The official Mickey Mantle Pickup Thread. All Mick, all the time!

[raulus]

More of a reverse pickup.

Just sold this 1964 Meadowgold Dairy Mantle to a lucky soul on eBay. Hope the buyer enjoys it!

[AustinMike]

Originally Posted by raulus

More of a reverse pickup.

Just sold this 1964 Meadowgold Dairy Mantle to a lucky soul on eBay. Hope the buyer enjoys it!

That's nice looking. Wish I had seen it.

[Tomi]

Originally Posted by raulus

More of a reverse pickup.

Just sold this 1964 Meadowgold Dairy Mantle to a lucky soul on eBay. Hope the buyer enjoys it!

Congrats on the sale. I have that one in a PSA 8. Wondering what it would go for as I see the lower grade ones are bringing a nice chunk of change. Cheers.

[raulus]

Originally Posted by Tomi

Congrats on the sale. I have that one in a PSA 8. Wondering what it would go for as I see the lower grade ones are bringing a nice chunk of change. Cheers.

With oddball pieces like this, it’s just a question of who’s in the market, and how much they’re willing to pay. Demand for oddball pieces tends to be thin, but all it takes is a few motivated bidders at auction for the price to go to the moon. With your PSA 8, since it’s the highest graded, and the next one is not even close, there’s the potential for a few guys to go nuts on a set registry play.

At the same time, it’s so difficult to find these in any grade that you often get some compression in the market, with even low grades pieces selling for museum prices. Unlike with mainline pieces, where a pop 1 PSA 8, none higher might sell for 10x or 100x of a PSA 2, with the oddball stuff, it could go for 2x or it could go for 100x. Just need the right buyers to be motivated enough to pay that much for it.

But I wouldn’t be surprised if you could easily get $10-20k on a bad day, and probably approach 6 figures on a really good day.

[Tomi]

I always thought that in order for this item to receive a numerical grade that it has to have the white borders on all sides. I've seen a few with no borders at all receive numerical grades. Just no consistency.

[bbcard1]

Really probably on 45% or so Mantle. Jim Perry/Mickey Mantle 1964 wrongback.