No HOF for Dahlen, Price Drop?

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Originally Posted by GregMitch34

That sounds like guess work--that it's vastly more scarce. Self-fulfilling wish if you happen to own the Brooklyns? So many cards, of all grades, are graded today that this sounds like an outmoded argument. The difference in numbers between them is very modest at PSA, a little more at SGC but still far from sustaining the massive value gap. I predict the gap will shrink quite a bit. It's just too easy to get a Brooklyn at eBay or AHs.

I'm not sure the pop reports really indicate that it's overpriced.

Currently, there are about 50% of the O'Hara and Demmitt St. Louis variations (PSA) as there are of their New York versions. The Dahlen Brooklyn accounts for about 80% of the Boston version.

The O'Hara/Demmitt STLs are about 40X-50X over their NY versions (You can get a PSA 1 NY of those cards for about $20-$25 as opposed to about $900-$1,000 for the STL in PSA 1).

Conversely, the Dahlen has only about a markup of what, 10X? Obviously the O'Hara/Demmitt STLs are significantly rarer. But the premium for those is far greater than the pop reports suggest they should be when you compare then with the Dahlen pop reports.