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DaveWI had the advantage of having a collection forced on me. Consider it an inheritance. It had about 400 T206, mostly grade 3-5. The first card I ever bought was a duplicate of one that had a major crease. It was Cross, in a SGC 50 slab.
I've bought slabbed and raw, trimmed and stained. I bought cards I didn't need due to poor bookkeeping. Part of the game. I'm now missing only 6: Wagner, Plank, Magie, Doyle, and the two St. Louis rarities, Demmitt and O'Hara.
So, I consider myself done. "Filling" the holes with reprints doesn't cut it at all for me. Those cards are special, and will remain missing.
No other set has grabbed my interest, or money. I did spend a fair amount of money getting the missing 100+ from the set, and enjoyed it all the way.
Oddly enough, I've never sold any of my duplicates (there are about 100 from the original set), nor have I bought any other cards of any vintage.
It is a special set; it's not called the Monster for nothing.