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Posted By: Jay Miller

Interesting how strings evolve. Barry's mention of N173s got me thinking. I can't think of a more visually appealing, undervalued 19th century set. Given where card prices have gone in the last year I would think that these rarities (as Lew Lipset pointed out so beautifully in his Encyclopedia of Baseball Cards, every N173 is rarer than the T206 Wagner) would be rocketing upward in price. I guess the issue is that they rarely ever appear on Ebay or even in the major auctions. The five figure price for the N173 Whitney with Dog may look like a bargain in the future.