M114 photos

[raulus]

Originally Posted by doug.goodman

While what you said it logical, it isn't necessarily true. If you search m114 psa on ebay you will see a few incredibly overpriced examples of severely trimmed m114s which all received number grades from everybody's favorite seller of opinions.

Not really that surprising since the first card they graded was also trimmed.
Doug

I’ll be damned. I did find 3 M114s in PSA holders on eBay, all for Mantle (or his team “card”), all trimmed, and all asking 5 figures. So I guess there’s good money to be made in M114s after all!

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by raulus

I’ll be damned. I did find 3 M114s in PSA holders on eBay, all for Mantle (or his team “card”), all trimmed, and all asking 5 figures. So I guess there’s good money to be made in M114s after all!

Well, they will only make "good money" if some idiot gets drunk enough to hit the buy-it-now for a severely trimmed item. Based on the length of time those have been listed I'm not sure that the seller(s) will be vacationing with their profits very soon.

For anybody interested in the ones on ebay, here is mine next to a slabbed one, let me know which one you perfer. Price is the same, hahahaha.

Insert smiley face here.

Doug


PS - according to the pop reports for our favorite opinion seller, there are 21 m114s in slabs. All are Yankees. All are "hand cut". There are multiples of each Mantle pose from ebay (but none of his third pose), and I would guess that each pose was resubmitted until it got a '2' so there are really fewer of them in total. Note that they are not called m114 on the slab, only Baseball Magazine posters.

[puckpaul]

Really quality work by PSA

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by puckpaul

Really quality work by PSA

As is their forte.

[vthobby]

Originally Posted by doug.goodman

As is their forte.

P recisely
S liced
A rtifacts

[Lorewalker]

Hilarious...They designate them as Hand Cut...These were not meant to be cut...these are trimmed and likely so they fit into a scrapbook. The Hand Cut designation I thought was for cards that were intended to be cut like strip cards, Bazooka, Post, etc.

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by Lorewalker

Hilarious...They designate them as Hand Cut...These were not meant to be cut...these are trimmed and likely so they fit into a scrapbook. The Hand Cut designation I thought was for cards that were intended to be cut like strip cards, Bazooka, Post, etc.

I agree that it's hilarious, and with most of your other points, but I disagree that they were trimmed for a scrapbook. I would bet that they were trimmed in advance of the purchase of the opinions.