41 Armour Al hits the jackpot

 

A large group of 1955 Armour coins went up for auction in September and once again I missed them. This time my excuse is that I was at a family wedding. What was your excuse for missing this lot ??

 



Lets call it the 2018 NY Mantle lot for reasons you'll shortly understand. This lot consisted of 241 1955 coins as shown below

This pic comes to us direct from Armour Al and is not the photo included in the EBay auction. From the auction pic it was very hard to identify exactly what was in the lot. The seller had it up for sale for $3000 or best offer and many of you contacted the seller to see exactly what was in the lot and sort out how to make a bid.

Armour Al immediately made an offer of $2200 which was accepted before  many of you could get your offers in. So exactly what did he get for his money ?

                                      99 orange; 30 yellow; 7 green; 55 aqua; 50 navy blue..... NO Reds ??

By player :

ANtonelli NY 3                              Antonelli New York - 2
Berra - 13                                       Crandall - 7
Doby - 13                                       Finigan O - 5
Finigan Q - 7                                 Ford - 4
Gillliam L or R - 1                        Gilliam L - R - 3
Gilliam tight - 0                            Haddix wide - 7
Haddix - narrow - 6                      Jackson nfielder - 4
Jackson Infielder - 7                    Jensen Reb - 3
Jensen Red - 4                              Klu - 11
Kuenn wide - 5                            Kuenn condensed - 4
Kuenn bats/throws - 4                 Mantle error - 3
Mantle correct L or R - 3            Mantle correct L - R - 2
Mueller - 7                                  Reese - 10
Reynolds - 15                             Rosen - 16
Simmons - 4                               Snider decimal - 3
Snider no decimal - 6                 Spahn - 15
Thomas - 8                                 Trucks 1 wrd - 4
Trucks 2 wrds - 4                        Turley - 10
Vernon 16

A quick look and any Armour collector should be saying 5 Mantle correct !

A look at the pic below and you can see all 5 of the Mantle corrects are yellow. Comparing notes with SFLA Yank we know of fewer than 6 yellow Mantle correct in existance...up till now !

Next take a look at the Jackson nfielder, Trucks 2 words and Kuenn Bats/Throws the other high priced rare variations in the set.

So what is this coin lot that appears to be in pretty good condition worth ? I'll let you determine that !
As for me I say Congratulations Armour Al......................