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1952 Topps Mantle....What a Shame

AllenAllen Posts: 7,165 ✭✭✭
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Such a nice card ruined by trimming. I was hoping to get it cheap, but so much for that.

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  • Bosox1976Bosox1976 Posts: 8,568 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Spectacular card. Probably trimmed so some nitwit could get $400 for it instead of $300 in the 80's. Trimming that card is sacreligous.
    Mike
    Bosox1976
  • jimq112jimq112 Posts: 3,511 ✭✭✭
    for a collector it's still cheap. I'd much rather have 99% of that original card than 100% of a lot of "better" ones.

    Thanks for the link. I set my snipe and I'm sure I'll be outbid but it's way over my head to even think about bidding on it.
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  • MantleMarisFordBerraMantleMarisFordBerra Posts: 1,711 ✭✭✭
    Hey guys, my work blocks ebay - can any one please tell me what the card went for? Thanks!
  • AllenAllen Posts: 7,165 ✭✭✭
    Has one day left and it near $3,800
  • kingraider75kingraider75 Posts: 1,500 ✭✭
    If a card is trimmed, then the label should say so. I saw an authentic Bronko Nagurski at the National at last year, however it didn't say trimmed anywhere on it. I am glad I purchased a low grade PSA 3 instead of a sharp looking trimmed card.

    Too bad on the Mantle, that card looks very nice, I bet prior to trimming, it would have been at least a 5.
    Running an Ebay store sure takes a lot more time than a person would think!
  • shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,631 ✭✭✭✭
    That seems like a strong price for a trimmed card, no? I agree that it is a real shame. In this instance, the trimmer trimmed away probably thousands of dollars.
    "My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."
  • bifff257bifff257 Posts: 751 ✭✭


    My guess is it will end up on Ebay in the near furture not in a sgc holder. It may end up in a 2nd tier grading companies holder... The seller will Guarantee it is authentic from his grandfathers collection and someone will bid it up to $15000++++ thinking they have hit the jackpot....image
  • MantleMarisFordBerraMantleMarisFordBerra Posts: 1,711 ✭✭✭
    Thanks for the update Allen, yeah that does seem like a good bit of coin for a trimmed card, but this is one of the legendary cards of all time, and ya gotta admit the eye appeal is there. Hope it stays in the "A" holder, and not what bifff257 said.
  • jimq112jimq112 Posts: 3,511 ✭✭✭
    If I get it then it stays in the holder it's in, next to my trimmed 35 chicle clarke hinkle ($40) and my trimmed clemente rookie($200). Just missed a beautiful trimmed 34 gehrig, also sga authentic($611 or 661).

    Someday if I ever need money bad, I can hire an old guy in the park for $25 to walk around with me at the national, carrying those cards (cracked out of course) wrapped in a 1950s newspaper and wait for the first dealer to take advantage of us. [/sarcasm of course]

    That reminds me with the national coming up, recently (I think it was in houston) somebody was selling 1950 something packs with stars showing. BE CAREFUL! They were rewaps with a photo of the back of the card, and some worthless stuff inside. The crook was caught but anywhere there are easy dollars to be made there will be crooks looking to make it.
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