Rosen 1952 Topps Find

[GasHouseGang]

Does anyone have scans of the original ads that ran in SCD after Al Rosen made that amazing 1952 Topps high number find? I remember the ad was at least a whole page, and maybe several pages. I would love to drool over what I should have been buying when they were available.

[ALR-bishop]

David---not what you seek but something

https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0ge...cXoJan6W6OlMQ-

[GasHouseGang]

Thanks Al, I read that too. So based on the fact that he bought the cards in the spring of 1986, the ads should have appeared in the summer and fall of 1986 I guess. And I found this on the web which came from Al's book:

I placed an advertisement in Sports Collectors Digest trying to sell the Mantles for $3,500 each, perfectly centered gem mint cards, and I ran photos with the advertisement. I didn't sell any Mantles at that price. I was crushed. So I started blowing them out, and most of them I sold to dealers for $2,000 each.
The last ten I sold to John Broggi of JKJ Sports Collectibles. He paid $12,500 for the ten of them.

That was 1986, right before the major baseball card boom.

He says, six months later, those same Mantles he sold were selling for up to $10,000 each and he wished he could go back in time.

Then a few years later, one of the Mantles he sold to Jim Copeland for $2,000 sold for $41,000 at auction.

He didn't really have much choice because he really needed to make his money back and they didn't sell initially like he thought they would.

[Volod]

Dang, the only issue of SCD I have from '86 is January, and no ad in that, of course. The one reason I kept that issue was for the great article about the '52 Bowman Football cards. Rosen had an ad in the June, 1986 issue of Baseball Cards Magazine, but it said nothing about 1952 Topps. Sorry I tossed out all of those old SCD's.

[GasHouseGang]

Thanks for looking Steve. I thought for sure some hoarder...er...I mean "Collector" would have a copy of SCD with the ad for the 1952 Topps find.

[jchcollins]

Agree this would be cool to see if he had pictures of the individual Mantles in SCD at some point. One of those wound up as the PSA 10 Marshall Fogel Mantle, which was brought out of it's safety deposit box and displayed for the first time in decades last year in Arizona, if I'm right. I'm not sure if the Ken Kendrick "Diamondbacks Collection" PSA 10 Mantle was from the Rosen find or not, but it's generally conceded that Fogel's is the better of the two.

Man, $2K? I was 9 years old in 1986 and in the middle of the transition from collecting Garbage Pail Kids to baseball cards. It's a moot point; my parents wouldn't have spent $200 on that card let alone two thousand, but...hindsight is a MF sometimes isn't it?