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Posted By: Jay Miller

I think Jim makes an excellent point. Most post war sets, putting money aside for a second, are relatively easy to complete. If a collector wants a challenge, and after all isn't the joy of collecting the hunt, then the only challenge is in putting together a high grade set. This leads into the registry set mentality. Many pre war sets are extremely difficult to complete. For those sets there is no need to construct additional hurdles to differentiate amongst collections; the distance along the path to completion is the mark on the measuring stick. There are certainly exceptions to this, eg T206, but I think for the most part that the generalization is true. That is one of the reasons, for example, that none of the major Old Judge collections are slabbed/registered.