Posted By:
Brian McQueen
Gil,
Nice idea for a thread...
There are a lot of sets out there that are of interest to collectors, yet many don't want to spend the time and money to collect an entire issue. So they break it off into a smaller niche set or "subset" so that they'll have something more reasonable to aim for while still being able to enjoy the set as a whole.
I've done this in several cases. Basically when a set appeals to me, but there's either too many cards in the set to go after (I'm not all that patient of an individual to be honest) or the cards are just too expensive that I can't go after more than just a few. Here's a few examples of Niche sets I've gone after in the past....
Old Judge/t206 - Kansas City players
e107 Type 2s
m116s with bluebackgrounds (24 total)
t205 minor leaguers (unique appearence from the regular cards...12 total)
t210 first series
t209 first series
t209-2 ....in this case, I went looking for ANY cards from the set and when I got a few, I took note of what team the player on the card was from and then attempted to finish off that particular team.