Honus Wagner
Signed until 1955, so the supply is fixed — nothing new is being added to this market.
Recorded sales
| Date | What sold | Certified | Price | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-08-22 | 1944 Honus Wagner single signed baseball inscribed Pirates 44 | PSA/DNA Auto 7.5 | $19,200 | auction result |
| 2024-05-18 | 1947-48 Honus Wagner single signed baseball | PSA/DNA Auto 8 | $4,200 | auction result |
| 2024-08-25 | 1930s Honus Wagner signed Christmas card | PSA/DNA Mint 9 Auto | $3,960 | auction result |
| 2024-02-25 | 1939 Honus Wagner signed postcard | PSA/DNA Mint 9 Auto | $3,757 | auction result |
| 2024-05-18 | 1948 Pittsburgh Pirates team signed baseball with Honus Wagner | PSA/DNA EX-MT+ 6.5 Auto | $2,640 | auction result |
| 2022-05-14 | 1935 Honus Wagner signed letter to Max Carey | Beckett Auto 9 | $2,520 | auction result |
| 2022-05-14 | 1933 Honus Wagner signed photograph display | Beckett Auto 10 | $1,860 | auction result |
| 2025-05-18 | 1940s Honus Wagner signed index card | PSA/DNA Authentic Auto | $1,830 | auction result |
By certification level
These are 8 results this index has recorded from Heritage Auctions between 2021 and 2025, not every sale that happened. They under-represent inexpensive items, which sell constantly and are reported rarely, and they exclude private sales this index has no record of. Read them as documented evidence rather than as a complete market.
About this signature
- Status
- Signed until 1955supply is fixed
- Note
- Prolific signer; the signature changed form over his lifetime
- On this index
- 0 listedno sales recorded yet
What does a Honus Wagner autograph cost?
The results recorded here run from under two thousand dollars for a signed index card to just over nineteen thousand for a signed baseball. That is a spread of about ten times across eight documented sales, and the object matters far more than the grade in deciding where in that range a given item falls.
What of his gets signed most often?
Paper, mostly. The recorded results here are dominated by correspondence and ephemera: a letter, a postcard, a Christmas card, an index card. Collectors of his material describe cheques and personal documents as the most commonly encountered authentic items, which fits a man who signed steadily through a long life rather than at organised signings. Baseballs are the exception, and they carry the top of the market.
Why does the highest-graded item here sell for the least?
This is the most useful thing on the page. Ordered by price, the recorded autograph grades run 7.5, 8, 9, 9, 6.5, 9, 10 and Authentic. A ball graded 7.5 made more than ten times what a photograph graded 10 made. The grade is not wrong; it is answering a different question. It scores how well the signature is written and preserved, while the price is set by what it is written on. A signed baseball and a signed index card are different collectibles that happen to share a signature, and comparing their grades tells you almost nothing about their relative value.
Signatures are reproduced more often than most buyers realise, by outright forgery and also by machines and assistants signing on somebody’s behalf. Every item on this page has been examined by PSA/DNA, JSA, Beckett, SGC or CGC, and this index carries nothing else. That is a deliberate restriction, and the investigation that created the modern authentication industry is worth reading, along with what a certificate actually claims.