New to the hobby 1961 Topps Dice cards Mantle Highest Graded!

[whiteymet]

Gentlemen:

Thought you all would be interested in seeing new to the hobby 1961 ( though they are actually from 1963) Topps Dice Cards. Not back from PSA yet, just graded yesterday. See:

https://www.psacard.com/psasetregist...timeset/549026

Included is only the third Mantle graded and this is the highest!

All four will be finding new homes soon. Not sure yet how to proceed, but needless to say it will be fun!

Cheers,

Fred McKie

[STL1944]

That is a good looking PSA 2.5! Congratulations!

[toppcat]

Fred, would love to hear the back story on these!

[whiteymet]

Here are the photos of the Dice Cards

[Eric72]

Tremendous looking cards. Thank you for sharing.

[mantlefan]

Wowie! Congrats Fred.

[Gorditadogg]

Mick was a sucker for the change up, apparently.

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[Lucas00]

Insane find. Some may say once in a lifetime cards to own.

[raulus]

Have fun selling them!

I suspect that player collectors are going to be your best bet, or at least who will be willing to pay the most. Obviously the Mantle collectors out there have been willing to pay some crazy high prices to get the other examples of this card, which are lower graded due to having pin holes.

If I didn’t already have my Mays dice game, then I would be pretty motivated to pick yours up.

Good luck!

[JustinD]

Add me to the list on wanting to hear this story too!

Great find.

[brian1961]

Good afternoon, Fred. Do please take the time to favor us with an anecdote detailing the provenance of these "New to the hobby 1961 Topps Dice cards Mantle Highest Graded!" I realize doing so can be laborious and time-consuming, but as someone who got on these boards earlier this year and wrote out this kind of anecdote, you might find it invigorating, as I did. You may not get much feedback, and I did not either, but I think your story WILL garner a lot of attention. Occasionally, when you knock yourself out and elucidate an enchanting story, the resulting silence is deafening with whispers.......

Should you decide not to bother with us, do take the time to write it up for the auction house you decide to work with. Good stories sell cards....... Brian Powell

[brad31]

Wow these are beauties. Thanks for sharing.

[raulus]

Originally Posted by brian1961

Good afternoon, Fred. Do please take the time to favor us with an anecdote detailing the provenance of these "New to the hobby 1961 Topps Dice cards Mantle Highest Graded!" I realize doing so can be laborious and time-consuming, but as someone who got on these boards earlier this year and wrote out this kind of anecdote, you might find it invigorating, as I did. You may not get much feedback, and I did not either, but I think your story WILL garner a lot of attention. Occasionally, when you knock yourself out and elucidate an enchanting story, the resulting silence is deafening with whispers.......

Should you decide not to bother with us, do take the time to write it up for the auction house you decide to work with. Good stories sell cards....... Brian Powell

Seems like Fred is too busy marketing them to share the backstory here. Either that or he's decided that the mystery adds to the aura, kind of like how the Noodle Incident is never explained in Calvin & Hobbes, so our imaginations are left to run wild at the possibilities.