Heritage Auction...Please Share your Winnings from Saturday (2/25) and/or Sunday (2/26) Nights
mintonlypls
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The sports card market continues to be strong with some incredible prices realized in both cards and unopened material. One catching my eye is a 1968 Mickey Mantle PSA-10 for $510,000! Another card, which seems undervalued (in all grades) and the set as well, is a 1953 Bowman Color Mickey Mantle PSA-8.5. As I post this thread...this undervalued Mickey Mantle stands at ~$60,000. Also...a 1968 Hank Aaron PSA-10 is at $174,000! And a 1-cent 1955 Topps Baseball Wax Pack PSA-7 is currently at $18,000!
Here is my lone win...the only lot on which I placed a bid. There are rough cuts along both edges...somewhat common for the issue and giving the appearance of a problem with the lower left corner...but zooming in it shows that it is due to the rough cut. I had owned a 1957 Mantle PSA-8.5...but sold it due to a grainy appearance to the image. This PSA-8 example has a much better image than that PSA-8.5 example (see below which I had owned).
Both 1957 Mantle images are from a Heritage Auction for comparison purposes. Here is also the same PSA-8 from PWCC receiving a PWCC-A designation. I know that collectors/investors do not like PWCCC...but I find that PWCC has it right most of the time when it tags a card with a designation meaning it is exceptional for the assigned grade. I do not take its designation for granted, of course...but I "pause" when I see such a designation to take a closer look.
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Beautiful card. Congratulations.
I only bid on a few sets, and went fairly hard on the nice ‘67 set with the PSA 8.5 Mantle, but not hard enough. Hope others did as well as you did.
Bosox1976
That auction got high very quickly. I was watching several items but just wasn't in love enough to be aggressive enough.
Nice upgrade on Mantle. The 8 looks better than the 8.5.
I had my eye on a few items but didn't pull the trigger. I have my eye on a few items set for inclusion in the May auction.
A couple big sales
For me the best value of the 4 is the 51 B....
I think it is the Clemente. There are probably one of his autos in existence for every 10,000 of Mantle’s.
All of these are so far out of my league that I have to settle for NFTs (screen shots from my tablet) of them. Congrats to whomever win these amazing cards.
Clemente auto has to be a unicorn. OTOH the 68 Mantle is not a pop 1 or close to it, and congrats to the seller getting $500k+ on the sale 😳
To me it shows how well Mantle's popularity has held up, he continues to be the King. His PSA 10 went for 3X Aaron's.
Successful card BST transactions with cbcnow, brogurt, gstarling, Bravesfan 007, and rajah 424.
Last Aaron PSA 10 I see a sale for was for $8179 in 2018. Not a bad return on investment!
Congratulations on the purchase. I assume it is a candidate for a review and bump.
Personally, I'm an Aaron guy, and don't collect MMs. Better for me for him to stay cheaper!
OMG that is insane!
Successful card BST transactions with cbcnow, brogurt, gstarling, Bravesfan 007, and rajah 424.
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WOW! Looks like it might finally be time for me to put a number grade on these beauts and put them up for auction as a pair.