Mantle or Others?

[investinrookies]

52T Mantle all day long, no question in my mind. However, not just any 52T mantle, it must be centered with good registration, which will be very hard to find especially in the 30k range.

[thecomebacker]

Originally Posted by investinrookies

52T Mantle all day long, no question in my mind. However, not just any 52T mantle, it must be centered with good registration, which will be very hard to find especially in the 30k range.

Agree with him. You won’t be able to find a perfectly centered 52 Topps Mantle for 30k anymore even if it is a PSA 2.5 unless you hit one of those hidden treasures in an estate sale or something. Nice 52 Mantles shot up like mad during Covid. Anything nicely centered (not perfect) with nice eye appeal is probably 40k and up now. The same card was probably 25-30k at the beginning of the year. You’ll still be able to get a nice 52 for 30k, but probably won’t be as nice and centered as you were hoping. Either way 52 Topps Mickey all day and night over the others.

[investinrookies]

Originally Posted by thecomebacker

Agree with him. You won’t be able to find a perfectly centered 52 Topps Mantle for 30k anymore even if it is a PSA 2.5 unless you hit one of those hidden treasures in an estate sale or something. Nice 52 Mantles shot up like mad during Covid. Anything nicely centered (not perfect) with nice eye appeal is probably 40k and up now. The same card was probably 25-30k at the beginning of the year. You’ll still be able to get a nice 52 for 30k, but probably won’t be as nice and centered as you were hoping. Either way 52 Topps Mickey all day and night over the others.

Centered 52T mantles have become next to impossible to find and very few are perfectly centered. When a nice centered example does pop up it normally commands a huge premium over the average prices for the grade, in most cases at least double if not more. The 52T mantle is THE card to get and defines the hobby, if your going to pony up the cash for one it makes the most since to be patient and save more money for a centered copy. As I’ve said and it’s mentioned above, a nicely centered example will cost you well over 30K if you can even find one. Don’t look for a specific grade just go for centering and overall eye appeal which make that card in my opinion.


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[investinrookies]

A couple nice 52T Mantles up at PWCC...the SGC 4 is especially nice with that centering. To my point in my last post, that thing is going to go way over the average price, so hard to find like that. The 6.5 is also nice with good centering better than most, but the SGC 4 is a thing of beauty....

[Tomi]

This one just sold for $38K with the BP at Heritage last month.

[investinrookies]

Originally Posted by Tomi

This one just sold for $38K with the BP at Heritage last month.

that one has decent centering

[jchcollins]

If you are buying purely for investment and a collection of any sort to enjoy more than one card is not a concern, then yes - go for the '52 Mantle. There are others which might do as well as an investment piece, but hard to think of a single card apt to do better.

Me personally, it's about the cards. Not that I can afford a '52 Mantle anyway, but if I could I would have misgivings about spending it all just on one card.