sweet Dan-Dee!

lot of home runs here ....

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A couple of fairly rare cards:

1 of 3 graded (traded a 1 of 1 Mantle for this to help someone complete their set):
http://i1345.photobucket.com/albums/...psd8zsqp3l.jpg

Doubt there are many of these:
http://i1345.photobucket.com/albums/...psbc114564.jpg

http://i1345.photobucket.com/albums/...ps9ed8dee9.jpg

That 57 is fantastic, Jeff

Thanks, it's real and it's spectacular. :D

I love the 51 & 53 Bowmans. Hope to pick those up one of these days. Here's the few I have...

http://www.collectingbrooklyn.com/net54/mantles.jpg

bloody hell...:eek::eek::eek:


I've shown this one on here before but hey it's my only Mantle (so far) and was actually a gift from my wife which makes it that much better for me :)

http://i936.photobucket.com/albums/a...psa822fd90.jpg

Justin, that '63 Mantle pops of color!!!

mid50's, you have an awesome wife to to find a '56 that looks so nice and then spring to get the card as a gift for you! Sounds like you have 2 keepers there!!

Don't think I'll ever part with this one !

My $15.00 Mantle.
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Very cool!

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Bob,
Do you have the elusive 69 white letter signed? Here are a few of my Mantle's.

http://i1039.photobucket.com/albums/...psufkccjak.jpg
http://i1039.photobucket.com/albums/...psunj1p96r.jpg

WOW! :cool:

WOW, kirk...nice collection!!!!

These 2 came from antique shows/stores here in st paul in the last year.

Bob Cracker Jack is on the run!! Can't find him!! 😁

Wow taxman!! Your collection is off the hook man!!

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Few more Mick.
http://i1039.photobucket.com/albums/...pslv4cmavk.jpg
http://i1039.photobucket.com/albums/...psipnbcvwg.jpg

Taxman, I like your style.

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I'll trade addresses with you. ;) Supposedly there are only 3 white letter signed.

A few Micks I haven't seen posted yet.

Still looking for a nice '59 Bazooka Mantle, Peter, if anyone, Peter, has one, Peter, they, Peter, want to sell to me. :D

Amazing collections and card posts!

I didn't know you had a Post Canadian panel Mike?!?! How is that not in my collection? I say you be a good friend a gift that one to me :). I've got a really beat 1964 Topps Giant I could trade you :)

Recent Mantle additions. Great idea for a thread by the way.

Awesome Micks, Pokerplyr! As good as it gets on the 1951. Better than some higher grades. That 1953 looks dead to rights centered. The 62 and 57 were the ones you posted from MattyC, right? I can tell they were his from the centering! Man that 62 looks like a 9 from this distance!!!!!!

Thanks yeah the 57 and 62 were both from MattyC, he has a great eye. I haven't seen a nicer one for the grade in either case. I don't have any that I hadn't shared elsewhere but thought I should add something to this new Mantle thread.

The first Mantle I ever bought was a Red Heart. I really love the image of a happy, youthful Mick. Very excited to have upgraded it with this Heritage win:
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wowsers!!!!!

I think that is why I like the 56 Topps card so much. Mickey looks real happy in that pic and it's a great shot of him.

Just wish I had of purchased one months ago instead of trying to find an affordable now. :(

Dave, heartiest of congratulations on this acquisition. I could look at that gem all day. Come on SGC, why not a 98 GEM!?!?!?!? At least PSA will reward cards with a Gem MInt 10 here and there, but you guys VIRTUALLY NEVER DO!

I know, I know, they must have spotted SOMETHING on the backside to give it "just" the 96 MINT. Grading, after all, involves the whole card, and not just the most important front side.

Regardless Dave, even better than the near-perfect centering are the outstanding colors and picture registry. In the coin world, as I remember they term that "a perfect strike", which this Mantle blasts out of the park!!!

As Maurice Chevalier said in that wonderful Disney movie, In Search of the Castaways, ENZHOY IT!:D

Thanks for sharing this masterpiece Red Heart Mickey Mantle with us. ---Brian Powell

Fantastic Mantles, guys!!

The thing that gets me about the cards Bob posts, like the signed '52 Topps, is... where the hell does he find these?? :)

Here's a Mantle from the collection

http://i.imgur.com/piMi5F0.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/MJX8yWp.jpg

Great card Chuck!
 

Nice 51 Bowman Mantle.

That signed contract is really cool, and I don't remember seeing a nicer psa 2 51 Mantle.

I agree here. This looks more like a 3 compared to my bvg2 I have. Maybe it the tape mark on the reverse that doomed it. NICE!!

A raw '55 Bowman
 

The '54 Red Heart previously shown was wonderful. All of the posts in this thread were great to view. I got this Bowman example from a local guy who pulled it from a pack as a kid. A true story.

The 54 has grown on me a lot. Looking for the right one. I can't remember if I've ever pulled a Mantle. Likely would have to have been a 69. Nice story, Dennis

Damn, that's an awesome 2 !!

The Red Heart is off the charts.

Here are my two.http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...031d679cb4.jpghttp://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...2ec1d78ecb.jpg

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Finally got Mick out of the cube he had been in for over 25 yrs.

Pics/scans look much better now imo. (sorry about the Mays, I didn't think to take singles when I freed them both from their cubes)

1964-66 Rawlings Premium Photos
 

You guys make me wistful - so many Mantles I don't own anymore. Here's one that hasn't been shown yet...pardon the water damage, adds "character". (went to another board member recently but I don't think he'd mind me posting it).

Drool worthy! :cool:

3 of my favorites that I haven't seen posted yet.