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Originally Posted by Pat R
I could have posted this in one of the hobby pet peeves thread but because it comes up many times every year on here I thought it would be better to start a thread about it.
If you're comparing a cards scarcity to the T206 Wagner the particular cards scarcity like the Wagner should be based on that particular cards scarcity in the set that it's in for the true scarcity of that card.
Here are the numbers on a few that are often mentioned as scarcer than the Wagner plus a couple of recently mentioned comparisons. I only used the totals of the PSA and SGC pop reports because although it's not 100% accurate it's the most accurate way to get some kind of comparison.
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Great points Pat, and definitely some interesting and neat info.
And if you want to take that a little further and with a slightly different tangent to it, if you could then somehow also determine and factor in how many people are actually interested in and actively collecting each of those different sets and/or particular player or card, I think you'd see some even more dramatic results. T206 cards are arguably the most widely collected and sought after pre-war set/cards there is. If you could somehow quantify that difference between T206 cards/set, and the other cards/sets on your list, I think the differences would be even more striking.
Not sure how you could even begin to quantify what I'll call the demand factor, for lack of a better term, though. And even if you could, then not sure how one would possibly factor it in with what you've already come up with. Maybe we could somehow base that demand factor on card prices, since price is typically a function of supply and demand. You've already come up with some supply figures, and we can look up prices, now just have to solve for demand.
Am probably overthinking it though. And sorry, not trying to take away from your thread, but add to it somehow. And there are a lot more cards that are equally, if not possibly more so, scarcer than a lot of those on your short list.