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Lot # 429: 1956-1957 Mickey Mantle Bowling Alley Cigarette Lighter

Starting Bid: $300.00

Bids: 1 (Bid History)

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Item was in Auction "Winter 2006 Catalog",
which ran from 11/11/2006 12:00 AM to
12/15/2006 9:00 PM



Rare Wellington Balboa cigarette lighter advertising the "Mickey Mantle Bowling Center" in Dallas, a short-lived venture which began in 1956. If Mantle hit a home run, the bowler who bowled the most pins over their average that day would receive a baseball signed by Mantle. This EXMT lighter is wrapped with a brass advertising plate that reads "Mickey Mantle Bowling Center, 200 Exchange Park North, Dallas, Texas" on one side and "MM, FL7-6575" with facsimile "Best Wishes Mickey Mantle" and caricature bowling pins and telephone on the other.

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