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Fast Facts
Year(s) Issued: 1920
Set Designation: W522
Number Cards: 20
Card Size: 1-3/8" x 2-1/4"
Common Card Value (Good Condition): $20
Scarcity Rating: (1 to 10, 10 scarcest): 7
W522 Strip Card Set
Keys For Collectors
What Does It Cost To Build A W522 Strip Card Set
Some of the early pre-war strip card issues have fairly limited issues, and the W522 set is no exception, as PSA has graded less than 100 cards across the entire set.
Still with a little bit of patience (and luck) collectors can often find ungraded cards or even ungraded lots available for sale.
On average, commons from the W522 set in ungraded condition, can be found for around $25 to $30. To get this pricing, collectors may have to engage in some haggling, but it can be done.
Of the twenty cards in the set, there are seven HOF player cards: Mathewson, Ruth, Speaker, Bancroft, Wheat, Coveleski and George Kelly. This leaves us with thirteen common cards, some however are of players that technically aren't 'commons', and may command more of a premium, but in general let's go with that for now.
Thirteen commons in ungraded condition could cost on average $30 x 13 = $390.

W522 Pol Perritt
The most expensive card in the W522 set is of course the Babe Ruth card, which is not terribly easy to find, and on average sells for a minimum $3000. Thus, the Ruth card will eat most of the W522 set budget.

Of the other six HOF cards, the Mathewson and Speaker I would consider to be 'Tier 2' from a cost perspective, roughly $500 or more each. The other four cards could be found for around $100 each.
Thus, in total, a collector can build an ungraded W522 set for roughly $4800.
W522 Cards for Sale on eBay
1920 W522 Set-Break # 46 Goldie Rapp LOW GRADE (crease) *GMCARDS*
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1920 W522 Set-Break # 45 Pol Perritt LOW GRADE (crease) *GMCARDS*
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1920 W522 Set-Break # 44 Otto Miller LOW GRADE (crease) *GMCARDS*
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1920 W522 Set-Break # 36 Art Fletcher LOW GRADE (crease) *GMCARDS*
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1920 W522 Set-Break # 35 Wilbur Cooper LOW GRADE (crease) *GMCARDS*
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1920 W522 Set-Break # 33 Zach Wheat LOW GRADE (crease) *GMCARDS*
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1920 W522 Babe Ruth PSA A (Authentic) New York YANKEES HOF
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1920 W522 Baseball Strip Card #45 Pol Perritt New York Giants
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Christy Mathewson 1920 W522 #39 SGC Authentic HOF Hand Cut NY Giants (814-2)
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1920 W522 OTTO MILLER #44 Good
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1920 W522 GOLDIE RAPP #45 Good+ Nice Color
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GEORGE KELLY (HOF) 1920 W522 HAND CUT PSA 1 (PR) CARD #43 NEW YORK GIANTS
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1920 W522 BENNY KAUF 31 GOOD STRIP CARD SGC 2 BASEBALL NEW YORK GIANTS
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1920 W522 #50 Zach Wheat PSA 3 Brooklyn Robins HOF
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1920 W522 #48 Babe Ruth PSA Authentic New York Yankees HOF
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1920 W522 Mike Gonzalez #34 Card PSA Authentic
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1920 W522 PHIL DOUGLAS #49 Good+
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1920 W522 POL PERRITT #45 VG
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1920 W522 MIKE GONZALES #42 Poor
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1920 W522 LARRY DOYLE #38 Good
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