Pricing is not based on "pop" alone. Esoteric regionals and food box cards have never enjoyed the wide appeal and draw as have regular issue cards. A lot of buyers have no idea of their existence or what their "pop" is. Many people as the poster mentioned before, new or old get swept up in collecting what everyone else does by and large.
I type this as a collector of Bazookas and Hostess cards and other regional issues. They have long had appeal for me as they are unusual and not everyone has one. Typically they have different photos.
I'd take a VG '56 Kahn's Frank Robinson over a PSA8 1957 Topps all day.
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