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

[MattyC]

I believe it was due to their rather ugly centering/eye appeal.

[pokerplyr80]

I'd have to agree with Matt on this one. I believe those Mantles have followed the current trend of collectors stepping up for nice examples of 52 Mantles and passing on drastically off center cards. For many, including myself, a 52 Mantle is a huge purchase and the center piece of a collection. Might as well get one that actually looks good for the grade.

[savedfrommyspokes]

Centering was my first thought as to why those cards did not sell at the trend prices....a decently centered PSA 3 (old flip, compares closer to a current 2 - 2.5 due to heavy crease) sold last evening on ebay for $23,500.

I think every collector has their peeves, based on the prices, centering is a greater concern than a heavy crease.

For lower grade cards , I do find centered cards with fairly intact corners but possessing light creasing/surface wear much more appealing than a card that is o/c, w/rounded corners, has staining and/or has heavy creasing.

[gregr2]

Picked up from a board member, thanks Chris!!
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[irv]

Originally Posted by MikeGarcia

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"Scooped up these two Mick/Berras also. Loved the focus and centering on each. Seems like this one is always blurry or OC or both."


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Love that card!

Great P/U's!

[EFrey76]

Picked this up off of ebay:



I paid $499, which is more than I have dropped on any one card before, but I have always wanted to collect Mantles and recently decided to start (great time for me to get in, huh? LOL)

Ideally, I was looking for a PSA 4 or better, but this one seemed pretty fairly priced considering it looks pretty nice to me for a 3 (looks better than a lot of 4's I've seen, which are currently selling for almost double what I got this for.

Did I do ok or did I way overpay?

[Stonepony]

There's no such thing as overpaying for a nice eye appeal Mantle in any grade. Nice card and congrats!

[pawpawdiv9]

Originally Posted by savedfrommyspokes

Centering was my first thought as to why those cards did not sell at the trend prices....a decently centered PSA 3 (old flip, compares closer to a current 2 - 2.5 due to heavy crease) sold last evening on ebay for $23,500.

I think every collector has their peeves, based on the prices, centering is a greater concern than a heavy crease.

For lower grade cards , I do find centered cards with fairly intact corners but possessing light creasing/surface wear much more appealing than a card that is o/c, w/rounded corners, has staining and/or has heavy creasing.

I missed seeing that one, maybe someone can find the link to it, as I cant find it.
BTW...did you guys see the listing on Ebay for 3 1952 Mantle rookies!!!!
for 120k
http://www.ebay.com/itm/3-1952-Topps...p2047675.l2557
PSA 5, PSA 7oc, and BVG 5.5
I only saw it, bc my g-parents live near by this town.

[savedfrommyspokes]

Originally Posted by pawpawdiv9

I missed seeing that one, maybe someone can find the link to it, as I cant find it.
BTW...did you guys see the listing on Ebay for 3 1952 Mantle rookies!!!!
for 120k
http://www.ebay.com/itm/3-1952-Topps...p2047675.l2557
PSA 5, PSA 7oc, and BVG 5.5
I only saw it, bc my g-parents live near by this town.

Below is the link for the 52 Topps 311 PSA 3 that sold (originally) for $23.5K on Aug 18 on ebay via BO....the day after it sold, the price that was in the system was $23.5k (I checked the price on the 19th the same way as I did today). Today, I checked the sell price again and it is now showing this card sold for $19230 via BO.....I would have to believe the $23.5k price is much closer to the correct price.

The only reason that I can think that caused the price to change from $23.5k to $19230 is that for some unknown reason the seller provided a $4k+ refund to the buyer at some point since Aug 19th. Possibly some sort of case opened through ebay and the seller offered a partial refund to resolve the concern and complete the transaction and this refund caused the change in price this card sold for? The card appears to be in a old holder. Possibly the card was regarded as a 2.5 and the seller agreed to reimburse the buyer if the grade was lower. The buyer did provide a glowing positive feedback on the transaction though.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1952-Topps-M...UAAOSw9VZXO8Rq

[AustinMike]

As always, some very nice Micks. Here are three cards I picked up in the last week or two. The '57 isn't centered all that nicely, but the price was right. They also are more in focus in hand than these scanned images show.

[Stonepony]

Surely someone won one of the gorgeous Micks PWCC had up this week? Let's see em