please allow me to ramble
I believe it could generate more if sold as a set; of course, it seems likely the Ruth rookie would be carved out so that the buyer would be getting something less than a complete set anyway.
Hard to say for sure because not all of the key cards are shown, but it really isn't that tough to find mid to high-grade blank backs, meaning grades 5-7 with occasional 8s, so breaking it up doesn't really seem to offer a chance for set fillers or even player collectors to upgrade significantly--here the overall set avg is 5.3. Seems to me that someone wanting to avoid the time and trouble of assembling a set would be interested, but that the break-up value is not great.
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