Your chance to get a T206 Honus Wagner card

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*************************** 20th anniversary of attic find leads to historic sports card event TUSTIN, California, November 21 - Twenty years ago, famous sports card dealer Alan Rosen received a phone call from a collector in Quincy, Massachusetts, who had made a huge discovery and needed to know exactly what it was.

What it turned out to be was a rare, and now famous, cache of 5,500 cards from the 1952 Topps Baseball set, which included about 40 of the famous Mickey Mantle cards, in near-perfect shape.

Those Mantle cards were worth a few thousand dollars then.

Now, one of them graded by PSA as a 9 out of 10 is worth six figures as Memory Lane takes it to auction on December 14 at MemoryLaneInc.com. What makes that auction more remarkable is that this Mantle card is only the second-most famous card in the auction.

The most-famous card ever - a T206 Honus Wagner card (pictured) - is in the auction, too, and this one is in "good" condition.

This ranks it as one of the top seven such cards ever graded by esteemed card grader PSA.

"This has got to be one of the nicest eye appeal Wagners in the hobby," said J.P. Cohen, Memory Lane's director of auction consignments.

That sentiment was echoed by Roger Cameron, the company's director of auction marketing.

"This is an extremely high-end PSA 2," said Cameron about the card in an evaluation confirmed by a PSA Population Report that shows only a half-dozen Wagners in higher grade out of barely more than two dozen graded by PSA. Like the Mantle card, the Wagner card is worth six figures.

The trifecta is completed by one of the most famous football cards in the hobby - a 1935 National Chicle Bronko Nagurski card.

This card is to football collectors what the Wagner card is to baseballers.

This Nagurski is graded PSA 8, tied for the best grade ever for a Nagurski rookie.

This card has been in an East Coast collection and out of circulation since 1986, when like the Mantle card it was uncovered by the hobby from a private collection.

Finding one of the top seven examples from each of these three rare cards is a coup for any auction house.

The 1952 Topps Mantle card from that 1986 find also boasts in its lineage a one-time stop in the famed John Branca Collection.

Branca is an entertainment lawyer who has represented some of the great musical talent of the postwar era, including Michael Jackson, Carlos Santana, The Beach Boys, The Doors and The Rolling Stones.

He has also established himself as one of the top collectors in the country.

John Branca is the nephew and godson of legendary hurler Ralph Branca, who served up "The Shot Heard 'Round the World."

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