Mike Schmidt Collection

The non-glossy versions of this set are impossible to find. This particular card isn't even in the PSA Master Set Registry. In fact, and hear me out, are we even sure this set exists? I've never seen one non-glossy card listed graded or raw, and there are no recent completed items. PSA has record of a few sales from 2020. The glossy sets, on the other hand, seem to pop up regularly despite only 1,000 of them having been made. I bought what I thought was this base card from COMC. Turned out to be glossy. Among the non-glossy cards, two have never been graded by PSA, six are a pop 1, and four are a pop 2. Something isn't adding up here. Did PSA simply add the word “glossy” to the set at a later point, thus creating a supposed non-glossy set? And apologies to the current owners of these slabs, but I can think of at least four examples of PSA incorrectly identifying Schmidt cards, so it's not a meritless question. Or was the non-glossy finish produced in much lower quantities (which would seem odd since the numbered glossy set was apparently meant to be the premium version)? When did PSA last grade a non-glossy version? Has anyone ever seen a raw non-glossy card? And why is this the kind of shit that keeps me up at night? Damn. I’m a … I'm a dork.