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09-05-2010, 09:33 PM
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Without A Doubt..
...it's the N172 set.
I have no aspirations to even attempt to complete a set, but I can easily chase items in this set for the rest of my life and amuse myself for the next twenty+ years. There is just such breadth and depth that it is an enormously entertaining pursuit. 
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09-05-2010, 09:42 PM
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Why Not Go For The Best
There is not set rarer than Four Base Hits.
We only know of three collectors who have three more examples. Go for it. It will be the investment you ever made Bruce Dorskind America's Toughest Want List bdorskind@dorskindgroup.com
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09-05-2010, 10:18 PM
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19th century
The most doable set is the Allen & Ginter N-28, which have 10 baseball players with Anson and Kelly the most expensive but all are available and priced reasonably in mid-grade. I think the Goodwin N-162 are the most beautiful cards ever made and are also available frequently with 8 baseball players also with anson and kelly most expensive pieces.
The Old Judge can be collected as Hall of Famers and that makes it doable to collect a set from that massive series.
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09-05-2010, 10:43 PM
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For aesthetics, I think it is hard to beat the N28 set, though much of aesthetics is opinion. There are a lot of great sets and great looking 19th century cards. The others mentioned above are all awesome too. I have really enjoyed getting deeper into 19th century stuff in the last few years.
JimB   
Last edited by E93; 09-05-2010 at 10:44 PM.
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09-05-2010, 10:47 PM
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why not chase the impossible? I'm partial to the Just So set of Spiders. Five HOFers. All it would cost is pretty much all you have and two lifetimes, minimum. Still, gorgeous cards.
oops--4 Hofers; hardly worth it after all 
Last edited by nolemmings; 09-05-2010 at 10:51 PM.
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#7
09-06-2010, 08:15 AM
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Craig:
In the USA, postcards were all issued post-1900 Regarding Jeff's question, if you want a challenging set to possibly complete in your lifetime, I would go with the Buchner Gold Coin set first and then possibly the Mayo Cut Plug issue. Last edited by bcbgcbrcb; 09-06-2010 at 08:18 AM.
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