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Originally Posted by raulus
Obviously the bidders are responsible for the price differential. But beyond that, digging into why these two cards have the relative values that they have in relation to one another is likely to remain a bit of an enigma.
But the 1962T selling for 25% more than the 1954T seems to follow the historical relationship between these two cards pretty closely. Whether the bidders had that in mind in the heat of the action is unlikely. But that’s definitely where the chips fell in the end. The invisible hand at work!
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And that factoid you are pointing out about more recent '62 versus '54 prices I find very interesting. I haven't really been actively collecting and paying attention to cards and prices from those sets for a decade or two now. But when I was, I always seemed to remember '54 cards going for more than comparable '62 cards. Maybe it also has to do with the higher grades for these particular cards, because as you speculated and pointed out, the full-bleed wood grain borders on the '62s do tend to highlight any edge and corner issues way more so than on cards with just white borders.
But then these are the kinds of conundrums that help to make, and keep, this hobby interesting to many of us. Good stuff!