Where are all the 1914 cracker jacks ?
 

Maybe it’s just me, but it seems that a few years ago there were set breaks of 1914 cracker jacks once or twice a year. And there was always healthy selection of individual cards auctioned off.

In the past year or two it seems like these have just about dried up. Are there just more set collectors who are buying and holding? Anybody have any insight on this?

In my uneducated opinion and sadly they have been bought up and are being held. Many that bought before the COVID spike so the huge price jumps and sold and took profit and then those that bought are holding as investors and some potentially as collectors. The investors are holding because the prices have not risen enough(and in some case might have price decreases) so they do not want to sell for a loss

Even the 1915's have not gotten tough because as the supply of 1914 dried up the demand went to the 1915's

As you know, 1914 cracker jacks are relatively scarce. PSA has graded a total of 5,186 and SGC shows a total of 3,162 graded. The set is 144 cards. Thus, there is, on average, 58 PSA/SGC graded examples of each card (of course some are more common/scarce than others). There are some BVG, and of course cross-overs not removed from pop reports, and raw examples, etc. But the point is, they are relatively rare.

At the same time, I think the set’s popularity has really picked up in the past few years. Indeed, I assembled/bought a set last year, which I plan to hold. Low supply + increasing demand = scarcity. I haven’t written anything the OP doesn’t already know.

So, to answer the original question - they have been snapped up (by set builders, collectors, investors… who cares) and very few are being resold. I expect that could change as the economy continues to crater, so hold tight. They likely a’coming

PS- maybe move this to main page and out of BST section?