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help with 1956 topps mickey mantle

dudeerssmithersdudeerssmithers Posts: 1 ✭
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 I have actually two old tops that have similar issues one is the coveted 1956 topps


i know for a fact it came in the pack like that back in 1956 when gramps bought it, If you look close you can see the wrinkles where it had been glued to the card stock
however topps was rather notorious back in that period for craptastic glue -

question is what does that do to the value as it is not technically an error and i mean if it actually did something like double the value you would see fools peeling cards or counterfeiting, on the other hand it is a factory defect and thus rarer than your average card

i am just trying to figure out whether it is worth the rather considerable expense of slabbing it

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  • flcardtraderflcardtrader Posts: 797 ✭✭✭

    Nice Mickey!

    Could be that Gramps purchased it in a pack and like a lot of people, glued them into an album so he could wax poetically while flipping pages of his favorite team.

    If you are subbing to PSA, I suspect you are doing so to validate the card is authentic as I don't see them giving this card an actual grade.

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  • swish54swish54 Posts: 704 ✭✭✭✭

    Looks trimmed to me.

  • JoeBanzaiJoeBanzai Posts: 11,881 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @swish54 said:
    Looks trimmed to me.

    Was just going to write that. Definitely trimmed.

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  • handymanhandyman Posts: 5,364 ✭✭✭✭✭

    reprint IMO

  • balco758balco758 Posts: 1,407 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I can't speak to the authenticity of the card, but for a first post, great knowledge of veteran collector jargon - trimmed, wrinkles, card stock, factory defect and slabbing.

    I suspect you may know the answer to your own question.

    Cheers.

  • secretstashsecretstash Posts: 1,396 ✭✭✭✭

    Fake and altered...

  • fattymacsfattymacs Posts: 2,579 ✭✭✭

    Looks like it a picture clipped from a book or magazine glued to card stock, could be wrong but it does not look like the 56 topps cards Ive handled.

  • KendallCatKendallCat Posts: 3,000 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I would probably hold off on grading it - PSA usually does not handle cards with t/b centering of 5/5. 😉

  • MantleMarisFordBerraMantleMarisFordBerra Posts: 1,704 ✭✭✭

    No.

  • daltexdaltex Posts: 3,486 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @dudeerssmithers said:

    i know for a fact it came in the pack like that back in 1956 when gramps bought it, If you look close you can see the wrinkles where it had been glued to the card stock
    however topps was rather notorious back in that period for craptastic glue -

    I'm so confused. Where in the process did Topps use glue?

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