1914 Cracker Jack set

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Posted By: JimB

Clearly everybody who is estimating what the set would bring if broken up is speculating. There is no referrence point. What drives up prices on a lot of these high grade old cards is when there are competing people trying to complete sets in high grade or other factors. For example, there are a number of people attempting to assemble high grade T206 sets and they compete for the high grade cards they want. There are not a lot of people attempting to put together a highgrade 14 set because it is next to impossible. Thus, while the HOFs would certainly generate a lot of interest, I doubt the commons would bring as much as people are fantacising about. Somebody pulled the # $500K for the Jackson out of hat, and people seem to have jumped on the bandwagon. It is possible that it would generate that much, but my estimate would be closer to $200K. We probably will never know, and I personally hope we won't because I think that set should remain as a set and not be broken up.
JimB