Just Another 1952 Mantle PSA 9

[Delray Vintage]

6 mill?

[ALR-bishop]

Anyone buy a 52 Mantle for $ 1 back in the day ?

[iowadoc77]

Just need to get that time machine perfected! No worries. Shouldn’t be that difficult.

[Scott L.]

Already taking offers. You have to come heavy at $3.7 minimum though.

[ls7plus]

I was interested in seeing how this card in "9" had appreciated in the last few years, so dug out some of my old Beckett Graded magazines, which gave actual auction prices for the examples in the much higher grades. Two "9's" sold in 2007; one for $225,000 and the other for $280,000. Average, obviously, = about $250K. That's a rate of appreciation (just doing the math in my head) of about 25% compounded annually. The cream rises to the top!

Highest regards,

Larry

[ls7plus]

Originally Posted by ls7plus

I was interested in seeing how this card in "9" had appreciated in the last few years, so dug out some of my old Beckett Graded magazines, which gave actual auction prices for the examples in the much higher grades. Two "9's" sold in 2007; one for $225,000 and the other for $280,000. Average, obviously, = about $250K. That's a rate of appreciation (just doing the math in my head) of about 25% compounded annually. The cream rises to the top!

Highest regards,

Larry

Self-correction: the auction sales referred to above occurred in 2006, rather than 2007 (they were listed in a February 2007 issue of Beckett's Graded Card Investor). The compounded rate of appreciation is approximately 20.6% per annum.

Best to all,

Larry

[darwinbulldog]

Originally Posted by Delray Vintage

6 mill?

1980 Topps Rickey Henderson
PSA 9: $350
PSA 10: $25,000

1952 Topps Mickey Mantle
PSA 9: $2,880,000
PSA 10: $205,714,286

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by darwinbulldog

1980 Topps Rickey Henderson
PSA 9: $350
PSA 10: $25,000

1952 Topps Mickey Mantle
PSA 9: $2,880,000
PSA 10: $205,714,286

There are a million Henderson 9s, not really a good analogy.

[darwinbulldog]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

There are a million Henderson 9s, not really a good analogy.

Are you insinuating that a PSA 10 Mantle would bring less than $205,714,286?

[BobC]

Aren't there 3 PSA graded 10 Mantle's from the '52 Topps set out there? Not sure when the last one changed hands but, even if it was before '52 Mantles reached 7 figure status, those three should all be counted as million dollar cards as well.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by darwinbulldog

Are you insinuating that a PSA 10 Mantle would bring less than $205,714,286?

Marginally less.

[samosa4u]

This PSA 9 is the most beautiful example I have ever seen. Congrats to the winner, and I'm pretty sure he'll have no trouble flipping it down the line (if he chooses to).

Now some of you are wondering what stopped it from getting a grade of 10 GEM MINT. Did anyone spot the red print line on the reverse side? It can be seen where it says "Switch-hitting Mickey is heralded ..." Maybe that prevented it from getting a 10? Any thoughts?

Ranjodh

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by samosa4u

This PSA 9 is the most beautiful example I have ever seen. Congrats to the winner, and I'm pretty sure he'll have no trouble flipping it down the line (if he chooses to).

Now some of you are wondering what stopped it from getting a grade of 10 GEM MINT. Did anyone spot the red print line on the reverse side? It can be seen where it says "Switch-hitting Mickey is heralded ..." Maybe that prevented it from getting a 10? Any thoughts?

Ranjodh

If this was graded after the 3 10s I think it may just be a decision by PSA not to give any more 10s. I doubt it's anything specific on the card itself.

[CMIZ5290]

Originally Posted by samosa4u

This PSA 9 is the most beautiful example I have ever seen. Congrats to the winner, and I'm pretty sure he'll have no trouble flipping it down the line (if he chooses to).

Now some of you are wondering what stopped it from getting a grade of 10 GEM MINT. Did anyone spot the red print line on the reverse side? It can be seen where it says "Switch-hitting Mickey is heralded ..." Maybe that prevented it from getting a 10? Any thoughts?

Ranjodh

So what do you mean, flipping it down the line?

[MVSNYC]

Originally Posted by Delray Vintage

6 mill?

I think you’re light on that estimate.

[insidethewrapper]

It's crazy. Doesn't the 1952 Topps Mantle have variations on the ball stitching on the back and also front box differences ? Wait till someone says one variation is worth more than the other. These cards will need to be regarded indicating which variation it is ! These whales will need all the variations !

[MVSNYC]

They were double printed, 2 per page, each variation having the same total population...I believe.

[Delray Vintage]

Originally Posted by MVSNYC

I think you’re light on that estimate.

Yes I guess there will be a hedge fund guy willing to pay almost anything to get one of the three 10’s. Maybe $10-12 million?

[insidethewrapper]

How would you like to be "the grader" at PSA and you have to make a decision if the Mantle card is a "8" or "9" or "9" or "10" ? Millions of $$$$ difference. Wonder if you knew the submitter ? Labeled From the " so and so " collection .

[irv]

Originally Posted by insidethewrapper

How would you like to be "the grader" at PSA and you have to make a decision if the Mantle card is a "8" or "9" or "9" or "10" ? Millions of $$$$ difference. Wonder if you knew the submitter ? Labeled From the " so and so " collection .

As far as I know, cards in the 9-10 range (Maybe only 10's?) get multiple reviews before they are slabbed.

Not sure how true that is but I'd like to believe it's somewhat true, especially when there is significant value involved.

[ruth-gehrig]

To anyone who has seen this card in person what prevented it from a 10?

[Bradyhill]

I have seen it in person and in my opinion it is probably the 2nd best 52 Mantle. The corners are all there and the centering is stronger than 2 of the 3 10’s. The only thing that is holding it back from a 10 IMO is the pack fresh aspect. To be fair, I haven’t seen the 10’s except for scans, but they all appear to be from the find and brighter than this example.

This card rocks and very deserving of the grade. If 9.5 were possible, it would be the poster child.

Brady