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MLB‘s sizzling range season is carrying over to the memorabilia market, the set a 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle trading card equipped for a listing $1,605,150 on Saturday night by Goldin Auctions.
An NM-MT 8, the rookie card has honest 14 greater-rated counterparts in existence and elicited 27 bids after the starting up price was as soon as situation at $125,000.
Here’s how Goldin described the lot:
“Here is Topps’ first depiction of Mickey Mantle. Though the Yankee tale had been immortalized the year earlier than by the Brooklyn gum company’s rival, Bowman, the “Huge Size” 1952 Topps commemorative carried an undeniable, particular mystique. The flagship field in ’52 Topps’ noteworthy-awaited remaining sequence (which was as soon as in actual fact chock-crammed with standard Yankees, Dodgers and Giants avid gamers), the Mantle card has persevered to ride reverence among a couple of, succeeding generations of collectors.
Very seldom does this trophy gum card appear with all virtues in manufactured excellence, stage of preservation and harmonious stumble on-charm so beautifully fulfilled. Here’s a merely supreme collectible, in gorgeous Shut to Mint to Mint situation.”
Years after his loss of life in 1995, Mantle is peaceable finding ways to situation records and wow fans.
