Toughest sets? (50 cards or less)

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Posted By: <b>robert a</b><p>Opinions on toughest e, d, n, and t sets with 50 or less cards.<br />Feel free to include tough sets from m, w, etc.<br /><br />I'll throw a couple out there.<br /><br />1. e104-3<br />2. t208<br />3. d380<br />4. n338-1

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Posted By: <b>Seth B.</b><p>T209-I !!!<br /><br /><br />Argh!!!

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Posted By: <b>Griffin's</b><p>F-unc Tango Eggs. <br />No one can even seem to agree on how many cards are in the set, let alone possess them all.<br /> Don't know the ACC number for Allegheny's, but that would have to be on there.<br />

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Posted By: <b>Steve M.</b><p>W601 Sporting Life Postcard set of 16 is real tough. I've been looking for ten years for the Detroit to complete my set. (I do however know that it exists and who has one and have been assured that I'm in the Will. Right, Dan?) <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14><br /><br />The Ullman postcard set of 12 likewise is extremely tough.

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Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>1. e221/e222<br />2. T208/T231<br />3. d380/D355<br />4. N690 Four Base Hits<br /><br />I gave a few scenarios as these are really tough....<br />

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Posted By: <b>Zach Rice</b><p>Here are a few more extremely difficult sets with under 50 cards:<br /><br />E224-2 Texas Tommy<br />F-Unc Voskamp's Coffee<br />N370 Lone Jack Cigarettes

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Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>There are probably dozens of sets that nobody has ever completed, and Leon's four choices are near the top.<br /><br />Try to complete the three card Red Stocking cigar set. You couldn't get all three if you lived to a hundred.

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Posted By: <b>Steve M.</b><p>Allegheny is a set of 112, is unique, was broken up long ago. I would say that it would be virtually impossible to put it back together.

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Posted By: <b>Ted Zanidakis</b><p>19th Century......<br /><br />N162 Goodwin's<br />N184 Kimball's<br />N300 Mayo<br />N370 Lone Jack<br /><br />pre-WWI......<br /><br />E-105 Mello-Mints<br />T216 Kotton, Mino, Virginia Extra<br /><br />pre-WWII......<br /><br />R328 US Caramel<br /><br />post-WWII<br /><br />1949 Bowman PCL<br /><br /><br />TED Z<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />

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Posted By: <b>Joe D.</b><p>This set deserves mention in this thread:<br /><br />1910 Orange Borders<br /><br /><br />Not sure if many people have more than one of the player cards... let alone the whole set.<br />

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Posted By: <b>Bruce Babcock</b><p>E271 Darby Chocolates. A certain dealer claimed, about 10-15 years ago, that two complete sets exist. Dennis Purdy of VCBC offered, I believe, $1000 to anyone who could prove they owned a complete set. He still has the $1000.

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Posted By: <b>JimB</b><p>N167<br />JimB

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Posted By: <b>fkw</b><p>Of the sets that have cards that are numbered, where we know how many make up a set.<br /><br />The Holland Ice Cream, Maple Crispette, Crescent Ice Cream, US Caramel, and other similar sets will be the toughest. There can only be 1-3 of each set made since they all have a short print card that is only known to exist with 1-3 examples.

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Posted By: <b>Steve M.</b><p>Did you notice that your card is for sale on ebay?

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Posted By: <b>fkw</b><p>Which one?

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Posted By: <b>Steve M.</b><p><a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/RARE-Baseball-VICTORIAN-TRADE-CARD-CALRINDA-IOWA_W0QQitemZ290080061646QQihZ019QQcategoryZ802QQ rdZ1QQcmdZViewItem" target="_new" rel="nofollow">http://cgi.ebay.com/RARE-Baseball-VICTORIAN-TRADE-CARD-CALRINDA-IOWA_W0QQitemZ290080061646QQihZ019QQcategoryZ802QQ rdZ1QQcmdZViewItem</a>

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Posted By: <b>fkw</b><p>Oh ya <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14><br /><br /><br />Thats cool, it is actually a fairly scarce card. Ive only seen maybe 4 of them over the years.

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Posted By: <b>Anonymous</b><p>Here's one:<br /><br /> Schapira Brothers (not the Babe Ruth set). It is the set that has the Black and White pictures of the players. I will post examples in another post on this board.

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Posted By: <b>Jay</b><p>Large Gypsy Queen set of 9<br />

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Posted By: <b>Paul</b><p>E125 has got to be just about impossible, but according to Old Cardboard, someone has come fairly close.

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Posted By: <b>warshawlaw</b><p>1918 Zeenuts<br />Home Run Kisses<br />1928 Exhibit PCL<br />1935 Pebble Beach

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Posted By: <b>Dylan</b><p>I know there's a few more then 50 cards but since were mentioning really tough sets, does it really get any tougher then G & B Gum? Its not a huge set, less then 100 known, but these are very scarce. <br />Edited to add Alpha engraving, and any of other super scarce cabinets

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Posted By: <b>Bob</b><p>Baltimore News set (the blue background E94 wannabes), forget the card designation.<br />D311s although I'm not that sure how many are in the set, I just know I only have about half of them and haven't progressed any in the last year.<br />I also want to throw in the 1911 Zeenut set because of the Bohen card.

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Posted By: <b>Steve M.</b><p>is tough but not impossible. There are 72 cards, 12 from each of the six teams.