OK guys
Here is the Quintessential wax-pack scenario......
A cool day in the Fall of 1952, a day I still remember quite well. My neighbor, Johnny, tells me that our neighborhood pharmacy has the TOPPS Hi# cards available.
By then, I had 270 cards (of the 310 issued). I was not interested in completing the set. I just wanted to have all the Yankees in it, especially Mickey Mantle.
I had a Quarter in my pocket, so we went to the pharmacy and I get 5 packs. The first 4 packs I opened had mostly Hi # commons and semi-stars.
I carefully opening the 5th pack, I slowly shuffled thru the cards, and lo and behold, the card in the middle was Mickey.
All five of these cards are the original cards out of that 5th wax-pack. This wrapper is not the original one.
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TED Z
T206 Reference
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