Shelly (and all)
I was talking to Chris Williams today, and the thing about the Mantle contracts is that the price to get a baseball signed was only a few dollars more then a ball (I believe one contract it was $5 more for a ball then a flat 11x14 or smaller)
With this in mind, the majority of items signed by mantle were NOT photos. Everyone wanted a signed Mantle BALL, and that's what mostly he signed. In fact, I believe less then 10 different images were ever signed by Mantle for Score Board, and we only used Photo File to produce them, no one else.
Only a very small percentage of the autographs were ever even signed on photos under the Mantle contract. I have seen at least 20 different images that were never signed by Mantle under his score board agreement,not even one photo, which the seller is purporting to be from the Score Board Mantle contract.
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