With the crazy market, what will this iconic card bring?

[Scocs]

I say north of $500K. The guy with the #1 PSA set will want to solidify his position, while the guys with numbers #2 and #3 will want to catapult over him.

[rhettyeakley]

I always find it fun to watch other people spend "rich-people" money! As if spending 500K or 1M on a 1953 Topps card makes sense in any way shape or form.

Card doesn't look like a 10 to me, especially after those blow up images but I can see some pretty spirited money because of the number. I have never really thought of the 1953 Willie Mays as a truly iconic card so I imagine the final price may suffer a bit more than most think IMO. Maybe 250K or so in today's insane market (that being said I reserve the right to be totally wrong ).

I have never really liked the 1953 Mays card, it usually has a blurry look to it, never really seen one that I thought had a truly crisp image (this one included).

[brian1961]

That's a dynamite Willie Mays. With its centering however, it wasn't Darth Grader in the hot seat. Whoever had the privilege, and pressure, of grading that gem must have been enjoying, carefully, his delightfully flavored late morning coffee!

Since PSA allows, fortunately for the owner, not to mention the rest of us, a bit of off-centeredness when grading a card a "10", the final outcome will still be shadowed by the centering. I know deep pockets buys the double-digit gem pasteboards, but if we see such a, what appears to us at least, a glaring discrepancy, the select company of wealthy card connoisseurs will too, and not reward it with high six figures.

After all, they would never want to be thought of, referred to, whispered of, nor spoken of, as a double-digit idiot. Oh, I must emphasize something important about my usage of "idiot" here; it is pronounced "ID-GIT", as our friend Yosemite Sam beautifully butchered the word.

--Brian Powell

[glynparson]

The chipping above the number is not wear but due to the cutting process and would not downgrade the card. The upper right back corner does however look very slightly bumped. I would rather see it loupes as sometimes it isn't bumped but looks it. I still can't say it's a bad grade and if I had the funds and was after a 1953 mays I wouldn't mind owning that card. Looks like a legitimate unaltered from those two corners anyways.

[pokerplyr80]

Which do you guys think brings the most, the 10 Ryan, 10 Rose, 10 56 Mantle, 10 53 Mays or the 7 Ruth RC?

[ullmandds]

10 rose

[pokerplyr80]

Looks like heritage is estimating 800k plus for the Mays. My guess for the highest would be the Ruth.