Winter Auction 2017 Ending January 29
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/29/2017
Graded PR 1 by PSA. Hall of Famer. Fewer than fifty examples of this collectible have been validated by PSA. From one of the rarest of all early 1950s regional sets, this showpiece was released in the first year of the Stahl-Meyer brand hot dog insert production. Distributed on a one-card-per-package basis, and available only in the New York area, Stahl-Meyer cards are widely appreciated in the modern hobby – with no individual player more so than superstar Mickey Mantle. This well-centered example displays the issue's rounded corners (so designed to avoid puncturing the meat product's external packaging) and the heavy wax coating intended to protect the card, in turn, from being ruined by proximity to raw hot dogs! Circumstances of handling have brought about a horizontal crease in the offered card's top quadrant, as well as small spots of product staining, but the Yankee great's smiling portrait remains bright and essentially undisturbed. A prized and ever-elusive Mickey Mantle rarity, in still-pleasing Poor condition.