Good question
I don't think I would want to keep the sheet. I would either cut it up or sell it.
I would be tempted to cut the sheet if (1) I knew that the sheet could be cut properly and the resulting cuts would not diminish the condition of any of the cards and (2) the surface (front and back) of the sheet (primarily the Mantles) was in pristine condition. I would sell duplicates to finance other cards. I'm not sure if I would ever be confident of (1), therefore I would probably not cut it and would end up selling the sheet to finance buying the '52 Topps Mantle and a '51 Bowman Mantle plus whatever else I could get.
My main reason for cutting the sheet would be because that is the way the cards were originally meant to be. I collect Post cereal cards from the '60s and I have many uncut panels/sheets of those cards. I like them in panels/sheets because that's the way they were available. Plus, they're small enough that they are easy to take care of and display. I also have the '84 Nestle set, the '85 Topps set, and many minor league team sets in uncut sheets. They are in my closet collecting dust. Too many to be able to afford to display them properly and not enough wall space to display them all even if they were in frames. So to me, another big sheet would be a no go, even one as nice as high series '52 Topps.
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