Getting Our Mantles Back

We just had a long-time customer sell sixteen Mickey Mantle cards back to us. The cards range from 1953 all the way to 1969 and include five cards that grade PSA 7. We originally wrote about most of these cards in our of our first blogs, which talked about all of the PSA-graded Mantle cards. Most of these cards sold a few months after this original blog article was written. Everything else grades Excellent and above. The consensus at the office is that the rarest of these cards is the 1955 Bowman. We rarely get a chance to see this card due to condition issues, which stand out on the wood grain television border, and scarcity.

This is a pretty thorough collection of the Mick's career but also demonstrates the evolution of both Topps and Bowman as they celebrated one of the best hitters of the 1950's and 1960's. Listed below is the entire collection and links to the individual card on our website.

1953 Topps #82 Mickey Mantle - VG/Ex
1954 Bowman #65 Mickey Mantle - SGC 70 EX+ 5.5
1955 Bowman #202 Mickey Mantle - VG/Ex
1956 Topps #135 Mickey Mantle - Ex/Mt
1957 Topps #95 Mickey Mantle - VG/Ex
1958 Topps #150 Mickey Mantle - Ex/Mt
1959 Topps #10 Mickey Mantle - PSA 7 NM
1960 Topps #350 Mickey Mantle - PSA 7 NM
1961 Topps #300 Mickey Mantle - Ex/Mt
1962 Topps #200 Mickey Mantle - Ex
1963 Topps #200 Mickey Mantle - PSA 7 NM
1964 Topps #50 Mickey Mantle - Ex/Mt
1965 Topps #350 Mickey Mantle - Ex/Mt
1966 Topps #150 Mickey Mantle - PSA 7 NM
1968 Topps #280 Mickey Mantle - PSA 7 NM
1969 Topps #500A Mickey Mantle (yellow letters) - Ex/Mt