April 3, 2025: Spring Auction
Here’s one of the toughest and most elegant food issues of the postwar era, represented by the most important card in the set, the 1960 Post Cereal Grape Nuts Sports Stars “cards” that pictured nine of the greatest names in professional sports of the period. At 7-by-8 ¾ inches, the oversized cards pictured nine MLB stars and four others from basketball and football, bordered in a wood frame and featuring a nameplate at the bottom. The offered lot features Mickey Mantle, easily the most coveted and expensive of the nine, in this case with the entire box back and two side panels, measuring 11 ¼-by-12 ¼ inches. The piece is cut in the fairly typical fashion, with the Mantle card in Good condition, with some light creasing to the frame along the bottom.
1960 Post Grape Nuts Mickey Mantle Uncut ½ Box
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