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Whale Harpooned

mattyc_collectionmattyc_collection Posts: 2,135 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Way, way, way back when, at the beginning of my Mantle collecting days, I remember one day saying to myself, "I may never see a centered 1957 Mick. And if I do, what the heck are the odds of it having a good image?"

That was about twenty years ago.

And then this card comes along.

It just blew me away at first sight. Cut to 4AM last night, and my last bid held.

I've owned some nice ones, but nothing close to this specimen.

Do I wish it was in a 6 or 7 holder with some unseen flaw? Sure. That would've been easier on the wallet.

Yet the door swings both ways, and so I am grateful it was not in a 9 or 8.5 holder...yet ;)

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  • Panama Mutiny Panama Mutiny Posts: 2,196 ✭✭✭✭

    your last bid held? you dont use sniper ?

    i COLLECT THESE
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_players_from_Panama
  • mattyc_collectionmattyc_collection Posts: 2,135 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It was an Auction House, no sniping the way we can on eBay.

    Instagram: mattyc_collection

  • Panama Mutiny Panama Mutiny Posts: 2,196 ✭✭✭✭

    by the way that is some sweet card

    i COLLECT THESE
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_players_from_Panama
  • seebelowseebelow Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭

    sweet card...congrats

    Interested in higher grade vintage cards. Aren't we all. image
  • JBrulesJBrules Posts: 2,130 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Wow! That is about a good as it gets centering, image etc... Well played. Congrats.

  • secretstashsecretstash Posts: 1,396 ✭✭✭✭

    Beautiful card and centering!

  • mattyc_collectionmattyc_collection Posts: 2,135 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thanks so much. Felt like a kid again going to sleep with such anticipation. Couldn't stay up til auction close.

    Instagram: mattyc_collection

  • baseballfanbaseballfan Posts: 5,467 ✭✭✭

    beautiful congrats!!

    I need 1 for my set but it wont be that nice I'm sure

    Fred

    collecting RAW Topps baseball cards 1952 Highs to 1972. looking for collector grade (somewhere between psa 4-7 condition). let me know what you have, I'll take it, I want to finish sets, I must have something you can use for trade.

    looking for Topps 71-72 hi's-62-53-54-55-59, I have these sets started

  • SpinFadeSplash23SpinFadeSplash23 Posts: 909 ✭✭✭

    Stellar pickup!

    Joe

    IG: goatcollectibles23

    The biggest lesson I've learned in this hobby, and in life, is that if you have a strong conviction, you owe it to yourself to see it through. Don't sell yourself, or your investments, short. Unless the facts change. Then sell it all.
  • sinoth23sinoth23 Posts: 152 ✭✭

    Nice score...great example.

  • Panama Mutiny Panama Mutiny Posts: 2,196 ✭✭✭✭

    if i had had a mickey that would be the card!.

    i COLLECT THESE
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_players_from_Panama
  • divecchiadivecchia Posts: 6,688 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That is one awesome looking Mantle card and one I would definitely be proud to own. :+1::+1:

    Congrats on a great pickup.

    Donato

    Hobbyist & Collector (not an investor).
    Donato's Complete US Type Set ---- Donato's Dansco 7070 Modified Type Set ---- Donato's Basic U.S. Coin Design Set

    Successful transactions: Shrub68 (Jim), MWallace (Mike)
  • mintonlyplsmintonlypls Posts: 2,267 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 22, 2017 10:10AM

    DM23HOF...

    Outstanding card! For comparison purposes...here is my psa-8.5. You have an excellent shot at a bump to an 8.5!

    mint_only_pls
  • Arsenal83Arsenal83 Posts: 1,176 ✭✭✭

    Congrats Matt. That is some sexy cardboard right there.

    Brian

  • slimiesslimies Posts: 1,132 ✭✭✭✭✭

    great looking mantle

  • KendallCatKendallCat Posts: 3,016 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Glad to see your bid held - I know when we signed off texting around 1 am it was still up in the air. If anyone can find a dead centered 57 Mantle it is Matt!

    I am just going to wait for Monte to get tired of his 57 Mantle

  • lilmulelilmule Posts: 1,001 ✭✭✭✭

    Wow!!! not just a whale but a freaking Dinosaur. Congrats on the pickup, that is truly impressive.

    Knotty Hobby Woodworks
    Vintage Rookies
  • BrickBrick Posts: 5,000 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Wow. Times two.

    Collecting 1960 Topps Baseball in PSA 8
    http://www.unisquare.com/store/brick/

    Ralph

  • FrozencaribouFrozencaribou Posts: 1,094 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That is an 8.5 if I've ever seen one. Incredible card!

    Nathanael

  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,438 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice

    Merry Christmas

    Mike
  • jay0791jay0791 Posts: 3,563 ✭✭✭✭

    woah baby !!!
    awesome Nicest I have ever seen

    Collecting PSA... FB,BK,HK,and BB HOF RC sets
    1948-76 Topps FB Sets
    FB & BB HOF Player sets
    1948-1993 NY Yankee Team Sets
  • JBLJBL Posts: 35 ✭✭✭

    Awesome pickup as always Matt!

  • HighGradeLegendsHighGradeLegends Posts: 1,693 ✭✭✭✭

    Holy centering! well done

  • KendallCatKendallCat Posts: 3,016 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Can't wait to see the scan with the dark background. Of all of the years of Mantle's I have collected the 57 is the toughest to find centered no matter what the grade. Add focus issues and print issues and this card is a unicorn.

  • CWCW Posts: 1,221 ✭✭✭

    Beautiful. Congratulations, Matt!

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  • mintonlyplsmintonlypls Posts: 2,267 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @1970s said:
    Outstanding card. Who is the ghost image behind the top of Mickey's bat ?

    Groundskeeper...it is his rookie card.

    mint_only_pls
  • RookieHOFersRookieHOFers Posts: 733 ✭✭✭

    Matt, You have a wonderful eye! That card is no exception. Congrats on another wonderful addition to your collection.

    Matt
    I collect: 80’s Rookies and 86 Fleer Basketball
  • RookieHOFersRookieHOFers Posts: 733 ✭✭✭

    P.S. Merry Christmas to you and your brother!

    Matt
    I collect: 80’s Rookies and 86 Fleer Basketball
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  • rexvosrexvos Posts: 3,319 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I absolutely love that card. Congrats.

    Looking for FB HOF Rookies
  • LOTSOSLOTSOS Posts: 1,309 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @DM23HOF said:
    Really appreciate the nice words and the ability to share it here. The wife and kids just cannot fully comprehend my joy today— only fellow collectors who know the utter brutality of centering and image on that particular card! Cannot wait to do a proper scan against a black background.

    That's what makes this place cool! Congrats on a well placed harpoon.

    Kevin

    Kevin

  • hyperchipper09hyperchipper09 Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That's a heluva nice looking Mantle.

  • shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,621 ✭✭✭✭

    That card is...AWESOME. Congrats, Matt!

    "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."
  • originalisbestoriginalisbest Posts: 5,971 ✭✭✭✭

    @1970s said:

    @mintonlypls said:

    @1970s said:
    Outstanding card. Who is the ghost image behind the top of Mickey's bat ?

    Groundskeeper...it is his rookie card.

    ???

    The joke here is that ghost image is on every example of this card - a groundskeeper was retouched out of the background of the photo. And because this same groundskeeper was probably never on a card before or since - it's his rookie!

    Really amazing 8 and 8.5 examples shown. I'd love either but it is true, the 8 has centering that seems technically perfect.

  • CenteredMantlesCenteredMantles Posts: 164 ✭✭✭

    I don't post too often anymore but check in from time to time. If there is one thing that can get me typing it is a CENTERED MANTLE. I don't think i have ever seen one that well centered. I have a creased up PSA 1.5 that was the best I've seen until this one. I haven't measured pixels but who needs to...that thing is as 50/50 all around as a '57 gets. great focus too. Great pick up brother, I knew you would land it when you texted it to me.

    And a very Merry Xmas to you as well Matt!

  • mintonlyplsmintonlypls Posts: 2,267 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 24, 2017 2:13PM

    Matt...

    What auction house had this card up for auction? I hope you receive the bump it deserves! I measured my 8.5 with a 1/100 ruler...and it came up 52/48 both side to side and top to bottom on the centering. I harpooned my Moby Dick in a Heritage Auction back about 2013. Merry Xmas and enjoy the card...I see it is already on your CU site.

    Monte

    mint_only_pls
  • mattyc_collectionmattyc_collection Posts: 2,135 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @RookieHOFers said:
    P.S. Merry Christmas to you and your brother!

    Matt,

    Thanks and to you as well!

    Monte,

    The auction house was Sirius. I had lost a great 62 and 58 in their auctions in the past, so did not want to walk away empty on this one!

    Instagram: mattyc_collection

  • mintonlyplsmintonlypls Posts: 2,267 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Matt...

    I wasn't aware of Sirius,,,so thanks for the heads up. I will have to follow them now.

    Monte

    mint_only_pls
  • SOMSOM Posts: 1,555 ✭✭✭

    What a personal Christmas present! Congratualtions...and Merry Christmas, of course
    :)

  • KendallCatKendallCat Posts: 3,016 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Had heard of Sirius but never followed until he texted me that night during the auction. Was rooting for him to win that one - such a great card and will just wait for the next sweet 57 Mantle centered. Merry Christmas everyone!

    KC

  • pokerplyr80pokerplyr80 Posts: 1 ✭

    It doesn't get much better than that. Congrats on the pick up.

  • ExodusExodus Posts: 348 ✭✭✭

    I love centered cards with great images too. Need I say any words about that 58 Mantle.

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