{"id":2315,"date":"2021-12-02T20:39:54","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T01:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cardboredom.com\/?page_id=2315"},"modified":"2026-04-01T20:03:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:03:37","slug":"building-the-1993-finest-refractors-set","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cardboredom.com\/building-the-1993-finest-refractors-set\/","title":{"rendered":"Building the 1993 Finest Refractors Set"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Baseball card collecting changed dramatically in 1993. The end of the junk wax era arrived and with it came a set of cards that looked like nothing else. Completing a set of the elusive 1993 Finest Refractors once seemed impossible but is now the primary goal of my collecting interests. This page serves as a clearing house for information on both my set building progress, completed in 2024, and the underlying cards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a>
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Refractor Dashboard<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Below are several metrics showing the progression of the market for 1993 Finest Refractors. These graphs illustrate the developments of the past three years in quarterly increments. More than a dozen sources are regularly used to compile data describing the set and collector interest. Data is up to date through March 31, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Details on the methodology employed in this dashboard can be viewed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Did you come here looking for Phil Gold’s 93FinestRefractors.com? It no longer exists but an archived copy can be viewed at 1993 Finest Refractors (archive.org)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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