The particulars surrounding this phenomenal production relic combine to yield insurmountable, awe-inspiring rarity. Somehow, this incredible piece escaped the factory in un-separated, intact form. And how amazing is fate, in her beneficence, to have allowed pristine 1951 Bowman high numbered baseball cards - and not just random subjects, but an array that includes one of the most sought-after and universally appreciated baseball cards of all time - to have eluded damage or misfortune through more than a half century of natural perils? Offered is an incredibly unique and displayable uncut sheet of thirty-six cards (the thirty-six 1951 Bowman card numbers present on the sheet are #253-288, inclusive)that was apparently intercepted and rescued just prior to being precisely cut for the insertion of the resultant pieces into card-packs. The amazing sheet contains four nine-card rows of fully-printed collectibles, and it is a dramatic item to view. Among the players on this fabulous sheet are Hall-of-Famers Mickey Mantle, Bucky Harris and Frank Frisch, as well as the popular figures of Jackie Jensen, Birdie Tebbetts, Luke Easter, Charlie Dressen, Carl Erskine and Danny Murtaugh. Breathtaking 'Mint' likenesses of the players are featured, with only a few touched by more-than-understandable corner wear and a close-cut lower edge border. This artifact measures approximately 18 1/2" X 12 1/2", and exhibits almost no surface wear or age-related toning. Images and back printing are clear and unblemished, and a tiny pinhole affects just one card (#285 Lipon). The sheet's overall display quality is minimally Excellent to Mint. The Mantle card itself, is a singular marvel of survivorship! Its position as the third card from the top on the left side has effectively insulated the item's pristine aesthetics, keeping them totally immune from deleterious circumstances. #253's fortuitous top-edge cut left it poised to assume ideal centering if, of course, it had been excised as once anticipated. The blue-and-white sky in the illustration's background betrays no trace of printing inconsistencies (indeed, there are none anywhere on this sheet) and the slugger's painted image is bright and distraction-free. This is a sublime, exemplary Mantle card viewed "in the wild", just as it would have been observed by Bowman employees on the few shifts tasked with manufacturing the issue's final series. A truly unique relic, this is the ultimate piece of trading card memorabilia referencing an idolized baseball figure. This remarkable sheet shares an important attribute with its most prominent subject in that it too, is utterly without peer in the hobby!