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Originally Posted by Doug
It's not prewar, but I was watching a SGC 50 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle on eBay last night and was shocked to see it sell for "only" $8626 when I expected it to go for $10,000-$11,000. It was a pretty solid looking VGEX, but the centering was about 80/20 side to side. Either someone got a deal or the centering killed the price. Especially after that well centered SGC 30 in the last Goodwin auction went for $10,555.
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I like cards with great centering and go after them more than ones with sharper corners and not so great centering. I think we had a recent poll and the "sharp corners" folks just slightly outnumbered the "centering" folks. The '52 Topps Mantle seems to be notorious for poor centering and if I ever decide to get one my decision will be based on several things with centering being very important.