An extremely rare Joe Doyle, 1910 T206 "Nat'L" error card which sold for $1.3 Million, via REA Auctions:
"This example is entirely new to the collecting world and has with it, as most all exciting discoveries do, an interesting and fortuitous backstory.
For more than 100 years, the offered card sat undiscovered in the passed-down collection of a North Carolina man born in 1900. That man, our consignor's maternal great-grandfather, would roam the streets of his hometown, gathering cards from smokers, newspaper men, and fellow adolescents. As a result of his efforts, he amassed a collection of more than 1,000 tobacco cards, ranging from T205 Gold Borders, T206 White Border, T209 Contentnea, and T210 Old Mill, as well as countless non-sport subjects issued during the same time period.
As this boy became a man and started a family of his own, he had two daughters who showed no interest in the two scrapbooks of cards he kept from his childhood.
The next generation produced only girls who felt similarly about these cards, but one of those girls would go on to have a son who consumed all things baseball as a young boy. That boy, ironically enough, was the son of two high school sweethearts - one of whom was the granddaughter of this opportunistic collector and one of whom was a descendent of the founding family of the American Tobacco Company, which produced the T206 cards and set into motion the idea of collecting these colorful tobacco cards..."
