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Willie and the Mick.

fiveninerfiveniner Posts: 4,111 ✭✭✭
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Willie and the Mick have finally found thier final resting place.After so many years of living in the raw I finally decided to send them out for grading.I am glad I finally had the courage to let them leave home.
Tony(AN ANGEL WATCHES OVER ME)

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  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 31,766 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Great looking cards! Those type of cards should be slabbed in my opinion anyways, at least for the protection and authenticity.
  • clydecoolidgeclydecoolidge Posts: 863 ✭
    Nice cards!!! Are those print lines on the Mantle? Are those the only thing keeping it from around a PSA 5 (just a quick opinon on the 5). I have around 110 of the '51 Bowmans, unfortunately no stars. Maybe someday I'll try and put the whole set together, but too many other projects right now. I'll tell you what though, you're two cards there would be a great addition to any '51 set!!!!
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  • BigDaddyBowmanBigDaddyBowman Posts: 1,896 ✭✭✭
    those are beauties....sometimes a grade is just a number!
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  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    Nice cards.

    Steve
    Good for you.
  • Post25Post25 Posts: 206
    Great looking cards! Both are 2 of my favorites.

    Jeff
  • AllenAllen Posts: 7,165 ✭✭✭
    Great cards. Why does the 51 Mantle often have those vertical lines? Seems like a lot of times they run through his face. I have seen many with that same problem.
  • plifterplifter Posts: 361
    A 1951 Mays is a card on my want list.
  • fattymacsfattymacs Posts: 2,581 ✭✭✭
    Very cool cards, the grades wouldn't bother me one bit.
  • bluemarlinbluemarlin Posts: 627 ✭✭✭
    That would make a great start to the 1951 Bowman set.

    Jake
  • originalisbestoriginalisbest Posts: 5,971 ✭✭✭✭
    Very nice, I have a twin to that Mick -- now I just need Mr. Mays. Great cards!
  • RipublicaninMassRipublicaninMass Posts: 10,051 ✭✭✭
    beautiful! Those present so well in a slab! What is in the background of the Mays, a curtain?
  • Downtown1974Downtown1974 Posts: 7,001 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Those cards are beauties!!! image
  • originalisbestoriginalisbest Posts: 5,971 ✭✭✭✭
    It's like a burlap curtain/makeshift backstop I believe, RIM. That's what I've always loved about the early painted Bowmans -- tiny little artistic detail touches -- the rope through the grommet, the green barn in the background -- beautiful. The Mick, with his spindly trees and lone telephone pole. They just make the cards, to my eye.

    Thanks for sharing your treasures, fiveniner!
  • originalisbestoriginalisbest Posts: 5,971 ✭✭✭✭
    'nother nice trivia note, you can tell from the very slight edge of the number on Mick's back, he's wearing the #6 originally assigned to him to continue the 3-4-5 legacy of Ruth, Gehrig and DiMaggio. Later on after being sent back to the minors, he'd return and find himself wearing #7. image
  • 70chip70chip Posts: 797
    Damn, they are some beautiful cards, VERY SHARP!!!!! Thanks for sharing the scans!!!
    Collecting Interests:
    Ripken, Brooks & Frank Robinson, Old Orioles, Sweet Spot Autos, older Redskins - Riggins, Sonny, Baugh etc and anything that catches my eye. image

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  • fiveninerfiveniner Posts: 4,111 ✭✭✭
    Thank you all for the nice comments.I have been able to put together the entire set in raw form.The set is one of my favorites for sure.
    Tony(AN ANGEL WATCHES OVER ME)
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