catalogue record
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