Finest T206 set gets broken up and sold via Heritage Auctions

The finest set of 1909-11 T206 baseball cards is on the market -- and it's being broken up -- this month via Dallas-based Heritage Auctions where it's expected to be a record-breaker.

"For hundreds of trading card collectors, this is the auction event of a lifetime," said Chris Ivy, director of sports collectibles for Heritage. "This auction is the vault door swinging open to reveal treasures unavailable anywhere else."

It's a lot of 520 cards that includes nine PSA 10s -- only 13 in all exist at that grade -- and nearly all of the cards in this one are the highest-graded specimens of their kind for this landmark set. More than 100 of the cards are PSA 9s and only one is graded below a PSA 7 (it's a PSA 6).

The auctions will run for the next 20 days or so and eight of the cards already have topped the $50,000 mark. Leading the way right now is a PSA 7 Sweet Caporal Eddie Plank at $280,000 with just one card higher in grade than this one. After that, there's a Piedmont-backed Sherry Magee "Magie" error card -- the best copy in existence -- at $140,000 and an Old Mill Ty Cobb green portrait in a PSA 8 at $100,000.

The cards can be seen in the extensive gallery below and you can keep tabs on the auction by clicking here.

There should be plenty of fireworks for this one between now and their finale late next month.

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