Hardest prewar sets that have been completed

[Baseball Rarities]

Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards

We auctioned 19/23 T227 Miner's extras and while two of them are brutally tough it's gotta be doable.

Aren't all 24 cards available with the Miners Extra backs?

[Rhotchkiss]

T208 Firesides are tuff.

Has anyone ever completed an entire 1908 Rose Co. PC set?

[oldjudge]

Thanks guys! BTW, I would not have been able to finish the Lone Jack set without Joe's help.

[Rhotchkiss]

Jay, can you post a few pics of the Lone Jacks? I don’t even know what they look like. Oh, and congrats! Sounds like a hell of an accomplishment, especially if they are all pre-1900

[Baseball Rarities]

Originally Posted by Rhotchkiss

Has anyone ever completed an entire 1908 Rose Co. PC set?

No, no one has every completed the set or even come that close. There are 192 cards in the "basic" Major League set - 12 players for each of the 16 teams. There are six cards that we have never even seen images of, but have been checklisted.

The last that I checked, there are 8 cards that have a pop of 0 in the combined SGC and PSA pop reports, another 57 that have a combined pop of 1 and 60 with a pop of 2. I am sure that there are still a lot of raw Rose Co. postcards out there, but that will still give you a perspective on how tough some of the "commons" are to find. It only makes sense that consumers gravitated towards the big stars of the day such as Wagner and Cobb when they picked out their souvenirs as compared to the lesser known players.

There is a 14 card subset of player from the Scranton Miner of the New York State League, including Moonlight Graham. There is one complete set of these known. Several of the cards from this set have only a single known example in the combined SGC and PSA pop reports.

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Originally Posted by Baseball Rarities

Aren't all 24 cards available with the Miners Extra backs?

Actually only 23 in ME back. Niether Brown nor Rogers (the two short prints) have been found in ME.

[Baseball Rarities]

Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards

Actually only 23 in ME back. Niether Brown nor Rogers (the two short prints) have been found in ME.

OK, then wouldn't that mean that only 22 are available with the Miners Extra back? There are only 24 in the set, right?

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

sorry, you are correct

[oldjudge]

Ryan—Here’s a nice one and the set as a composite. They have the same images as the Old Judge Browns Champ set.

[Rhotchkiss]

Thanks Jay. Good looking cards. I like how that display has the heads all turning to the manager. Good stuff

[rjackson44]

Texas tommys🤔🤔

[oldjudge]

Originally Posted by Rhotchkiss

Thanks Jay. Good looking cards. I like how that display has the heads all turning to the manager. Good stuff

Ryan--The fellow at the center of the composite is Chris Von der Ahe, the team owner and a possible future HOFer.