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Honus Wagner T206 Baseball Card

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Original
Edit 1 - removed hole
Reason
Moving over from picture peer review. An excellent scan of a historically important baseball card.
Proposed caption
The T206 Honus Wagner baseball card is a rare baseball card depicting Honus Wagner, a dead-ball era baseball player who is widely considered to be one of the finest players of all time. The card was designed and issued by the American Tobacco Company from 1909 to 1911. A total of only 50 to 200 cards were ever distributed to the public, and as a result of the card's rarity and popularity, prices have soared. In 2007, a collector paid $2.8 million for one, making it the most valuable baseball card in history.
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T206 Honus Wagner, Honus Wagner, and others.
Creator
National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, uploaded by Wickethewok
  • While we're at it, why not photoshop out the crack in the Mona Lisa, or perhaps the crack in the liberty bell?
  • Support original, Oppose edit. Iconic. — BRIAN0918 • 2007-11-15 19:35Z
  • Weak Support Original, Support Edit 1. I can see no problem with someone removing that big dirty splotch (and hole?) above his head, but it would sure improve the image. Change to full Support if someone does a good fix (I'd do it myself, but don't have time). --jjron 22:26, 15 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Probably shouldnt try to touch up a museum photograph of an old relic --ffroth 23:09, 15 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • I disagree. It says there are up to 50 - 200 of these. So the photo here is of a copy that is flawed; it doesn't mean they're all flawed, and presumably it wasn't flawed when it was made. The reason for the flaw is never mentioned in the nom or image description. Now if the flaw was a result of Honus Wagner burning a hole in it with his cigarette while admiring his own card or something we should leave it, otherwise it's adding no encyclopaedic value so can be repaired. The other option is we could say that there are many versions of this card out there somewhere, there must be better quality ones, so lets wait till we get a photo of one of them. --jjron 06:43, 16 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • If you read the card's article, you'll see that there has been heavy scrutiny and criticism of cards that have been altered in order to improve them. To photoshop out the problem would only muddy the waters; this example is one that is owned by the baseball Hall of Fame and that adds some enc value as well. Only 50-200 were ever produced; only a tiny handful remain, and only one other in such good condition. Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 16:44, 16 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Most likely memorabilia experts in this area know each of the 50-200 cards by heart, and could easily identify each one in a lineup. I believe we would be reducing encyclopedic value by creating a photoshopped example that no expert could identify, or that they could potentially mis-identify (unless they knew it was photoshopped). — BRIAN0918 • 2007-11-16 18:22Z
  • Yeah, sure, but most likely memorabilia experts would also read the image description that tells them it's been edited and links to the original. Personally I'm more interested in the billions of people who aren't memorabilia experts and just want to see a good image. --jjron (talk) 09:57, 17 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:HonusWagnerCard.jpg MER-C 04:03, 22 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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