AR / ITEM / 00100403
1952 Topps Mickey Mantle #311, SGC 9.5
The finest-known 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle, from a 1986 find in Quincy, Massachusetts, sold by Heritage in 2022 for $12.6 million.
- Date
- 1952
- Reference
- #311
- Catalogue
- 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle #311
Plate not recorded
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Record
Topps's 1952 set was its first large baseball issue, and card #311 opened its last series. In 1986 the dealer Alan 'Mr. Mint' Rosen bought some 5,500 1952 Topps cards, including dozens of Mantles, from a find in Quincy, Massachusetts. At a card show in 1991 he sold this Mantle, ungraded, for $50,000 to the collector Anthony Giordano, who kept it at home in south-eastern Pennsylvania for three decades. Offered at auction for the first time by Heritage, it sold on 28 August 2022 for $12.6 million, then a record for any sports collectible.
- Culture
- American
- Medium
- Printed card
- Origin
- United States
In the Tapestry
- Depicts
- Mickey MantleB
- Depicts
- New York YankeesB
- Associated with · 2022
- Heritage AuctionsB
Sources
- A
ESPN, '1952 Topps Mickey Mantle card sells for $12.6 million, shattering record'
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Heritage Auctions, 'Heritage Auctions Sells 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle Rookie Card for $12.6 Million'
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