Are high numbers really all that rare?

[the 'stache]

I think it's a combination of scarcity and condition driving the price.

If you look at the 1952 Topps set, there's an interesting tidbit about the high number series cards.

From Cardboard Connection:

Folklore and Legends
No one but the Yankees' scouting department could foresee just what a legendary figure "The Mick" would become, not even the set's architect, Sy Berger. It's been long said that Berger, stuck with several unsold pallets of high-numbered series cases, unceremoniously dumped the cards into the Hudson River with a forklift. This disturbing fact haunts collectors to this day, knowing that one of the most valuable baseball cards ever made likely has several dozen examples entombed in a watery grave.

Hmm.

Anybody got a scuba set, and a HASMAT suit I can borrow?

[7nohitter]

Originally Posted by the 'stache

I think it's a combination of scarcity and condition driving the price.

If you look at the 1952 Topps set, there's an interesting tidbit about the high number series cards.

From Cardboard Connection:



Hmm.

Anybody got a scuba set, and a HASMAT suit I can borrow?

Speaking of the legend of '52 Topps at the bottom of the river...has anyone ever dived down to look for them? Obviously, cardboard in water erodes pretty quickly, but if these were cases and cases of the stuff, shouldn't something still be down there? Maybe even the pallets?

[ALR-bishop]

Originally Posted by 7nohitter

Speaking of the legend of '52 Topps at the bottom of the river...has anyone ever dived down to look for them? Obviously, cardboard in water erodes pretty quickly, but if these were cases and cases of the stuff, shouldn't something still be down there? Maybe even the pallets?

Andrew--What do you think a PSA certified pallet would bring ?