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Posted By: barrysloate

For those who don't remember, when Mr. whatever-his-name-is first offered the cards from the case for sale, the Mantles were priced at $2500 and $3500 each, I guess depending on the centering. He also offered complete runs of high numbers and semi-high numbers. I don't remember the exact price of those, but a complete high number run may have been around $8000. Since #311-313 are double-printed, there were of course some extra Mantles to be had. They sold briskly at those prices- they were high at the time but not totally extravagant. I guess we all should have bought a couple and somehow held onto them for twenty years.

And I agree with Paul that the difference between a 9 and a 10 is to a degree whether the grader had a good night's sleep or didn't show up to work the next day with a hangover. That's why the price discrepancy at those levels is truly remarkable (and not terribly sensible either).