Spring Premier Auction 2016
Wed, Apr 6, 2016 08:00PM EDT - Sun, Apr 24, 2016 11:00AM EDT
Timed Auction
Lot 198
1952 TOPPS BASEBALL COMPLETE SET OF 407 WITH EX PSA 5 #311 MICKEY MANTLE ROOKIE
Sold for
$125,331.60
Sold Price includes BP
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Beautifully matched EX to EX-MT overall 1952 Topps Baseball set with the vast majority of cards appearing to fall within that range with some better and a few worse. All of the key Hall of Fame cards have been PSA graded with all coming back EX PSA 5 or better. The key #311 Mickey Mantle is a very well centered EX PSA 5 with great eye appeal. Card features excellent color with perfect picture registration. Corners are EX overall. Front and back are both clean. Centering is about dead on 50/50 side to side and 55/45 or so top to bottom. A very solid EX PSA 5! The 1952 Topps Baseball issue is undoubtedly one of the 3 most important sets in the hobby along with 1933 Goudey gum and the T206 tobacco. Their larger size gained hold of the early 1950's youngsters and placed Topps at the forefront of the bubble gum sport card business eclipsing the Bowman company which held had held sway in the marketplace since 1948. 64 years later Topps is still the leader in the industry. 29 cards have recently been sent to PSA by us including Jackie Robinson Duke Snider Leo Durocher Billy Herman and Richie Ashburn. All came back in PSA holders except the #22 Dom DiMaggio which came back altered. The 53 PSA graded cards are as follows:
NM-MT PSA 8 (8) - #33 Spahn(HOF) 65 Slaughter(HOF) 67 Reynolds 207 313 Thomson 333 Reese(HOF) 357 Burgess 377 Dressen.
NM+ PSA 7.5 (3) - #242 292 405.
NM PSA 7 (17) - #11 Rizzuto(HOF) 20 Loes 23 37 Snider(HOF) 57 Lopat 175 Martin 191 Berra(HOF) 204 234 287 325 332 362 375 398 400 Dickey(HOF) 403.
EX-MT+ PSA 6.5 (1) - #315 Durocher(HOF).
EX-MT PSA 6 (11) - #2 Runnels 8 203 216 Ashburn(HOF) 261 Mays(HOF) 265 273 285 314 Campanella(HOF) 381 407 Mathews(HOF).
EX+ PSA 5.5 (1) - #373 Turner.
EX PSA 5 (6) - #1 Pafko 295 Cavaretta 311 Mantle(HOF) 312 Robinson(HOF) 318 320 348(MK) 384 Crosetti 394 Herman(HOF).
VG-EX_+ PSA 4.5 (1) - #343.
VG-EX PSA 4 (2) - #129 Mize(HOF) 406 Nuxhall.
There are 17 cards in the high numbers that have had their corners touched up with white. Some are barely noticible while others are easily spotted. These cards are: #317 323 327 330 340 344 353 354 360 369 372 McDougald 374 390 391 396 Dick Williams 397 and 404.
Excellent opportunity to pick up a very evenly matched EX/EX-MT looking 1952 Topps set with a great looking EX PSA 5 Mickey Mantle and all other key Hall of Famers PSA graded!
Over $80000 individual SMR value in the 53 graded cards alone.
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