So I started a Mickey Mantle "project"......

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Originally Posted by DJCollector1

Any help on value is appreciated.

One local card dealer says possibly $1,200-$1,500.

Is such a unique piece, surely someone would want to add it into their display or collection.

Maybe they would want it as-is? I'm going to guess that with a display piece like this, it's probably often something that is more dear to the person who compiled it than it is to a potential buyer.

If I had to guess, you might get more by breaking them up, than by keeping them together. But that's just my guess. I suppose it's possible that someone might want a piece like this as a present for some big Mantle fan who otherwise doesn't really have much of a Mantle collection. And maybe they would be willing to pay a bit more for the polished presentation.

But for the average collector, I'm guessing that they probably won't pay extra for this, even as nice as it is, simply because they're more interested in the cards as individual items rather than in the presentation piece as a whole. And often they might only be interested in some of the cards, rather than all of them, which might further hurt the value.

Certainly for anyone who wants the cards, the only way to really value this is going to be a really close look at the condition of the cards, which is hard to gauge since the cards are all raw, and we don't have the cards in person.

Since it looks like you mostly bought these in 2019 and early 2020, assuming you didn't pay above market prices (such as by just using BIN on eBay, which is often high retail or extremely high retail), then the odds are good that the values have gone up, probably double or maybe triple what you originally paid. But the only way to really know for sure is to go piece by piece and take a really close look at condition and then attempt to assign values to each piece.

Once you get done adding them up, it's just a question of whether your buyer just wants the pieces individually, in which case you probably don't get a premium, or whether the buyer really loves the delightful presentation, and will pay a little extra to get it.