Cy--I agree with everything you say. I think the major roadblock against developing Old Judge registry competition is that so many of the players are extremely hard/virtually impossible to find. The registry would have no one with anywhere near a complete set. Also, most of the Old Judge collectors who use TPGs tend to use SGC, not PSA. SGC has yet to develop meaningful registry competition, at least on the scale of PSA. This also hampers the registry premium affecting Old Judge cards. I think the last person to try to assemble a representative Old Judge registry set was Alan Sassoon. He had an SGC graded set with, if I remember correctly, over 470 different players. He sold his set at auction many years ago. Today, to even duplicate what Alan achieved would be very difficult.
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