Lot # 314: 1912 T207 Anonymous Buck Weaver - SGC EX 60 - The Miracle Weaver!

Category: 1900-1948

Starting Bid: $750.00

Bids: 10 (Bid History)

Time Left: Auction closed


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Item was in Auction "Spring, 2015 Premier Catalog Auction",
which ran from 3/3/2015 5:00 AM to
3/29/2015 10:05 AM



In the spring of 1965 a young Pennsylvania boy was playing with his friends in the parking lot outside a diner near Philadelphia. The lot was evidently a frequent place where the boys played and one particular day the boy noticed that a desk had been discarded in the dumpster behind the restaurant. Curious he opened the desk drawers and found a small stack of tobacco cards which had been thrown away with the desk. The boy took the cards home with him and tucked them away in a small box. Fifty years later now with young grandchildren the boy called us at Love of the Game and asked us to take a look at the cards. The colleciton included about 30 tobacco-era baseball cards T205s and T207s mostly with Cycle backs. Included in the pile was this card of hobby favorite Buck Weaver with a blank "anonymous" reverse. We submitted the card - which we knew boasted outstanding eye appeal - to SGC who assigned it a grade of EX 60 - the highest grade of any T207 Weaver SGC has graded. This card is a miracle! One of the most sought-after cards in the T207 set with one of the issue's most difficult backs discarded into a dumpster 50 years ago along with another group of cards which at the time had very little value. The cards were brought home by a young boy who had the presence of mind to tuck them away where they would not be damaged or destroyed for fifty years until they were rediscovered and consigned to auction where it sits as the highest-graded SGC anonymous Weaver known. That this card exists is simply amazing to us. Auction houses frequently get into the habit of naming their "finds" for publicity value: the "jumbo" this the "Connecticut" that. We decided this card needed a similar name but the "Dumpster Weaver" didn't seem to fit the bill. As such we hereby christen this "The Miracle Weaver": the card that survived being tossed into a dumpster lived 50 years in the collection of a young man who grew had children and then grandchildren and was never damaged or destroyed in 50 years of storage. A true beauty with a vivid brown background and a clean anonymous back. Population Data SGC Population: 17 total graded 1 at this level 0 higher

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