Help with this 52 Topps Mantle

[Fuddjcal]

Originally Posted by samosa4u

Whoa, whoa, whoa ... what the heck is going on here? So Ted posts this SGC 3 Mantle above and tells people it's from his master set, and yet Chuck owns the exact same one?

Based on the scans Chuck posted, it looks like that crease on the Yankees logo has been pressed out. The colors also look a little bit faded, so the card might have been soaked for a while.

Chuck, I want you to tilt this Mantle of yours under a lamp - is that crease on the Yankees logo completely gone?

No, the pic I have was taken by a camera with light.

The scan was taken from my reg HP scanner with the contrast up a little.

The card looks the same to me as Ted Z's with the crease. The crease was definitely there when I bought it. This helped me to determine it was the
same card and someone was NOT tryin to take the crease out.

The picture with the light, definitely hides the crease and mutes the blue, that's for sure.