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All I Gots To Say This Morning Is... HE HAS ARRIVED.

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  • bobbyw8469bobbyw8469 Posts: 7,139 ✭✭✭
    You won that from Bill Goodwin last night?
  • mattyc_collectionmattyc_collection Posts: 2,130 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Most definitely.

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  • BPorter26BPorter26 Posts: 3,499 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Absolutely beautiful card it looks better the grade that was given. Congrats on the pickup!!
    "EVERYBODY LOVE EVERYBODY IT SAYS IT RIGHT THERE ON THE WALL" - JACKIE MOON
  • DanBessetteDanBessette Posts: 6,421 ✭✭✭
    That's a good looking 4.5
  • vladguerrerovladguerrero Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭
    haha congrats!
  • JoeBanzaiJoeBanzai Posts: 11,994 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    2013,14 and 15 Certificate Award Winner Harmon Killebrew Master Set and Master Topps Set
  • cardcountrycardcountry Posts: 571 ✭✭✭
    Congrats buddy. I'm really happy for you!

    Jeff
    Jeff Foy/Dave Foy
    Card Country
    Graded stars 1950's-1980
  • ClockworkAngelClockworkAngel Posts: 1,994 ✭✭✭
    Wow.....42K for a 4.5. I think everyone owning a 52T Mantle gave this auction a collective round of applause.

    Congratulations! I know many that wanted this card and it doesn't get any better centering. Great eye appeal! Just a beautiful card....
    The Clockwork Angel Collection...brought to you by Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and Chase
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  • DanBessetteDanBessette Posts: 6,421 ✭✭✭
    I'm sorry, how much??
  • mattyc_collectionmattyc_collection Posts: 2,130 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Todd,

    36.4k, don't give me a heart attack!

    Seriously guys, THANKS A TON. My collecting dream has always been to own a perfectly centered #311 and Ruth RC. I honestly feel like I can chill now, and get hammered for breakfast.

    I could not believe this card when I first laid eyes on it. Ironically I owe the same buddy who found me the Ruth for spotting this one.

    After scouring VCP, both TPG Registries, HA.com, even Google, I could only find one 6, one 7, one 8, one 8.5, then the 9s and 10s that had equal centering and thus eye appeal. It's just amazing how many of the extant 1952 Mantles have poor centering. And I just could never pony up for say an 8 that had bad centering. To me, what makes a 52 Mantle unique from its brethren is decent centering.

    I then asked myself, "What will any of those other centered specimens go for if they ever hit the market, especially after this 4.5 hammers?"

    The obvious answer to that question was, "More than I could afford."

    So that meant if I ever wanted to own a dream centered version of the icon, I had to win this freakish 4.5, or forever hold my peace.

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  • DanBessetteDanBessette Posts: 6,421 ✭✭✭
    Oh, only $36,400? Nevermind, that's pocket change.
  • ClockworkAngelClockworkAngel Posts: 1,994 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Todd,

    36.4k, don't give me a heart attack!

    Seriously guys, THANKS A TON. My collecting dream has always been to own a perfectly centered #311 and Ruth RC. I honestly feel like I can chill now, and get hammered for breakfast.

    I could not believe this card when I first laid eyes on it. Ironically I owe the same buddy who found me the Ruth for spotting this one.

    After scouring VCP, both TPG Registries, HA.com, even Google, I could only find one 6, one 7, one 8, one 8.5, then the 9s and 10s that had equal centering and thus eye appeal. It's just amazing how many of the extant 1952 Mantles have poor centering. And I just could never pony up for say an 8 that had bad centering. To me, what makes a 52 Mantle unique from its brethren is decent centering.

    I then asked myself, "What will any of those other centered specimens go for if they ever hit the market, especially after this 4.5 hammers?"

    The obvious answer to that question was, "More than I could afford."

    So that meant if I ever wanted to own a dream centered version of the icon, I had to win this freakish 4.5, or forever hold my peace. >>



    Yup my bad...I read it as without BP, but the 36K includes it. Regardless of 36 or 42K, it's a great card
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  • hockeycrazyhockeycrazy Posts: 309 ✭✭
    Congratulations! That's a beauty!
  • hyperchipper09hyperchipper09 Posts: 1,455 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Congratulations! That's a beauty! >>



    Agreed. Top of the line 4.5
  • esquiresportsesquiresports Posts: 1,360 ✭✭✭
    It's a gorgeous card. Congratulations. That bid held for more than a week, right? The only thing that gave me pause when I first saw it was possible scan manipulation. Can the card, particularly the corners, be so bright white, etc.? Regardless, it is pretty amazing and, like you said, one of the few centered ones out there.
    Always buying 1971 OPC Baseball packs.
  • mattyc_collectionmattyc_collection Posts: 2,130 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Card Country/Jeff can vouch-- he saw it in person. Yup-- me and a couple other guys went at it like mad in the opening 45 seconds. Literally. It was all inside the opening minute. Made for a nerve-wracking three weeks!

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  • cardcountrycardcountry Posts: 571 ✭✭✭
    I saw it in person at the sun times show. It actually looked nicer in person than it does on the scan IMO. My buddy craig thought so too.

    Jeff
    Jeff Foy/Dave Foy
    Card Country
    Graded stars 1950's-1980
  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 31,134 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Congratulations!
  • grote15grote15 Posts: 29,742 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Oh, only $36,400? Nevermind, that's pocket change. >>



    Or the cost of a 1978 Topps baseball wax box in about 5 years.. image

    Sweet card, Matty!


    Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
  • mrmint23mrmint23 Posts: 2,249 ✭✭✭
    Congrats...did not realize you were back.
  • mattyc_collectionmattyc_collection Posts: 2,130 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I occasionally commandeer my cousin's macbook when we are hanging out. He's a math professor and not much for long posts, as I am prone to, so it's easy to tell when I'm at the helm image

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  • ThoseBackPagesThoseBackPages Posts: 4,871 ✭✭
    What becomes of the PSA 3? image
    Big Fan of: HOF Post War RC, Graded RCs
    WTB: PSA 1 - PSA 3 Centered, High Eye Appeal 1950's Mantle
  • mattyc_collectionmattyc_collection Posts: 2,130 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It's gotta get sold now. Thought of keeping both versions but wanna have some variety in the collection. Giving one collector friend I know first crack at it for his Mick collection.

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  • DniceDnice Posts: 848
    That sure is a beauty. Crazy to own that card in any condition I feel.
  • esquiresportsesquiresports Posts: 1,360 ✭✭✭
    It really is stunning. Between that and the Ruth RC, it doesn't get much better - literally. And that Ruth - such a stunner and undervalued card (to me) right now. Probably not for long. What's next on the to-do list? Cracker Jack, maybe?
    Always buying 1971 OPC Baseball packs.
  • cpamikecpamike Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭
    Congrats Matty!! I know how you feel about that card so it is awesome that you were able to upgrade to such a nicely centered example.

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    "The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
    But I have promises to keep,
    And miles to go before I sleep,
    And miles to go before I sleep."

    "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."

    Collecting:
    Any unopened Baseball cello and rack packs and boxes from the 1970's and early 1980s.
  • bobbyw8469bobbyw8469 Posts: 7,139 ✭✭✭
    I'm dumbfounded that card is only a 4.5. I doubt seriously you are gonna crack it out, but you've got to tell us exactly what you think made it a 4.5 when you get it in hand. To my amateur eyes, it looks like an easy '6' all day long!
  • BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 9,556 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Always nice to see a "homer" on the forum make such a score to bolster their collection.
    Successful transactions:Tookybandit. "Everyone is equal, some are more equal than others".
  • MisterBungleMisterBungle Posts: 2,308 ✭✭✭

    Wow!! Such an iconic card, and with great eye appeal.

    Congratulations!!

    ~


    "America suffers today from too much pluribus and not enough unum.".....Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

  • DboneesqDboneesq Posts: 18,219 ✭✭
    Matt M?????

    Wow, that is a GORGEOUS card! Congrats and enjoy. Presents AMAZINGLY well for the grade.
    STAY HEALTHY!

    Doug

    Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
  • neildownneildown Posts: 183
    Oh hell yeah.

  • vladguerrerovladguerrero Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭
    Im with Bobby... I dont even see it as a 5... maybe a 5.5 I suppose.
  • TNP777TNP777 Posts: 5,710 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Im with Bobby... I dont even see it as a 5... maybe a 5.5 I suppose. >>

    As a hobby light flyweight, I don't know how to go about getting a bump on such a card. Can't you send it in for review while still in the slab, and if it won't bump they send it back as is?

    Dodgers collection scans | Brett Butler registry | 1978 Dodgers - straight 9s, homie
  • itzagoneritzagoner Posts: 8,753 ✭✭
    that could be the ultimo feast-r-famine.

    imagine: a bumped up Mickey to make your collecting achievement list explode.........or a Post-It note with an arrow on it.
  • mattyc_collectionmattyc_collection Posts: 2,130 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Thx for feeling it; according to Bill, there's a very short micro-wrinkle not readily visible to the naked eye along the upper left border which accounts for the rather harsh grade. It was raw and graded by the owner-family just prior to being consigned. I've been advised to seek a review forthwith, but cool either way; this card will be with me until I'm a very, very old man; can't ever see paying for a higher graded one-- which would essentially mean just paying for corners. Definitely content to let the cardboard speak for itself in this case, versus higher numerical grades with poor centering. 'Card not holder,' as the sage mantra goes. Next time me and Clockwork are grabbing some eats down by Newport might roll the review dice for fun, as it technically still should merit 5 to 6 and looks like it got the infamous Grader O' Death, but it's all good.

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  • vettfanaticvettfanatic Posts: 643 ✭✭✭
    I saw this card in person this weekend also and have to say it looked better in person then in the scan. I can't believe it is only a PSA 4.5 Congrats on the pickup.

    Jeff
  • mattyc_collectionmattyc_collection Posts: 2,130 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>What becomes of the PSA 3? image >>



    Thosebackpages,

    My beloved and longtime centerpiece 3 officially sold yesterday, to a very passionate longtime Mantle collector. Really wanted to find a way to hold onto it, but would then have had to part with too many other favorites. Was a tough call for sure, brother.

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  • CubbyCubby Posts: 2,096 ✭
    OMG..what a beautiful card!


    BTW: Cubby=Cub Fan
  • akuracy503akuracy503 Posts: 1,923 ✭✭✭
    The Cadillac of 1950's baseball cards, congratulations!

    CU Ancient Members badge member.

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  • yankeesmanyankeesman Posts: 990 ✭✭✭✭✭
    ....Wow. That is a stunning example of arguably the most iconic card in the hobby. Definitely a potential bump there for sure as I don't think it would look out of place at all in a 6 holder. Stunning pickup.

    I like your screen name too. My email address is donybasblhof23@aol.com. image

    The Charlie Murphy is hilarious too! Nice touch.

    Congratulations on a once in a lifetime pickup. Enjoy!
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  • stownstown Posts: 11,321 ✭✭✭
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    : standing ovation :
    So basically my kid won't be able to go to college, but at least I'll have a set where the three most expensive cards are of a player I despise ~ CDsNuts
  • mattyc_collectionmattyc_collection Posts: 2,130 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Here is a proper scan just taken by me. The centering and color in hand are simply staggering. The scan atop this thread may have also been updated because of how the scans link to collector focus.

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    God bless egregiously under-graded cards image

    I feel compelled on a cellular level to add a new GIF below, to express my feelings in this moment.

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