1933 V353 World Wide Gum

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Posted By: warshawlaw

What's the comparative rarity between this set and the 1933 Goudey? Is there a reliable "rule of thumb" pricing multiple for one versus the other?

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Posted By: cmoking

PSA pop reports show:

1933 Goudey: average of 138 graded per card
1933 WWG : average of 9 graded per card

Neither PSA nor SGC breaks down the cards based on the two different backs so it is tough to tell if one is rarer than the other. In general, it feels the two different backs are about equal.

Pricing:
It feels like the 1933 WWG pricing is more variable. In general, I think they go for around 50% to 100% of their Goudey counterpart. That's a wide range, but that also shows how variable pricing can be.

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Posted By: John Harrell

The rule of thumb that I've consistently heard over the last 15 years or so is that the WWG sets (both 33 and 34) are 15 to 20 times rarer than the regular Goudey sets. The 33 set, of course comes in both French/English and English only backs. The English only backs are scarcer than the FR/Eng backs with the high number Eng only being significantly scarcer. Apparently Canadians didn't go for the Eng only backs and so many fewer were distributed, which would be why the 34 set appears only in Fr/Eng. I think the difference in popularity has to do with the Canadian sets being less well known and people feeling that one set of Goudeys should suffice.

John