2020 Late December Auction Closing January 3
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/3/2021
Offered is a lot of two Mickey Mantle and Billy Martin signed rookie series lithographic prints in framed displays. The first item in this lot is a Billy Martin signature in blue marker in the lower center of a limited-edition Nostalgia Sports Legends “Rookie Series 1” lithograph featuring a reproduction of a pencil head & shoulder portrait of the young New York Yankees second baseman, with his career playing statistics printed in black in the lower left. The logo “Rookie Series 1” is in black type over an illustration of a baseball at the center of two crossed baseball bats. The 19 x 25-inch print is signed by the artist, Daniel A. Cooney, in gray graphite pencil above the statistics block. The print is inscribed “72/100” in gray graphite pencil above Cooney’s signature. The print is displayed in a 19 x 25-inch black wood with glass frame. This item comes with a COA from Nostalgia Sports Legends. The second item in this lot is a Mickey Mantle signature in blue marker in the lower center of a limited-edition Nostalgia Sports Legends “Rookie Series 7” lithograph featuring a reproduction of a pencil head & shoulder portrait of the young Hall of Fame New York Yankees centerfielder during his debut season, with his career playing statistics printed in black in the lower left. The logo “Rookie Series 7” is in black type over an illustration of a baseball at the center of two crossed baseball bats. The 19 x 25-inch print is signed by the artist, Daniel A. Cooney, in gray graphite pencil above the statistics block. The print is inscribed “841/1000” in gray graphite pencil above Cooney’s signature. The print is displayed in a 19 x 25-inch black wood with glass frame. This item comes with a COA from Nostalgia Sports Legends, and a LOA from Beckett Authentication, which has graded Mantle’s signature a GEM MT 10.