An authentic Mantle Rookie on ebay
JJman
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Hi folks - About a month ago I was daring (foolish) enough to purchase a 52 Topps Mantle that was on ebay. After it didn't make reserve, I had bought it privately from the seller. This card was discussed in detail on this message board because it was shown in a top loader beneath a detached PSA sticker showing a grade of 3. The seller claimed that he had unslabbed the card for display purposes. When speaking with the seller, I became convinced that he and the card were for real, and I pulled the trigger on the deal. Well, guess what? After receiving the card, I sent it to PSA and it came back as an authentic grade 3! Boy, am I relieved!! So, it just goes to show that sometimes you have to have some faith in humanity - what do you guys think about that? 
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<< <i>Hi folks - About a month ago I was daring (foolish) enough to purchase a 52 Topps Mantle that was on ebay. After it didn't make reserve, I had bought it privately from the seller. This card was discussed in detail on this message board because it was shown in a top loader beneath a detached PSA sticker showing a grade of 3. The seller claimed that he had unslabbed the card for display purposes. When speaking with the seller, I became convinced that he and the card were for real, and I pulled the trigger on the deal. Well, guess what? After receiving the card, I sent it to PSA and it came back as an authentic grade 3! Boy, am I relieved!! So, it just goes to show that sometimes you have to have some faith in humanity - what do you guys think about that?
That it is only your 3rd post!
congrats though nice p/u
<< <i>I still don't have faith in buying unslabbed, expensive cards; especially from people who claim to have pulled them out of their slab for display purposes. >>
Heh©TM
Great story! Would love to see a scan of the card in a new psa holder...what a great X-mas present.
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Mike
Not sure what I think about that. From reading your prior two posts, both on Mantle threads, and one about this Mantle in particular, all of the posts would have scared the hell out of anyone reading them. On the second post, A761506, who sells a guide on how to spot fakes offered you advice in a PM for free. Did you take it? Hopefully A761506 will post to confirm because if that were me I would jump all over any info I could get when looking to make that kind of purchase.
So in the end I am to believe you came here to consult the experts of this board, read what they had to say, and then still went off EBay to purchase a questionable card. You must have stones the size of boulders or you were looking how to better guise your auction in the future. My apologies in advance if all is indeed legitimate, but I don't buy it.
sorry to be cynical at the holidays
Chris
you got lucky
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A poor mountaineer, barely kept his family fed,
Then one day he was shootin at some food,
And up through the ground came a bubblin' crude.
Oil that is, black gold, Texas tea.
Well the first thing you know ol' Jed's a millionaire,
Kinfolk said Jed move away from there
Said Californy is the place you ought to be
So they loaded up the truck and moved to Beverly.
Hills, that is.
Swimmin pools, movie stars.
...another guy who got lucky.