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David Posesthanks for posting your study, scott.
i'm wondering if anybody has a guess as to the total population of these cards (not just what psa says, but raw and slabbed).
while it is reasonable to assume that the more popular stars of the time were held more often than unpopular players, what's the keep/discard ratio of the average smoker? did one smoker keep a dutch jordan for every 20 who kept a cobb? 200?
does anybody care to guess how many exist of any given southern league player today?
if ellam appeared on ebay at a ratio more than 2:1 to foley white, is it reasonable to assume that for every ellam floating around there are 2.3 whites?
what are the chances that someone in roanoke hoarded a ton of shaughnessy cards and he is about to croak and his great grandson is a methamphetamine addict waiting to inherit the hoard and stick it on ebay as one big lot to avoid multiple placement fees and thus maximize funding for his nefarious habit?
what would happen if one person owned, say, 10 arch persons? how much of the persons market would that represent?
will prices for southern leaguers continue to go up even though everybody wants one and nobody ever heard of most of these guys?
obviously scott's list is based on a serious study and i am not trying to undermine it in any way- just trying to keep the conversation about relative scarcity going.
d