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Posted By: shane

There is no doubt that there are old time collectors still sitting on a bunch of high end raw material. I don't think many of those collections include a run of Wilsons. I have known two large collection go to auctions over the past three years and neither one of them had a complete set. I have a friend of one of the guys who consigned $2M to Mastro and he sold me his Wilsons (8 of 20) before Mastro came over to his home. Neither guy had a complete set.
I have tried making this set for many years along with a couple of other collectors here on the board. Every year we meet up at the National to find very little on the floor except for 707's booth.
The other issue about this set that turns big collectors away from the Wilsons is that they can't make the set in all high grade. An example would be Jim Crandell, he would not dump $30,000 into a set of all PSa 5/6/7's. His goal is to have all PSA 8's which is almost impossible to achieve.