Back in the late 1990's, at a large, local, long-running, monthly flea market that my wife and I set up at for several years, in the afternoon after most of the shoppers had left, I went around to see what the other dealers had for sale at their tables. One general-purpose dealer had 5 or 6 baseball cards on one of his tables, including the scarce 1953-54 Briggs Meats Mickey Mantle card on the right in the first pic below (with his $50 price sticker on it). The dealer didn't think it was a baseball card but figured it had to be worth something because it had Mantle on it. He was only too thrilled to quickly accept my $20 offer! The second pic below shows this card after SGC slabbed it.
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Seeking very scarce/rare cards for my Sam Rice master collection, e.g., E210 York Caramel Type 2 (upgrade), 1931 W502, W504 (upgrade), W572 sepia, W573, 1922 Haffner's Bread, 1922 Keating Candy, 1922 Witmor Candy Type 2 (vertical back), 1926 Sports Co. of Am. with ad & blank backs. Also 1917 Merchants Bakery & Weil Baking cards of WaJo. Also E222 cards of Lipe, Revelle & Ryan.
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