JAKARTA - Check your personal collection of items again, such as sports collections such as jerseys or memorabilia with the athlete's signature, ready to know that someone has the potential to have an exorbitant price.
Like this one, a baseball card double Mantle from 1952 sold for $12,600,000. or around Rp. 187,642,990,000 last week, according to CNN from Heritage Auctions Aug. 29.
The sale makes the card the most valuable collection of sports in the world, according to the auction house.
The price was almost double the previous record for a set of baseball cards, when Wagner's rare Honus card sold for $6.6 million last year.
And it also beat the record for any sporting memorabilia item, surpassing the sale of Diego Maradona's famous 'Hand of God' jersey for $9.3 million.
advance Mantle's card is very valuable because it is well maintained. The card is considered "Mitt+ 9.5" by Sportscard Guaranty Corporation, according to Heritage Auctions.
Mantle spent 17 years playing for the New York totaled, then into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974. The card that broke this record came from his rookie season and was produced by the Topps trading card giant.
For auction houses, these sales represent the increasing attractiveness of sports collections.
"The result of an eight-digit auction in the sports market is fantasy just a decade ago," said Chris intermediate director of sports auction Heritage.
"We always knew this card would break records and expectations. But that doesn't reduce the sensation of being part of the auction, where one item breaks the eight-digit threshold for the first time."
This is a great achievement. for our outstanding team of sports experts at Heritage Auctions. And, of course, we can't do it without Anthony Giordano, who put his trust in Heritage to bring this incredible card to market."
Anthony Giordano bought the Mantle card at a record-breaking price in 1991 for $50,000. He kept it for three decades before bringing it to Heritage Auctions.
"Ini memiliki kualitas terbaik yang dapat dimiliki Topps 1952: pemusatan sempurna, pendaftaran, dan empat sudupan tajam," terang handi handiwa.
"That this Mantle rookie card has remained in this condition for 70 years is a true miracle," he concluded.
The holy grail of baseball cards, a PSA gem mint 10 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle rookie card, has arrived in Denver 🤩 pic.twitter.com/FUoRveT8j5
— Colorado Rockies (@Rockies) July 10, 2021
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