RARE MICKEY MANTLE ORIGINAL 8 YEARS OLD PHOTO YANKEES EARLIEST KNOWN PHOTO "HISTORICALLY IMPORTANT " Start Price USD 15,777.77 Current Price USD 15,777.77 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Tuesday, November 25, 2008 End Time Friday, December 05, 2008 Location EAST RUTHERFORD,NJ See more about 'RARE MICKEY MANTLE ORIGINAL 8 YEARS OLD PHOTO YANKEES' Description PHOTO, SIZE AND CONDITION PHOTO: SILVER GELATIN SEPIA-TONED PHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTO CARD.SIZE: 3 1/2" X 5.0"CONDITION: NR/MT. CRYSTAL CLEAR IMAGE IN MINT CONDITION. PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN IN 1939 AT THE MANTLE HOME LOCATED AT 319 SOUTH QUINCY STREET COMMERCE, OKLAHOMA. THE EARLIEST KNOWN FULL BODY PHOTOGRAPH OF THE GREAT MICKEY MANTLE AT THE AGE OF 8 YEARS OLD NOT IN THE MANTLE FAMILY ARCHIVES. MICKEY MANTLE AND HIS HORSE TONY. TONY CASTRO TELLS US FROM HIS NOVEL "MICKEY MANTLE - AMERICA'S PRODIGAL SON" THAT MICKEY "HAD A HORSE NAMED TONY, WHICH HE ROAD TO SCHOOL AND TIED TO A HITCHING POST AS HE (MANTLE) WOULD LATER RECALL" (CHAPTER 2- PAGE #23). THIS PHOTO WAS PURCHASED IN THE EARLY 90'S BY TOM CATAL FROM MANTLE'S SISTER BARBARA, FOR DISPLAY IN THE MICKEY MANTLE MUSEUM IN COOPERSTOWN, NEW YORK. ORIGINAL AND ONE OF A KIND MANTLE FAMILY PHOTOGRAPH. A PHOTO OF MANTLE, ALSO AROUND THE SAME TIME PERIOD SOLD BY LELANDS FROM THEIR JUNE 2008 CATALOG AUCTION FOR OVER $6,000.00. THE PHOTO IN THE LELAND'S CATALOG WAS DESCRIBED AS THE EARLIEST KNOWN -1939, AND WAS FROM A COIN OPERATED PHOTOGRAPH MACHINE (SEE PHOTO #2 ABOVE). OUR PHOTO IS AN ORIGINAL FIRST GENERATION SILVER GELATIN PHOTOGRAPH. LELAND'S PHOTO SHOWS MANTLE'S FACE ONLY. *** OUR PHOTO SHOWS MANTLE'S FULL BODY. THIS IS HISTORICALLY IMPORTANT IN OUR PHOTO WE SEE THE FULL BODY OF MICKEY MANTLE AS A 8 YEAR OLD BOY. THIS IS HOW HIS BODY LOOKED IN 1939 WHEN HE TOOK SWITCH-HITTING BATTING PRACTICE FROM HIS FATHER AND GRANDFATHER EVERY DAY AFTER SCHOOL. TWO YEARS LATER IN 1941 AT THE AGE OF TEN HE JOINED HIS FIRST ORGANIZED PEEWEE BASEBALL TEAM AT DOUTHAT, OKLAHOMA. AND, THE REST IS HISTORY. NOTEMANTLE IS WEARING THE EXACT COWBOY HAT IN THE LELAND PHOTO AND IN OUR MAGNIFICENT PHOTOGRAPH. WE BELIEVE THAT BOTH PHOTOS WERE TAKEN AROUND THE SAME TIME PERIOD OF 1939 AND MAKES THEM BOTH THE EARLIEST PHOTOGRAPHS KNOWN OF THE GREAT MICKEY MANTLE IN PRIVATE COLLECTIONS. ***WE WILL INCLUDE THE LELAND'S JUNE 2008 AUCTION CATALOG.*** ALSO INCLUDED IS A NUMBERED CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY WITH A MATCHING NUMBERED STICKER (WHICH IS AFFIXED TO THE BACK OF THIS PHOTO) FROM THE MICKEY MANTLE MUSEUM WHERE THIS MAGNIFICENT PHOTOGRAPH WAS DISPLAYED. Place a Bid!