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High-grade 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle card, Babe Ruth gems headline Goldin Vintage auction
Goldin opened its June Vintage Elite Auction on May 28, and it is fittingly headlined by the iconic card now known as the hobby’s holy grail.
A 1952 Topps #311 Mickey Mantle card graded PSA NM-MT 8 ranks among the top five to 10 percent of all known PSA 8 examples, according to Goldin.
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PSA has issued only 35 PSA 8 grades for the rare card. A SGC 9.5 example set a sports card record in 2022, selling for $12.6 million. PSA 8 prices have ranged from $1.1 to $1.5 million.
Two other coveted Mantle cards also headline the auction—a 1951 Bowman #253 Mantle Rookie graded PSA 8, with only 10 copies graded higher; and a 1957 Topps #95 Mantle graded PSA MINT 9.
The auction, which runs through June 20, also features just one of nine examples of a 1933 Goudey #144 Babe Ruth-signed card in any grade, with the offered copy among the finest known autographed examples, according to Goldin.
Two other Ruth cards also headline the auction—a 1917 Boston Store H801-8 #147 Ruth, one of just 11 total documented examples across both PSA and SGC, and a 1915 Boston Red Sox Team Photo Postcard featuring Ruth's first-ever appearance on any cardboard collectible.
Other iconic vintage cards in the auction include:
• A 1955 Topps #164 Roberto Clemente Rookie (PSA NM-MT+ 8.5), one of just two known copies with the 8.5 grade with only 12 graded higher.
• 1910 E104-2 Nadja Caramel Honus Wagner (SGC VG-EX 4), one of just eight documented examples in any grade across both PSA and SGC.
• 1914 E145 Cracker Jack #57 Walter Johnson (SGC NM 7).
• 1971 O-Pee-Chee #160 Tom Seaver (PSA GEM MINT 10), the finest known example.
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