Commerce Comet's 1952 Topps #311 meteoric rise in value

[Snowman]

Originally Posted by MattyC

Snowman,

Great looking card. Hits the eye splendidly. You won't ever regret having stepped up for one that you enjoy looking at every day.

I remember when I went way, way outside the VCP grid at the time to get mine; strangers literally posted that I was stupid. (Which is not surprising given the cesspool of incivility that is the internet most of the time, LOL. No idea why people take time out of their lives to slight what another guy buys for his personal collection.) Anyways I'd done my homework, shopped for a while, and cataloged how few examples had the centering I wanted to look at every day. So having seen quite a bunch of the slabbed examples, your AUTH example has eye appeal available in very few examples that don't cost a king's ransom.

Here's mine, pictured below. Actually wound up meeting the man who pulled it from a pack in 1952 (good side of the internet) and speaking with him at length one day with my son— he even allowed us to record the conversation for posterity. Was amazing to be able to trace a card that old to its pack and to the neighborhood and store where it was pulled. (Seeing how the man later drove it to PSA himself for slabbing, it also became a nice provenance chain proving no alterations in this era of rampant doctoring

That's one of the best-looking Mantles I've seen in any holder. Congrats on the find, and such a great story too. I've never been one to care what the masses think. Glad to see the same approach worked for you as well.

[investinrookies]

Two nice examples end tonight at REA, will be interesting to see where they finish at.

[Foo3112]

Curious on how your card ended up on display. Did you reach out to them and how long does it end up on display for?

There is currently a PSA 6 over at Heritage that's currently at 138K (with BP) with 7 days to go. Looks like its on its way to hit over 150K.

https://sports.ha.com/itm/baseball/1...umbnail-071515

[MattyC]

It was on display for a couple of months as I recall. I was contacted by one of the exhibit curators; they had looked at a few higher grade examples but wanted one that was centered with a rich blue, if that could be found with no wrinkles or creases. A dealer they were consulting had shown them a picture of mine; I was thrilled to have been asked. I guess the curator quickly saw how tough the card was in terms of centering and tilt, lol.

As thanks for donating it, they made a custom bat for my son and when the exhibit was done, they also gave me a giant wall-sized canvas banner they had made for the exhibit; it showed a huge image of a 52T Mantle with characters from Star Wars beside it. I wound up cutting the Mantle out of the banner and today the massive 52T canvas Mantle hangs in my son's room. Good vibe.

[Foo3112]

Thanks for sharing that info. Pretty cool.

[Snowman]

Originally Posted by MattyC

It was on display for a couple of months as I recall. I was contacted by one of the exhibit curators; they had looked at a few higher grade examples but wanted one that was centered with a rich blue, if that could be found with no wrinkles or creases. A dealer they were consulting had shown them a picture of mine; I was thrilled to have been asked. I guess the curator quickly saw how tough the card was in terms of centering and tilt, lol.

As thanks for donating it, they made a custom bat for my son and when the exhibit was done, they also gave me a giant wall-sized canvas banner they had made for the exhibit; it showed a huge image of a 52T Mantle with characters from Star Wars beside it. I wound up cutting the Mantle out of the banner and today the massive 52T canvas Mantle hangs in my son's room. Good vibe.

That's awesome!

[investinrookies]

4 more ending tonight at Heritage including a PSA 6 up to $144k.

[Gorditadogg]

Originally Posted by investinrookies

Two nice examples end tonight at REA, will be interesting to see where they finish at.

So I am guessing they are yours?

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