Late Summer Auction SESSION 2 CLOSING SEPT 21 10PM EASTERN FOR INITIAL BIDS
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/21/2020
Graded PR 1 by SGC. Hall of Famer. From one of the rarest of all early 1950s regional sets, this showpiece was released in the first year of the Stahl-Meyer brand's 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! The effects of handling during past decades have brought about a number of (relatively faint) creases, and the inevitable product staining is evident, but the popular Yankee's smiling portrait remains bright and fundamentally undisturbed. A prized and ever-elusive Mickey Mantle rarity, in still-pleasing Poor condition.