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MHCC Kicks off New Year with Inaugural $1.217M Premium Sports Collectibles Auction

Centennial, CO - January 21, 2010 Colorado's Mile High Card Company recently concluded its first-ever Premium Sports Collectibles Auction and is delighted to report several record-breaking sales. Leading the pack was a T206 Eddie Plank graded PSA 3 that fetched $75,083 at the end of the long night. Long-overshadowed by the iconic T206 Wagner, many collectors now agree that the company that printed the groundbreaking T206 set, the American Lithographic Company, pulled the T206 Plank from production for the very same reason it pulled the Wagner; either both Eddie and Hans demanded more money from American Tobacco, an older but still popular theory, or neither superstar wanted his image associated with tobacco for fear he would promote its use among children, a somewhat newer theory recently substantiated by one of MHCC's very own customers whose father had served as the head color artist for a subsidiary of American Lithographic and directly relayed the story to his daughter during her childhood.

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