Wait a second, the 1951 Bowman PSA 9 Mickey Mantle rookie only sold for $750,000 ?
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Are you kidding me ? Why ?
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Maybe it's just quite ready to be a million dollar card. On the other hand, is it my imagination or does anyone else think some of the prices were a little softer in this recent Heritage auction?
$750,000 is a huge sum of money. Let alone to be spent on a card.
I've seen posts here and there that express being underwhelmed by certain sales prices— but we need to remember it is very easy to get carried away when the expectations are about another's money and not one's own.
Kind of reminds me of baseball; we get so disappointed when a player we want to perform doesn't deliver— yet the game is really, really, really hard.
Much in the same way making enough money to spend $750,000 on a card is really, really, really hard. And rare. So I am pretty impressed anytime a card sells for near six digits, let alone near seven or above.
I suppose it is all a question of how one calibrates one's initial expectations.
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"Only" $750,000? Come on now.
We all realize that's really his rookie card, but for a variety of reasons, it just doesn't have the same "aura" as Evan's recent $2.8 mil card. And when it comes to collecting anything, aura has value, sometimes a heckuva lot of value.
It’s so rare for a card to hit the 1mill mark.
I believe only the 52 Mantle and the t206 Wagner have done it.
I do not think even the king (Babe Ruth) has a card hit 1mil yet.
750k does seem like a bargain but only cuz the 52 is a 3mil card lmo
51 psa 9 lsat sold for 40k just 10 years ago. Give it a few more years and I’m sure it will hit 1mil.
Well, the previous auction price for a PSA 9 was $588,000 in October 2017, so less than a year ago. Looks like it's on the way up.
Perhaps Renoir, Da Vinci, and Van Gogh now have some competition.
Had to at least see the card.
Ya never know - a perfectly centered one might have hit the 1 million?
This is pure conjecture but if a really nice copy of Ruth's first card were to surface?
I believe it would hit the million mark.
1914 Baltimore News
Indeed, indeed... They can't all be centered like this!
The other seems to comparatively be swimming in the holder
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I know there is rarity on the ‘52 but very few 2nd year cards outsell the rookie card. I have always thought as modern collectors get accustomed to Bowman rookie cards this one will creep up. Unfortunately I am not in this ballpark to put $ where theory lies.
Right? I could pay off my house and probably quit my job and live of the interest.
It'd certainly work for me! Sell the "9" and buy a 3 or a 4, keep the change.