Value of '52 Topps Mantle in 1973?

[HolyGrail]

Thanks, Larry.

I have prices in the '80s, but not in the early 1970s.

But this will fill out my timeline.

David

[trdcrdkid]

This thread has info about the price of 1952 Topps Mantles in 1977-78:

http://net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=243152

[rats60]

It wasn't listed in my 70s catalogs. I have catalogs from the 60s that had it for 1.00 and the first Beckett from 1979 has it at 500.00.

[HolyGrail]

Thanks, David

I have a really good baseball card history book from 1976 that lists it at $50.

This thread will help fill out my info for the late 1970s. And there's a lot of other great material here on other cards, as well.

Early 70s still my holy grail. I may ask Mike Aaronstein who put on the NYC shows I attended back then with my dad.

David

[trdcrdkid]

Until the mid-70s, no individual card from the 1950s sold for more than around $50, or even $25. I remember seeing an ad from 1975 or 1976 selling 1951 Bowman Mantle and Mays for $25 each. It wouldn't have been significantly different from that in 1973. I have a more or less complete run of the major hobby publications from the early 70s, and I could look sometime and see if there were ads selling 1952 Topps Mantles.

[riggs336]

I was offered an autographed 1952 Topps Mantle for $75 in 1974. Naturally I passed.

[HolyGrail]

Your info is really helpful. Am trying to determine when the cachet began. I believe it was about the time he was inducted into the HOF in '74.

As you know, in the mid-late 60s catalogs which you've posted on Net54, the '52 Mantle was listed as a high-series common.

You wrote: “Maybe he thought that since they were already selling for a premium, it wasn't fair to charge a double premium; or maybe he didn't have 52 Topps high numbers in stock consistently enough to worry about pricing individual cards.”

I'm also wondering if this was partly due to Mantle's faded glory on lousy teams in the late 1960s. There were bigger stars. And other cards like the Wagner, Plank, and Lajoie seemed to have cachet from the start.

As someone said of the "52 Mantle in their response, "the power of marketing."

[Johnny630]

If it was a high number common how difficult really was the card ? This adds fuel to my beliefs that the whole Dumping in the Hudson River story was total Kabookie Theater. Either way I love this thread ! So cool to know the history of the hobbies pricing.

[Hxcmilkshake]

Originally Posted by riggs336

I was offered an autographed 1952 Topps Mantle for $75 in 1974. Naturally I passed.

Wow. That i don't think I could've forgiven myself for ....

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