Mickey mantle holiday inn specialists

[sflayank]

100 % not faded
I have in hand...not a chance ..100% guaranteed

[ALR-bishop]

A side question. I do not collect match books. Does any company grade them ? If not do sellers rate them like cards , P, VG, E, M or similar ? How much of a “grade” would relate to just the cover, and how much to the inside ? Do all the matches have to be present for the book to be mint ? Does the number of missing matches affect the “grade” ? Would missing matches make the book “altered” ?

[swarmee]

https://www.psacard.com/auctionprice...le%20matchbook
Here they are.

[sflayank]

U have to take the matches out to grade

[ALR-bishop]

Thanks Larry. What about ungraded, better with the matches ? I was never even sure if Wheaties boxes were more collectible with or without the cereal

[AustinMike]

Larry, I'm with Chris and Ben. I thought it was just faded. Do you have a picture of the back and inside?

[AustinMike]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

Thanks Larry. What about ungraded, better with the matches ? I was never even sure if Wheaties boxes were more collectible with or without the cereal

Al, as Larry said, PSA requires that the matches be removed. Ben has submitted some to Beckett and they do allow the matches to be kept in the matchbook. However, when they encase the matchbooks, they encase them with the matchbook closed. Therefore, any variation would be unidentifiable (Mantle Yoo-Hoo with the cap or book offer and Mantle Country Cookin' with the different addresses). For me personally, I don't buy matchbooks without at least some matches. I think PSA is performing a disservice requiring that the matches be removed. To me, that's like requiring the tab be removed from a Redman before they grade it.

[sflayank]

Matches inside...red tip
Regular green interior
Yellow Green and Red are completely gone
No sign of them....no fading of the tan or brown
If there was fading you would see pink, light green light yellow
Fading does not make colors completely disappear
It alters the color