Your best bet would likely be to consign the ‘52 set to a major auction house and use part of the proceeds to buy a Mantle for the ‘51 Bowman set. The auction house will get the better cards graded at a reasonable price and would sell those cards individually and would lot up the rest in probably a low number raw lot and a high number raw lot. You can probably get a zero consignment rate. You will get whatever the best value is for the set by doing that. I doubt $60K is possible but if you cannot complete the ‘52 Topps set which would cost probably $60K more to complete in VG you could capitalize on the partial set and complete the Bowman set with a lot of spare cash.
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