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Originally Posted by oldjudge
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.
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I agree that the fact that some of the cards are unique makes the set difficult to collect, and while SGC has a set registry, people aren't always competing on it as much as showing their cards.
Nevertheless, the original demand for high-grade cards stems not from a desire to win a competition, but from the inherent beauty of a well-preserved collectible itself (almost forgotten now).
I, for one, find the high grade OJ's with bold images to be very visually appealing. That they survived for so long, are so old and so beautiful, yet so difficult to find, makes me truly appreciate them.