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1911 Honus Wagner M116 Sporting Life - Blue Background - Blue
Reported as Possibly: ALTERED
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August 24, 2019 • PSA 3 cert# 27015716 • BlowOut →
Prior Grade: PSA 2 Cert# 40648611
Card: 1911 M116 Sporting Life, Honus Wagner, Blue Background.
Alterations: Re-colored.
Yellow circles are the common print marks/flaws between both cards.
Blue boxes show re-colored areas.
The re-coloring done to this card is unbelievably apparent when looking at the scan. The area on his hair that once had a white speck of paper loss was colored gray, a color that doesn't even match the area around it. The yellow circular printing flaw in the background is no longer yellow in the post-alteration scan. The yellow layer (seen just above Wagner's right shoulder) is the first step in the color lithographic process and removing it seems impossible without highly caustic chemicals. Re-coloring is the only way it could've suddenly disappeared.
Sold by Heritage Auctions (as a PSA 2) on November 5, 2015 for $2,390 to an unknown buyer.
Then sold by PWCC (as a PSA 3) on June 6, 2017 for $3,951.
Gain: $1,561
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Prior Grade PSA 2
Prior Grade: PSA 2 Cert# 40648611
Card: 1911 M116 Sporting Life, Honus Wagner, Blue Background.
Alterations: Re-colored.
Yellow circles are the common print marks/flaws between both cards.
Blue boxes show re-colored areas.
The re-coloring done to this card is unbelievably apparent when looking at the scan. The area on his hair that once had a white speck of paper loss was colored gray, a color that doesn't even match the area around it. The yellow circular printing flaw in the background is no longer yellow in the post-alteration scan. The yellow layer (seen just above Wagner's right shoulder) is the first step in the color lithographic process and removing it seems impossible without highly caustic chemicals. Re-coloring is the only way it could've suddenly disappeared.
Sold by Heritage Auctions (as a PSA 2) on November 5, 2015 for $2,390 to an unknown buyer.
Then sold by PWCC (as a PSA 3) on June 6, 2017 for $3,951.
Gain: $1,561
Links:
Before: Heritage →
After: PWCC →
Fronts:
Backs:
SetBuilder is offline Report Post Reply With Quote
Prior Grade PSA 2
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