R309-2 Scarcity reasons?

[thatkidfromjerrymaguire]

As I've been slowly putting together a base 1935 Goudey set (the 4 in 1 cards), I thought it might be fun to also add the 1935 Goudey black and white premium set (R309-2) to complement it. I figured that would be relatively easy and fairly inexpensive because Goudey black and white premiums seem to be plentiful on ebay.

It didn't take me long to realize that MOST sets of the Goudey premiums are plentiful. But not R309-2.

So I decided that I would ignore condition and just try to pick up ONE of them just so I had an example...and I was finally able to add this beat up Wally Berger recently.

But the rest of the set does not come up for sale much, and when they do, if they are in reasonably good condition, they sell for a premium.

Any thoughts as to why those are harder to come by? My best theory is that it appears that 1935 Goudey overall was not very popular back in 1935 (as there seems to be less of them available on ebay compared to 1933 and 1934) so less kids amassed the 10 wrappers per picture to trade in for them. Is it really that simple, or is there some other reason why R309-2 Goudey premiums are so scarce?

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