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PeckI can think of a few reasons why collectors may not want to out an uncatalogued card. A fair amount of baseball material is made available to the market by antique dealers & other collectors with no background knowledge of baseball history. They grab a price guide and slap on a price. If they can't find it in a price guide they might just take a good guess. Some collectors would rather keep these guys guessing.
I think Barry hit on my second reason. I had a couple of minor uncatalogued cards (Esskay Orioles)in the early 1980's that I had added to the Beckett price guide. When the new Beckett came out they were assigned the same price as the rest of the common cards in the set. I thought the price assigned was low. I did sell them at a good multiple of the Beckett price in an SCD phone auction though.
If I were to find other unc. cards I would share the information with collectors but I think I would pass on providing copies or scans to the price guides.