1952 Rosen Mantle SGC 9.5 Final Price – Too high, too low, just right?

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Originally Posted by parkplace33

The Heritage 1952 Rosen Mantle SGC 9.5 sold Saturday for $12.6 million. Here is a new article about the sale: https://www.forbes.com/sites/carliep...h=6e4799033be2. I would like to get NET54’s thoughts on the price for this card.

I am in the camp of the price was too low. When I first saw the listing, I was sure it would go for close to $20 million. So while I get it was a record baseball card sale, I just thought with recent sky prices and the Mr. Mint storyline, it would have been more.

In other forums, I have seen the same argument made and here were the reasons why:

1. The grading company
2. The “toning” of the card
3. The auction house
4. Current inflation and stock market trends
5. Abundance of high end cards being recently auctioned off

I don’t think any of those really impacted the card (maybe number 5). It just a headscratcher to me on why it didn’t sell more.

What say you?

Something such as this Mantle are so far out of my range of owning, I just cannot say one way or another. It is like hitting the lottery on one side and buying a crapload of tickets on the other side and being off by one on each of the 6 numbers.

Just cannot begin to fathom if it is too much, not enough, or just right.

I'll stick to porridge.

Cheers,

Butch