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Summary: An antiques expert shows you the basics for collecting Mickey Mantle baseball cards in this free video on antiques.
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About the Expert
Jan Braunstein Jan Braunstein owns and operates the Antique Avenue antiques store in Pomona, California. Her mother also owned an antiques store. She is a certified antique ... read more
Mickey Mantle once again. Everybody wants Mickey. Mickey Mantle. Here's another one. This one is actually from 1958 and you can tell the date of these cards by looking in the back and they'll list different stats from different years so you assume that the year right after is in the back would be the year that this card is from because you wouldn't know the stat from the next year, only the year prior. Clever, ehh? Anyway, this particular Mickey Mantle card you see that I have 45 dollars on it and this is another one of those cards that if in fact it was in mint condition, which its not, its Mickey Mantle #350 by the way. If you want to look up a baseball card you can look it up this magazine is called Tuff Stuff. It?s a great one, it comes out monthly. There's also kind of the one that everybody looks for is Becketts and that one you can find in your local Borders and Becketts comes this one covers all the sports, but Becketts comes in a baseball, basketball, all the sports cards are covered in different magazines. But as I was saying, since this wasn't in mint condition, let's take a look why. This is a no-brainer. Some child bent it and not only did they bend it, but taped it. Wrong wrong wrong. Don't mess with your cards.