Likelyhood of New Cards Being Discovered

[canjond]

Although uncommon, I believe new players can be discovered. I'd consider the Tango Cobb discovery earlier this year as a new find. Even though one was rumored to exist, noone had ever seen it before.

[egbeachley]

I predict the T231 Fan set will double in size in the next 20 years. If someone finds a collection from a smoker of that brand, it may increase 100-fold.

Wasn't the Pirates set a recent addition?

[Leon]

Originally Posted by egbeachley

I predict the T231 Fan set will double in size in the next 20 years. If someone finds a collection from a smoker of that brand, it may increase 100-fold.

Wasn't the Pirates set a recent addition?

Depending on how you count them this has already happened when John Rumirez showed his T231 specimen recently. Many of us knew about it for years as John had told us, but it had not been seen. I don't know about 100x more but I would expect more to be found...as well as most other very rare types. I have always said there is way more unknown to the hobby than most believe. There will be attic finds for the next 100+ yrs. AS far as new players added to well known and popular sets, I believe those will be very rare occurrences.

ps...the recent Pirates set is sort of in this realm too...

[barrysloate]

It will vary from set to set.

For example, you won't find a new player in E93, E94, E95, or E98. Ever.

It would be virtually impossible to find a new player in T205 or T206, although those eight T206 proofs were found with entirely unknown players. But if you're hoping to find a T205 Lajoie, forget it.

In a set like N172, maybe a new California League player could be found, and new poses are likely, but a new major leaguer would be nearly impossible.


But for some sets that we don't know a whole lot about, such a T231, as well as other somewhat obscure issues, new players would be expected.

[scmavl]

I, like Jon, was thinking of the Tango Eggs Cobb. I doubt a new T206 will be showing up, but on some of the more obscure sets? Sure.

[Exhibitman]

New stuff surfaces regularly in a wide variety of card collecting arenas. I'd be surprised to see a new subject in a well established mainstream set (though perhaps not a back-front combo in T cards, as that area still isn't completely proven yet), but definitely not in an issue where there "should" be more cards.

I find new boxing cards all the time. Latest is this Jack Dempsey from Cuba:

[rhettyeakley]

Still not well understood, the 1939 R-Uncataloged set (that is the tentative name I have given them) has been known about by a few but no more than 15-20 examples of the set are known to exist as of now (not to say that won't increase once it finally gets cataloged and people know what they have sitting in their "misc" box.)

[E93]

Originally Posted by egbeachley

Wasn't the Pirates set a recent addition?

If my memory serves me (which it often does not) the Pirate set that sold a few years ago was the basis on which the original checklist was made. It was not a set of new discoveries or completely new group to the hobby, though since the checklist was made (1970s?) a few new additions were made and included in that set including a Matty/dark cap.

JimB

[Bicem]

D380 Joss is relatively new to the hobby, and a great card.

[steve B]

In the more obscure/rare sets there are going to be new discoveries. And once outside of the sports field there are a great number of unknown cards. many t card sets haven't been checklisted well at all, And cards from outside the US aside from the UK and Germany often aren't checklisted. Possibly they aren't well cataloged either, but I don't have a world card index yet

Steve B

[JLange]

Some collectors view newspaper cutout sets as "cards," while others probably never will. There are a number of additions to the catalog that can be made in this area of collecting, as I'm sure other areas could benefit with additional collector interest. This set may have been known to others for quite some time but was only recently catalogued in the last several years.

[E93]

THere were also the really cool popcorn cards that included a Ruth and a few other HOFs that were discovered a few years ago.
JimB