Hardest prewar sets that have been completed

[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.