1950's Mantle Run Complete! - SCAN HEAVY!

[Bunker]

Originally Posted by MattyC

Thx, fellas! I just know I'm gonna cave and seek out a nicely centered 1960 Topps Mick-- and the slope is slippery from there!

The 60 Topps Mantle is one of my favorite cards so I hope you do cave! The centering and registration on your cards are awesome, you have a great eye (and I bet a lot of patience)

If you do cave on the 60 you may as well keep going, you have all the big dollar monsters behind you.

[MBMiller25]

So......This is not my money, so its easy to make this next comment, but I have been thinking about it, and think you need to complete the entire run. You love Mantle, and have knocked out all the difficult and terribly expensive cards. There are not many people out there that can say they have every base card for Mantle.

[pawpawdiv9]

i tried that myself..it got too expensive..If i had to re-do it..i would of only went for the major cards. Thats one of the reasons i been selling off my other base cards and stuff over the past several months.
If there was one thing i had to re-do..was going for the 1963 plaque/mask i was gonna win in auction. It was a rare piece and unique in every way...but spending over 5k on it was a deciding factor to save up for the 52 #311 RC...worth it? everyday

[Bestdj777]

Originally Posted by pawpawdiv9

i tried that myself..it got too expensive..If i had to re-do it..i would of only went for the major cards. Thats one of the reasons i been selling off my other base cards and stuff over the past several months.

You'll be back If I could do it over again, not sure if I would have gone for the complete run or just focused on the major cards myself. When I see a collection like this, it makes me wish I had focused my funds a bit more. Although I really like the look of 95% of my regional, foreign issue, rare inserts, some of my base cards are atrocious (i.e. I only have the circle portion of the 59 Topps...If anyone has a spare border they would like to part with...).

[pawpawdiv9]

I know, i got the fever...we all do it seems.
right now, its just selling mode, or until i hit the lottery.
Its hard to focus on 1 thing, when i see all these great cards iin here.
Last year, i finally found a card shop, and i took my brother, We literally spent several hours drooling over cards..i wished i went thru the older cards. He had them seperaltly in boxes by era and years. Did not go thru the t206 stuff to even see what he had. He did have a old joe jackson with a 1k price...so i only imagine what high-end stuff he had tucked away.