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Originally Posted by MattyC
Ted,
That is so awesome, to have the very wrapper it came from. Exceedingly rare aspect to any card that old. Also love how much passion you clearly have for it!
I do not have the wrapper from the pack mine came from; though I do have a lovely recorded interview of its one prior owner talking to my son and I about the day he pulled it, how the pack was bought with money from his paper route, the store where he bought the pack, the town— and even how he hit the town's first little league homer!
Wish I could have pulled it myself— indeed I have always have felt like I was born in the wrong decade!
Here is mine. Why pay an extra $10,000,000 just for CORNERS! 
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Matt
The 1952 TOPPS wrapper on display is not the original one which I pulled Mantle from.
However, here are the original 4 cards that were in the 5-cent wax-pack with Mantle.
I can recall that moment 70 years ago as if it just occurred yesterday.
Matt, I appreciate your kind words.
TED Z
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