The hobby’s most iconic card under $15k?

[JollyElm]

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[Republicaninmass]

Interesting people still allowing multiples of the same card in low mid grade in the same auction.

Imo nothing as iconic as the 52 mantle. Better cards of better players, sure. But topps is still around and for all intents and purposes, this was their first issue. Like the first Corvette, not the best, but the first

Save up, wait for the crash...buy the mantle with cash.



It might not be a 90% but look for the right card when people need to sell. Not like you need a mantle today...thankfully. grossly overpriced IMO. More than enough to go around, people are just flipping week to week, auction to auction passing to the greater fool, or someone who both sold and bought the inflated pricing. I love it and glad I cashed in. My psa a, auto 6 signed 52 mantle did over 100k . No regrets on that on3

[MVSNYC]

Zach Wheat- thanks!

[Exhibitman]

1949 Bowman Robinson, Doby and Paige. Score the first three great NL stars into the majors. Maybe get a Campy if you have a few bucks left. FWIW, I think the recognition of these early NL pioneer MLB players is only going to go up as time passes. The 1952 T Robinson also is a great choice. It is one of his nicest cards.

[cammb]

1933 Delong. gehrig

[MBMiller25]

Fun thread Jeff, Thank you for starting this. All of your choices are very iconic cards within the hobby.

I would go with the Goudey Ruth #149 as my first choice and Cobb Red Portrait in like 4.5-5 range for my second choice. The Green Cobb Portrait would be an excellent choice as well, but I would want one with high eye appeal in the lower 2 grade that 15K would afford you and you will certainly get that with the 4.5 or 5 on the Red portrait. Good Luck! I hope you share whatever it is you decide.

[Belfast1933]

Update on my plan… and a question for this smart group!

My adult son is my trusted advisor and partner in fun on this journey and he LOVES the 51 Bowman Mantle (logic, I already have the iconic Cobb Portait Cobb and the full body ‘33 Goudey Ruth. Solid logic!)

Here is my question - totally boring but important. Since I’ll probably need to liquidate ~$15k or so of my current collection to build funds to buy the Mantle, for tax and capital gains issues, is it worth trying to find a Mantle seller who might consider at least a partial trade?

That could lower my capital gains risk on the sale of my current cards, right?

(Sorry, told you it was boring&#129315

Jeff