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David SmithI own a Cameo Pepsin pin that was uncatalogued at the time I bought it 10 years ago. I never told anybody about it but it is now in the Big Book (Standard Catalog) so another one must have been found. IT is valued the same as all the other commons.
An even better example is the Star Player Candy card of Buddy Myer. I have owned it for over 10 years and I just brought it to daylight, as a new addition to the set, a couple of years ago. Here is a card that is a new addition to a scarce set and the player is Jewish to top things off. But when you look in the price guide, he is valued just the same as all the other commons.
My guess is that the determining factor on valuing an uncatalogued card is what it eventually sells for. If uncatalogued cards sell privately (or never sell), then the people who make up the price guides have nothing to base their values on and have to use similiar cards as a guide.
Now if I ever decide to have the Meyer card graded and then consign it to a MAJOR auction house and it sells for more than a common card, the people who produce the price guides could then say that the ONLY known copy of this card sold for X amount. Just like Leon's Fans cigaretter card. There is no value listed in the price guides but I am sure that when (if) it ever sells publicly, then a special notation will be put in the guides.
Note to Leon and others -- I am NOT saying my Buddy Myer card is as significant to the hobby as the Fans cigarette cards, I was just using that as an example.
David