'52 Mantle help

[Kiddk1]

hello, I am new here, I just picked up some mantle cards at auction. I know there are plenty of counterfeits and I am planning on sending this card in to PSA but wanted your opinion. It has all the signs of being legit except no missing blue pixel

Thank you

https://app.box.com/s/piheablth30s53dspgx70sc1x4yapvoa

https://app.box.com/s/god4wdejjhyjqk78r3eijkrdd7f6zw0y
https://app.box.com/s/god4wdejjhyjqk78r3eijkrdd7f6zw0y
https://app.box.com/s/piheablth30s53dspgx70sc1x4yapvoa

[Stonepony]

Interesting....but if there is no missing pixel it's a fake.

[Kiddk1]

Interesting....but if there is no missing pixel it's a fake.

Thank you, the reason I asked is because there is no mention here when addressing the variations
https://www.tradingcarddb.com/ViewCard.cfm/sid/26/cid/2506

[Peter_Spaeth]

There used to be a comprehensive guide online but it has disappeared. Variation B definitely has a missing pixel.

[Peter_Spaeth]

This is pretty good.
http://bbcemporium.com/1952-topps-mickey-mantle-counterfeit-guide/

[Bestdj777]

Top left corner looks artificially aged.

[STL1944]

Hope for your sake it is real, but at first blush it looks like it might be a reproduction. Just look at the differences in the Yankee logos:

[irv]

Hope for your sake it is real, but at first blush it looks like it might be a reproduction. Just look at the differences in the Yankee logos:

Those are the 2 different types, Type 1 and 2.
Here's a type 2 to compare it to.

[Kiddk1]

Thank you
Held a black light to it and you can see thru it
Dont know if that’s normal

[mckinneyj]

Thank you
Held a black light to it and you can see thru it
Dont know if that’s normal

Probably a counterfeit. Use your light source on some other gray stock 52T and compare. Authentic 52Ts are opaque when using a bright white light so no front image is seen from the back - I'd expect the same with black but have never tested.

[Peter_Spaeth]

It does not have the missing pixel. Game set match IMO for a variation B.

[KCRfan1]

If you can see thru the card it's fake.

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

I love that we call it a missing pixel even though it was printed in a time when pixels, as we mean them today, didn't exist.

I'm surprised there are so many here who think it's a good fake (at least nobody thinks it's real) the fuzziness on the front especially of the lettering and tooling screams reproduction image, to me anyway.

[Kiddk1]

Thanks for all the advice, you can definitely see thru the card