1933 George C. Miller Ivy Andrews. Why the premium?

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Posted By: Brad Green

I just finished looking at the eBay auction for the PSA-graded, diamond-punched 1933 George C. Miller card of Ivy Andrews. The auction ended with a winning bid of $3500. According to the 2004 Edition of the SCD Standard Catalog, all of the cards in the set of 32 are valued at about $550 or $900 in NM condition -- with the exception of Dizzy Dean at $2000 and Ivy Andrews at $4000. Why does the card of Ivy Andrews command a premium? He's certainly a much lesser known player than some of the other players represented in the set (Lefty Grove and Jimmie Foxx, for example). Was this card short-printed? Is this the only known card of Ivy Andrews?

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