I do not collect '52s, but agree with Jeff that this one isn't even close. Almost nothing about that card looks genuine to me. The most tell-tale sign is the supposed creasing. There is no way any 60 year-old card can have those severe "creases" and at the same time display ex-mt or stronger corners and edges with ZERO surface wear. Never mind the saturated colors.
If you took a new modern card today and sat on it, folded it or whatever to create such creasing, you MIGHT be able to pull off a look like that. Now tell me it's 1952 and you would carefully take care of such a damaged card for even 10 years--let's say while Mickey was excelling and you realized your only '52 card of him was creased-- so as to keep the corners/edges nice and the colors looking brand new. Then think that it's 1962, and while good hobby supplies are 15 years or so away, you're not going to handle it and will preserve it even longer, presumably while you've handled your other '52s and all subsequent cards like any other young collector. Fast forward decades more and voila, you've successfully saved this specimen from its early catastrophe and are now ready to offer it up to a loving hobby home. Now tell me that your wife is Morgan Fairchild--yeah, that's the ticket.
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