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Originally Posted by gunboat82
The high-end collectibles market is a fascinating place. The main selling point for these, as the listing reflects, is that they at one point shared a space with the Ruth card and another card for the guy who discovered Ruth.
I might want them all if I were already throwing cash at the Ruth and Dunn. But if I have a hankering for an old Ezra Midkiff, I'll pick up a T210-5 for less than 1/100 of the cost.
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You have a point. If Ruth wasn't in the set, I wonder what the interest in the other cards would be. It is a rare set for type collectors, but so is something like 1911 Western Playground Association, and common cards from that set do not go for 10K apiece. That may not be the best analogy, but I do think that if this was just the run of the mill rare type set, the individual cards would not go for as much.