Heritage Rosen Mantle - Greatest Card Ever Auctioned?

[Peter_Spaeth]

Heritage did well to call it the finest #311 ever, and to put it on the flip, because even if it isn't, the description takes on a life of its own and the card becomes unique.

As one of my favorite quotes (Wallace Stevens) goes, what we said of it became a part of what it is..

[G1911]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Heritage did well to call it the finest #311 ever, and to put it on the flip, because even if it isn't, the description takes on a life of its own and the card becomes unique.

As one of my favorite quotes (Wallace Stevens) goes, what we said of it became a part of what it is..

I have read much of Stevens work but do not remember that line, that's a good one. If you BS hard and long enough, the BS often becomes accepted as valid.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by G1911

I have read much of Stevens work but do not remember that line, that's a good one. If you BS hard and long enough, the BS often becomes accepted as valid.

Postcard From the Volcano, as I recall.

[Leon]

The answer to the very first question (Title of thread) is yes, so far.
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[Shoeless Moe]

Originally Posted by Leon

The answer to the very first question (Title of thread) is yes, so far.
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Yes, but it's subjective......and it's "greatest card ever auctioned", not "top selling card of all time", that would have been the better title.

Greatest Card Ever Auctioned is and was the Baltimore Ruth.

I'll wager a $1000 bucks that would beat this.

.....and it's in lesser condition. The KO.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Shoeless Moe

Yes, but it's subjective......and it's "greatest card ever auctioned", not "top selling card of all time", that would have been the better title.

Greatest Card Ever Auctioned is and was the Baltimore Ruth.

I'll wager a $1000 bucks that would beat this.

.....and it's in lesser condition. The KO.

I won't wager but yes, my answer is value based. And the only BN Ruth I could ever afford would be, possibly an NFT if one came out.
Value aside, of course I like the Ruth over the Mantle...I am a pre war guy
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[Johnny630]

Whoever bought this at a little over $12,000,000 made an amazing buy as a collectible or as an investment, with this provenance(Rosen Letter/SGC Flip Slab 1985 Rosen Find Finest Example SGC Slab 9.5) it was a no-brainer! Congrats.

This specific card regardless of its holder or what you think of the card is only going up in the future. I hope the new owner cherishes the card :-)

All I can say is Bravo!

[G1911]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Postcard From the Volcano, as I recall.

Thank you. I need to pull him off my bookshelf again, I always find him insightful when I do. Looked this one up again. Not to hijack too far into poetry, but what a lovely piece:


Children picking up our bones
Will never know that these were once
As quick as foxes on the hill;

And that in autumn, when the grapes
Made sharp air sharper by their smell
These had a being, breathing frost;

And least will guess that with our bones
We left much more, left what still is
The look of things, left what we felt

At what we saw. The spring clouds blow
Above the shuttered mansion-house,
Beyond our gate and the windy sky

Cries out a literate despair.
We knew for long the mansion's look
And what we said of it became

A part of what it is ... Children,
Still weaving budded aureoles,
Will speak our speech and never know,

Will say of the mansion that it seems
As if he that lived there left behind
A spirit storming in blank walls,

A dirty house in a gutted world,
A tatter of shadows peaked to white,
Smeared with the gold of the opulent sun.

[Peter_Spaeth]

I always loved Farewell to Florida and the image of the snake leaving its skin upon the floor. Whether it's just about the end of a deep but doomed relationship ("her home, not mine," a million thoughts compressed into one phrase), or more abstract as some critics say, doesn't really matter.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by G1911

I have read much of Stevens work but do not remember that line, that's a good one. If you BS hard and long enough, the BS often becomes accepted as valid.

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." Goebbels.

As proven by DJT, but let's not get too political.

[G1911]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." Goebbels.

As proven by DJT, but let's not get too political.

Little late, after Goebbels and the Don separated by only 3 words

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Heritage did well to call it the finest #311 ever, and to put it on the flip, because even if it isn't, the description takes on a life of its own and the card becomes unique.

As one of my favorite quotes (Wallace Stevens) goes, what we said of it became a part of what it is..

sort of a corollary to Schroedinger's cat. Instead of it isn't anything until it's observed, it isn't anything until it's hyped?