Joe Palumbo Burlington, Vermont

As many of you may have heard, recently a 1952 PSA 9 Mickey Mantle sold at auction for 2.88 million dollars. While that doesn't break the record for the highest price paid for a baseball card, (3.12 million for a T206 Wagner), it did get me thinking.

What would an original T206 Honus Wagner PSA Gem Mint 10 sell for?

Let's suspend disbelief for a moment and dream of the possibilities. It still happens on occasion, that a rare 100+ yr-old card is discovered in an attic. (Remember the "Lucky 7" Cobb cards found a couple of years ago).

So perhaps...just maybe, somewhere out there in someone's attic is a gem mint Wagner, (non-slabbed of course), pressed between the pages of a Hemingway novel.

So to find an answer to my question I called an old friend of mine, Mike Papa, owner of Green Mountain Cards in Essex Jct, VT.