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David Copperfield tears and restores the Gretzky-McNall T206 Wagner

TheCARDKidTheCARDKid Posts: 1,496 ✭
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Torn and restored T206 Wagner

David Copperfield did this trick on one of his TV specials in the early 90's.

I hope PSA knows about those alterations, the collecting world will never be the same again image

Would you let Copperfield tear up any of your cards?

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  • ldfergldferg Posts: 6,745 ✭✭✭
    so the card that is now holdered was once turn in half? image

    i'm glad gretzky signed it first.


    Thanks,

    David (LD_Ferg)



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  • ColleSystemColleSystem Posts: 512 ✭✭
    The king of all card doctors?

    If in fact THE real card was any where near that trick, it probably went from a Mint 9 to a NM-MT 8 by all of the handling.

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    1977 Topps Star Wars - "Space Swashbucklers"
  • MajorDanbyMajorDanby Posts: 1,343
    so now we know who trimmed it
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  • itzagoneritzagoner Posts: 8,753 ✭✭
    remembering how thousands paid $2 a head to stand in line on a hot summer day in Anaheim just get a look at the real one

    remembering how a few months prior i stood next to McNall at a card shop and watched him whip out a wad of bills fatter than my a** to make a purchase

    with a trick more complex than anything Copperfield ever did, McNall turned a beautiful Armani 3-piece into an orange jumpsuitimage
  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,437 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I saw the card at the National in Atlanta in 1992 - I gotta say - it looked sweet!

    mike
    Mike
  • onlyanumberonlyanumber Posts: 2,433
    Am I the only one here who has the sudden urge to punch Copperfield in his face?
    Next MONTH? So he's saying that if he wins, the best-case scenario is that he'll be paying for it two weeks after the auction ends?

    Forget blocking him; find out where he lives and go punch him in the nuts. --WalterSobchak 9/12/12



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  • julen23julen23 Posts: 4,558 ✭✭
    copperfield's mullette is the truth!

    Julen
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    RIP GURU
  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,437 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Am I the only one here who has the sudden urge to punch Copperfield in his face? >>


    I'ld pay a buck 2.98 to see him drive a nail thru his skull!

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    Mike
  • SoutherncardsSoutherncards Posts: 1,384 ✭✭
    what a crock
  • BoopottsBoopotts Posts: 6,784 ✭✭
    I'm kind of embarrassed to admit this, but I find this kind of stuff totally amazing and it always infuriates me that I can't figure out how they do it. But I'm a total sucker for 'magic'-- I'll admit it-- and have been for as long as I can remember.
  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,437 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I'm kind of embarrassed to admit this, but I find this kind of stuff totally amazing and it always infuriates me that I can't figure out how they do it. But I'm a total sucker for 'magic'-- I'll admit it-- and have been for as long as I can remember. >>



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    Boo

    Here's a nice diagram of how something is "levitated" - they had some really good expose type shows a few years ago on a bunch of magic tricks.

    Many pro's were really pissed off.

    My dad had a few "travelling" illusion shows when I was a kid - he had one called the "Girl in the Fishbowl"
    people liked that one.

    My dad was a travelling auctioneer but he really liked magic and what went on in the back end of a carnival show - me too!!!

    mike
    Mike
  • phreakydancinphreakydancin Posts: 1,691 ✭✭
    T206 Honus Wagner in mint condition: Half a million dollars
    Wayne Gretzky's signature: 100 dollars (well, maybe 99!)
    The look on McNall's face when Wayne signs the card: priceless! image

    I notice the card was not graded at that point. When did PSA slab it?
  • phreakydancinphreakydancin Posts: 1,691 ✭✭


    << <i>copperfield's mullette is the truth!

    Julen >>

    Wayne's wasn't half bad either! image
  • Carew29Carew29 Posts: 4,025 ✭✭

    McNall the biggest crook of them all.
  • TheCARDKidTheCARDKid Posts: 1,496 ✭
    McNall has had some life.

    There's a book about his life, "Fun While it Lasted" and before his downfall, there were some great pieces in Vanity Fair and Esquire about his rise to the top. He went from boy wonder coin dealer as a kid to high end coins, antiquities, movies, race horses, the Kings. Literally Indiana Jones type stuff....buying smuggled antiquities in the back alleys of Europe.

    This special was from 1993, wasn't it graded by then?
  • LWMMLWMM Posts: 471 ✭
    Guesses on how that was done? I'm thinking the creased up card to a new one was him palming them, one at a time, and dropping the messed up one down his sleeve (which is always pointed up after that).

    And that's definately a repro card---more on the top of it, and more to the left.
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  • nightcrawlernightcrawler Posts: 5,110 ✭✭


    << <i>Am I the only one here who has the sudden urge to punch Copperfield in his face? >>



    You just might be image

    I don't know about the guys, but I've been wanting to punch his stupid face for years now image Nothing sudden here image
  • RedHeart54RedHeart54 Posts: 2,279 ✭✭✭


    << <i>And that's definately a repro card >>




    Uh, yeah. It's not too hard to tear something in half and produce another one when there are a million others (ok, 999,999) to put up your sleeve.
  • jad22jad22 Posts: 535 ✭✭
    The greatest trick of all was him dating claudia sheffer
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