Anyone ever tried to Corner the Market on a Particular Card?

[Exhibitman]

True market cornering, no. Closest I came was trying to get every 1928 Exhibit of my cousin that came up for sale but I quit after 8:










I've let a few slip past since.

Since 1 of 1 specimens are pretty regular occurrences in boxing, soccer and other global sports, especially from foreign issuers, in a sense anyone who collects actively in those areas has some markets cornered. For example, this is the only known specimen of a 1904 Sporting Life cabinet from the Jeffries-Munroe title fight:



This is the only known example of the 1938 NX5 American Sweets Joe Louis:



I don't know of any other complete runs of these:



Can't be too many of these floating around, either:

[Fred]

John,

And I thought you had more Omar V rookies than that.....

[glchen]

There can't be more than 2-3 more of these out there, can there? More seriously, these were all slightly different color tints, which was why I got them.

[DeafSports]

I have about 110 of T-206 Luther "Dummy" Taylor. I don't think I will ever get tired of buying a beauty card.

Best,
Danny