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

[rand1com]

Originally Posted by Beercan collector

Had this card for a while but never posted ,
Thanks to rand1com on ebay .

Yep. That was a nice looking '51 Mantle. I bought a boyhood collection from an 80 year old friend who had opened a lot of packs back in '51, 52, and 53. He had 2 rookie Mantles and 1 Mays. The Mantles graded 3 and 3.5. I think you got the 3.5 and I sold the 3 to another dealer. If I remember correctly(possibly not), I sold it on Ebay for $6K at the time in 2019. I think you did pretty good holding onto it since then. Congrats!

Just checked VCP. Actually sold for $6500!!!

[AustinMike]

Just picked up this Type 1 Mantle.

Mantle Photo Yankees Issue 8-X-10 Ver 2 resized.jpg

I overpaid for it because I noticed it was very slightly different from one I already had.

Mantle Photo Yankees Issue 8-X-10 Ver 1 resized.jpg

I've indicated the area where I first noticed the difference within the red lines. The difference is very small, the photo appears to be shifted slightly to the left. However, there is also a slight difference in the upper left corner. It appears to be shifted to the right a little bit. Therefore, I think the new photo is simply zoomed out very slightly from the first photo.

Mantle Photo Yankees Issue front 8-X-10 Ver 1 and Ver 2 resized.jpg

Of course a normal person wouldn't care about the minute difference. But, what can I say?

[ALR-bishop]

Saw this fantasy piece on Facebook.

[Lucas00]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

Saw this fantasy piece on Facebook.

https://medium.com/@JohnDempseyIV/th...d-7fbf4c7c2454

[ALR-bishop]

Lucas— pretty amazing if true and great hobby history. I can add it to the 61 Dice, 66 Punch Out and 68 Disc as Topps Mantles I will never get my hands on .

[Lucas00]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

Lucas— pretty amazing if true and great hobby history. I can add it to the 61 Dice, 66 Punch Out and 68 Disc as Topps Mantles I will never get my hands on .

I thought it was a fantasy piece at first as well. But then I started looking closely, the card is definitely genuine. And the skill needed to make a genuine quality card and replicate the cartoon style that perfect was impossible. Not to mention a story like this needs good provenance, and it has that as well.

Although I don't like how the owner says it would cost too much to grade. It would a drop in tbe bucket compared to what it would sell for. Then again getting an auction house to do it for them would also probably be free and a nice perk.

I was wondering what it might sell for at auction. And thought somewhere between a quarter and half a million.


Edit: did not realize there was no front pic (the front pic in the article wasn't the card in question, just a generic '60 topps front) so take back my definitely from above. Need a real picture of the front.

[AustinMike]

Picked this up recently.

Mantle 1960s Milk Meadow Sweet Cut Out resized.jpg

I'm assuming this is from a low-fat carton of Meadow Sweet milk. In Post 1853, I showed a regular carton of Meadow Sweet milk, and this Mick is the same as that, except for the color. Since the color of the Meadow Gold "cards" is based on the type of milk, green for low-fat and blue for regular, I'm assuming the same might be true for Meadow Sweet.