1969 Topps Mickey Mantle #500

I once owned this very card. The auto is so stylishly executed. Add a distraction-free image and it cracks into the A Tier of eye appeal for my taste. The obvious centering, so endemic to the 1969 Mick, would normally cap the proceedings at a very respectable B+.

Auto is virtually perfect. The tilt lowers the eye-appeal for me.

Wow that autograph jumps off the page and it is well placed, bold, clean and legible. The card has minor issues and is off center but that Auto carries the day