when is a set complete?

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Posted By: Jay Miller

Great question! It is interesting to differentiate between a complete set and a master set. For many vintage issues the words possible and impossible could be substituted in the previous sentence without loss of meaning. For some vintage sets there are layers of completeness. In Old Judge for example one might try to collect one of each non-California League Player(about 500 cards); one of each player(about 520 cards); one of each player by team(probably about 800-1000 cards); one of each pose(about 2425 cards); one of each pose by team(maybe 3500 cards); one of each pose, by team, by way of presenting name, position, team, by year--the master set(probably over 20,000 cards).