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Tim NewcombI put together a full C46 set from scratch, starting in maybe 2003 and finishing this spring with a flurry on ebay. The Taylor card cost me more than any other, but I wouldn't call it any scarcer than the rest, just higher in demand. I didn't get the sense that any individual cards were less (or more) plentiful than any other-- it's just a matter of higher demand for Gandil, the 2 HOFers, Taylor, etc.
My other conclusion is that somewhere around 2005, the overall supply of this set shrank dramatically and the prices shot up. In 2004 I bought a ton on ebay for less than $10 each-- not no more.
I wonder if someday the collecting community will look back to the 2004-2007 period as being comparable to the point in the mid-1980s when prices took a quantum leap. Or maybe we're in a perpetual boom???
Tim