Winter 2020 Catalog Auction Ending Feb 22
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/23/2020
Presented is a Mickey Mantle signature in a framed display celebrating his New York Yankees career from 1951 to 1968. Mantle has signed his name in black marker on a 7½ x 10-inch ivory page with his lifetime statistics and major achievements, alongside a 2½ x 4½-inch color publicity photograph of Mantle at bat in his white Yankees uniform. The Mantle signature is accompanied by the signature of Kathleen Hampton (in black marker), a Texas Notary Public, dated August 22, 1989. The signed page is mounted in a 11 x 14-inch powder-blue paper matte, with a 3 x 3-inch gold metal plaque with black engraving that reads “Mickey Mantle New York Yankees” at the upper right. Below the plaque is a 2½ x 3½-inch color photograph of Mantle posed, kneeling with a bat in the on-deck circle at Yankee Stadium. The mounted signed page, plaque and photo is further mounted on an 18 x 28-inch navy-blue felt matte, with Mantle’s number, 7, embroidered in white and his last name reproduced from his signature, also embroidered in white. At the top of the 8½ x 8½-inch number is embroidered, in gold, “Triple Crown – 1956”. The display is set in an 18 x 29 gold metal and glass frame. This item comes with a photo of Mantle signing the displayed certificate in front of a notary public in Dallas, Texas in September 1984. This item comes with a LOA from JSA.