mantle
 

picked up this rarity...they all come with staple holes as attached to cookie bag

That's a sexy piece!!!

Wow!

Wow, amazing collection you have there. I love the way you have it displayed. And the two mantles just for the icing on the cake. LOL

Great pickup Larry. Insanely difficult to find and that one looks like a great example. If you'd ever like to sell it at a substantial loss, please let me know :)

Just saw the completed listing on eBay. It's insane what you got that for. Huge score!

Mantle dads
 

I overpaid chris

Just Back From PSA
 

Decent for grade

Yes, John- that's a really nice 51

Thanks Todd!





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David

Tony,

Love the 1953 Stahl Meyer! You won't ever regret getting that one. IMO, it is his best card.

judgebuck (David)

Great pick up Sir, ah the face of youth what can you say. Enjoy this item Larry it`s a beauty.

Thanks David! Probably my pickup of the year or years!

Tony

I posted this in BST by accident earlier but since it fits the theme here and I don't want to start another thread, and this should be the perfect spot for helping me identify my 'latest pickup':

Top Left: 1951 Wheaties (Thanks RedsFan1941)
Top Right: 1958-1961 Jay Pub Photos Type 1 Portrait (a friend off site)
Bottom Left: 1967 Topps Pin Up (Thanks Rats60)
Bottom Right: 1968 Topps Posters (thanks, again Rats60)


If possible, could someone give me an idea of their 'value'? I trust this board much more than any price guide...

Feels like I did pretty well on this lot already.

Picked up this recently.

Trying this.

Nice card. One of my favorites that I regrettably don't own!

1957 Mick
 

My favorite one yet and first from the 50s. I have all from the 60s except 62. I was so excited to come home today knowing this card was waiting for me. Love love LOVE IT. Scott

Nice P/U. :)

Thanks, Irv. :cool:

Big thumbs up on that card!

Thanks, Dave! This card is tickling the kid, historian, "investor", 57 set collector, and Mantle run collector g-spot in my brain all at once. Back to the hunt...

1963 Peel Off - Instruction Back
 

Half tempted to send this to PSA to see how they would grade it. Glad to pick this fun piece up, particularly at the price point. Interesting enough, while the back appears to be double-printed, it is roughly centered.

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Neither seem excited to be sharing the same card...

Have been looking for this card for a long time. Finally found the right condition at the right price!

Nice card!

Congrats. :)

First Mantle, but surely not my last!!
 

My Favorite Mantle Card, finally got one!!

Home from SGC and lookin sharp
 

Figured it belongs in this thread now that it's graded, despite also being pictured earlier in lot form...

Great looking card tuckr

Thanks man
 

Thanks man !! No creases, corner pretty beat up but love this card

1959 Topps

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1956 Topps

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1991 Score Auto /2500 (BGS 9)

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1951 Bowman RC (future 40th bday gift from my wife, so I cannot open it until November 2018)

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So you honestly didn't look at the whole card?!?! Sir, your self control is amazing.

I am probably the only one in the world that cares about this variation but still pleased to pick up the Canadian version of the magazine:

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I did, to make sure the card was good. My wife told me I just cannot take a full picture of it until my 40th birthday. This photo was taken right before she wrapped it up and placed in our safe. She said it's the only photo I can have. :)

It is just hilarious that Richard Burton and Liz are all dressed up in their Egyptian/Roman regalia, looking imperial and what not, and there's Dick smoking a butt!!! Luckily that shot didn't make it into the film. Ha ha!!

Just picked up the two PSA 2s to add to the others I had--one I bought raw and sent in and one I bought already graded:

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[QUOTE=Bestdj777;1656315]Just picked up the two PSA 2s to add to the others I had--one I bought raw and sent in and one I bought already graded:

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2 good to be true, Chris!:rolleyes: Hey, congratulations, bro. I remember a few years back when you were hotly pursuing this card, and placed your desire of the same on the bottom of every thread you posted. I won't ask you to divulge your plans, but I know you will make good choices all around.

Hope all is well for you and your growing family.:D

Best regards, Brian Powell

Thanks Brian! I remember those days. This was one of my white whales and I searched for ever before drastically overpaying for the PSA 1(MC). Since then, I haven't been able to resist grabbing them when I find them for a fair price. I think there are twenty total graded. So, I'll probably grab one more so I can have 25% of the graded population. At some point, I'm sure I'll sell or trade a couple of them as I don't "need" more than one. But I plan to enjoy the in the interim. Hope all is well with your family as well! My son says, "wahh!", which I'm assuming means hi?

My first signed Mantle.

Lot of really great Mantles. Dave and Tony, love your 1953 Stahl-Meyers.

Chris, unfortunately, you're not alone. I've also been looking for that. Congratulations on the pick-up.

When are you going to start your collection of one from every state? :eek:

Haha, shortly before my wife divorces me :)

Just got this in the mail: Mickey Mantle McFarlane Collectors Edition (2006)

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Who's the guy pictured on the box?

Ever so close to finally completing my NM 51-69 basic issue run (nope on the NM 52T:D)
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Nice card Dave. I couldn't afford to go NM on the early ones either. A centered NM 52 would be awesome though.

Not as awesome as driving around in a new Mercedes with a PSA 1 52 Topps in your pocket though.

1957 Topps Mickey Mantle

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The ghost of the Babe is strong with this one.

Hahahaha! Yes it is.

Ha not so sure about that. Let's say you pick up that S63 coupe (about the same value). A nice car, but in a couple years of years you'll lose half of your "investment", or more. I'll take the NM Mantle, though both are out of my league.

This one arrived today. An average grade card for us average collectors. Nice eye appeal though.

Jesse, there`s NOTHING average about that Bowman Mantle sir ! Great pickup and addition to your collection. Congrtas and enjoy it.

Thanks I'm very happy with it. The average card for average collectors comment is in response to one in another thread.

Great looking '51 Bowman Mantle Jesse! Definitely not an average card.

That 51 mantle! Love it! :)

Thanks guys. A very tough card to find centered.

I just got this in the mail today: 1958 Topps Mickey Mantle

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Nice one Reggie. I really like the 58s

Thanks!! :)

1962 Mick
 

I waited patiently for this one. 7s are the new 8s. :)

nice!

Scott, that is a sweet looking 62 Mantle. Worth wait for sure.

Reggie, Can you measure that card accurately? I have one that the grading company insists has been trimmed(!). Mine is wider than 2.5", but shorter than 3.5". I'm trying to get a standard deviation of the 58 Mantle dimensions. His location on the printing sheet suggests that he could always be wider (being on the end of a row), but that any miscut vertically could always make a short 3.5" height (being in the middle of the sheet vertically he could be cut short at top and bottom). Thanks!

Below my Mantle's that just arrived back from Uncle Psa.

52 Topps Mantle
 

Well boys, anyone want to venture a guess what this 52 Mantle closes at later tonite ? the bidding to a MAJOR step last nite and should be interesting by close.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/262992638279...%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

I haven't been following them lately, but when I first seen it, I thought likely over $200K.

20 something minutes to go, I think it may just reach that, maybe even over?

Edit: Very surprised it did not go higher, and even more surprised there were no snipe or closing time bids?

My all time favorite 60's Mantle

Awww. I'm so sorry. After I take a photo of my card in a one touch, it goes in a top loader & penny sleeve, then gets sealed in a "perfect fit sleeve" with clear postal tape on the back. So sorry. :(

I do remember the card being slightly "diamond cut" after cracking it out of the PSA case. You can see it a bit in my one touch photo. The long cut is slanted a little to the left.

1964 Challenge The Yankees
 

That's a real gem, Johnny-what a great pickup

Not a card, but a Mick:

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A Mickey Mantle print I hung up in my Man Cave:

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That's cool!!!!!

Thanks Dave :-) love that card

Very, Very Nice!

pop 1
 

It isn't a 52 Mantle, but my 60's Holiday Inn business card is the only one PSA slabbed and they will not be grading/slabbing them in the future. Pretty cool to have a Pop. 1 only graded Mantle :) It is in the Red section of the Master set with (No Longer Grading). Bought raw from a Net54 member.

Can you show a picture of the back? I "think" mine is different.

back
 

Here you go Chris. There is a beige business card too that shows up a lot as reprinted fakes.

1955 Bowman Mickey Mantle

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thanks!

1954 Bowman Mickey Mantle

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Dormand Mick

That's a nice 54, Reggie

Thanks!

I also came home with this after a card show today:

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Hey Kris! Thanks for sharing your beautiful Dormand Postcard of Mickey. I have always loved Dormands, ever since I sent away for a starter group from Wholesale Cards Co. out of New York / New Jersey in about 1969. Bruce Yeko included this version of Mickey Mantle with the group. Personally, I have always favored this pose. Think of it this way, bro. At the time Louis Dormand first issued this postcard, 1953-54, and for many, many years afterwards, collectors did not have much of anything to preserve their condition.

They would do whatever came to mind:

1. Pin it, tack it, nail it to their bedroom wall.

2. Tape it to their bedroom wall.

3. Tape it, or glue it, into a scrapbook, or perhaps use those black art corners to CAREFULLY mount it in their scrapbook.

4. Since Dormands were over-sized, as compared to mainstream bubble gum cards, you could not store them easily with your gum cards. So, if you had several Dormands, you wrapped them in rubber bands. In so doing, you gave them several "good" notches on their sides, thus giving their condition a notch or two below mint. In addition to the notching from a tight rubber band, a wrapped bunch of Dormands would be jammed in the back of a shoe box, or on top. With all the handling and jostling, corners would get bumped all the time, as a pinball machine in play, "ding, ding, ding..." Instead of adding points to your total, the dings in essence were deducting points from its future PSA grade!

5. You might simply place the card on your dresser, as a boys' version of a Monet painting. Let's hope it didn't get handled too much when it was shown to friends who wanted to admire it more closely. The card might catch on something when it was picked up, or put down. Catch on?

6. IF they were displayed on a wall, a problem might begin to attack it, without even physically touching it. Daylight. Specifically, the ultraviolet rays of the sun would start to work on it, depending upon the vicinity of where it was placed, in relation to the sun's rays. If it got a "good" dose of sun on a daily basis, after a few months, the rich colors would begin to fade. Call it cardboard color ker-blammo. Permanent damage. Permanent regret.

The perils of the over-sized card. These are among the facets of distinction I bring out in my E-book on a CD, NEVER CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN. If you think I'm just trying to get you to buy my book, I already found this never works; after a year's time with just 28 sales, I concluded most collectors are either too much of a lardhead to appreciate a good hobby book when they see it, or too much of a cursed cheapskate.

Let's just say I am trying to get you to appreciate the fact your elegant Mickey Mantle postcard is in pretty nice shape, all things considered.

Congratulations, Kris. Be happy!;)

Take care. ----Brian Powell