PSA 9 52 Topps Mantle sells for $5.2M

Huysmans · #1 01-19-2021, 11:18 AM

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Originally Posted by 68Hawk

Uhm, yes, it really does help to formulate comment on children if you actually have them and have experience more significant than seeing them wander around a shopping mall.

They are definitely not all wonderful and great, however in particular the observation that they are disconnected or unknowing of recent history and the past is not particularly accurate in my experience.
My kids are not unicorns in their knowledge and tastes in music, in fact I would make the crazy generalization that no generation has ever had more eclectic and more rounded taste and knowledge of music genres.
That is largely based on hearing their jams coming from their rooms, ear pods, and pounding car chasis over the last 5-10 years.

I would also offer the following. While many kids today don't verbalize or make great conversationalists, that doesn't mean they aren't observing and contextualizing and sharing those thoughts amongst eachother.

Don't mistake a lack of interest in talking with their folks or to other random adults with lack of awareness.

Yeah, formulating an opinion is great, but hearing the same old song and dance about how everyone finds their own children to be something so utterly special and worth mentioning to others ad nauseam is tiresome.

They're your kids, so surprise surprise, OF COURSE they're special little angels that are misunderstood and able to do anything and everything.

I don't share that bias. I actually judge others on what they say and do, something most parents cannot objectively do about their own children.

Sorry for being honest, but we obviously won't agree.

68Hawk · #2 01-19-2021, 11:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Huysmans

Yeah, formulating an opinion is great, but hearing the same old song and dance about how everyone finds their own children to be something so utterly special and worth mentioning to others ad nauseam is tiresome.

They're your kids, so surprise surprise, OF COURSE they're special little angels that are misunderstood and able to do anything and everything.

I don't share that bias. I actually judge others on what they say and do, something most parents cannot objectively do about their own children.

Sorry for being honest, but we obviously won't agree.

I wonder if your parents ever found you special and worth mentioning grouchy pants?

Ad nauseam??? Not sure we hear too much about eachothers children on this site, I was using mine not to gloat but to give reference to ones I know, see, hear, watch in concert with others, and have done so for hundreds of thousands of hours up close over 18 years.

I know, terrible lack of perspective from your point of view.
Strange how parents with such experience must be terrible 'experts' at such opinions whereas gaining similar experience in other endeavors rates as expertise.

LOL, says this 52 year old man.

Huysmans · #3 01-19-2021, 12:10 PM

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Originally Posted by 68Hawk

I wonder if your parents ever found you special and worth mentioning grouchy pants?

Ad nauseam??? Not sure we hear too much about eachothers children on this site, I was using mine not to gloat but to give reference to ones I know, see, hear, watch in concert with others, and have done so for hundreds of thousands of hours up close over 18 years.

I know, terrible lack of perspective from your point of view.
Strange how parents with such experience must be terrible 'experts' at such opinions whereas gaining similar experience in other endeavors rates as expertise.

LOL, says this 52 year old man.

Uhhh, yeah, people who are in a cult also have all the first-hand expertise in the world, but NO ONE would ever expect a fair and honest judgement of said cult from them

Thinking your objective about your own children instead of admitting and accepting your utter bias... now THAT is LOL!

Republicaninmass · #4 01-19-2021, 12:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Huysmans

Thinking your objective about your own children instead of admitting and accepting your utter bias... now THAT is LOL!

Just a quick note: LOL does not mean Lots Of Love, it means Laugh Out Loud.

cardsagain74 · #5 01-19-2021, 02:27 PM

In other news, there is now just one '52 T Mantle graded above a 1 listed on ebay for less than 200,000 now. A PSA 3 for 85 k.

A brand new level of disappearing supply for it

68Hawk · #6 01-19-2021, 03:53 PM

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In other news, there is now just one '52 T Mantle graded above a 1 listed on ebay for less than 200,000 now. A PSA 3 for 85 k.

A brand new level of disappearing supply for it

That's wild.

Is your impression those listings are just fanciful ebay sellers hoping to strike it lucky with an impatient less than well informed buyer, or are Auction results heading that way?
Any idea what recent sales of graded 2-4 have been achieving at trusted auction sites?

cardsagain74 · #7 01-19-2021, 04:23 PM

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Originally Posted by 68Hawk

That's wild.

Is your impression those listings are just fanciful ebay sellers hoping to strike it lucky with an impatient less than well informed buyer, or are Auction results heading that way?
Any idea what recent sales of graded 2-4 have been achieving at trusted auction sites?

In the last week, a PSA 4 and a PSA 6 OC sold for around 50 k, a centered PSA 2 for 40 k, and the redheaded stepchild of the listings (an SGC 3.5 that was a good bit OC L/R) for 35 k.

Looks like its market is in that temporary pause mode now, where the new listings are taking stabs at just how much they can get (in a spot with little to no competing supply)

At this point, it's anyone's guess if people actually will pay 85 k for a PSA 3, or offer 45 k for the PSA 1. May not take too long to find out.

Now a second one popped up, at the top of possible asking prices again. A PSA 3.5 that's not even centered that great. 100 k OBO

68Hawk · #8 01-19-2021, 03:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Huysmans

Uhhh, yeah, people who are in a cult also have all the first-hand expertise in the world, but NO ONE would ever expect a fair and honest judgement of said cult from them

Thinking your objective about your own children instead of admitting and accepting your utter bias... now THAT is LOL!

You're a super weird dude.

packs · #9 01-19-2021, 11:37 AM

It's also kind of strange that the measure of a well rounded person is interest in music and television shows from the 80s.

I mean, come on. Have you forgotten the best years of your life already? I highly doubt there are many boomers on the board who were sitting down with grand pappy to listen to some Cole Porter 78s on the old Vitrola. Or went with memaw to check out some silent films while everyone else was seeing Marlo Brando and John Wayne movies.

Wake up, guys. You're old and uncool. It happens. But there's no reason to disparage people who are young and cool just because you aren't. That's where you can break the cycle.

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