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Originally Posted by GasHouseGang
I saw this Xmas pack. It appears to have a fake Mantle. Not sure about the other cards.
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I'd picked up one of those Christmas Packs years ago, really cheap, just to have one as a sort of fantasy piece. Mine is all 1968 Topps cards, but no stars or HOFers showing. The packaging is exactly the same, colors and images, as on that 1952 Christmas pack, and is also exactly the same on every other one of these I ever remember seeing, regardless of the year the cards are from. The cards are real, and generally looked to be in pretty nice shape, just a re-pack of Topps cards by someone other than Topps. That '52 Mantle in the Christmas Pack you're showing can't be real though, right? By the time whoever started putting these re-packs together began doing this, I have to believe that a real '52 Mantle would have already been too valuable by that time for them to have intentionally included a real one.