View Full Version : when was this e90-1 Duffy card marked up? "RARE"
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10-15-2008, 07:50 PM
Posted By: <b>Scott Fandango</b><p>a recent pick up, i think the card shows very well...an ultra "toughie" from the E90-1 American Caramel set...<br /><br />Interesting thing is the Mark on the back....someone wrote "RARE" in pencil....<br /><br />Any ideas when this would have been done?<br /><br />would a 1970's collector mark his cards based on scarcity with a pencil?<br /><br />Or was this done by the original collector of this card who may have known something about this set, way before his time?<br /><br />Any thoughs or scans of similar cards are appreciated!<br /><br /><img src="http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj227/fandango231/duffy.jpg"><br /><img src="http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj227/fandango231/duffybackrare.jpg">
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10-16-2008, 03:55 AM
Posted By: <b>Dan Koteles</b><p>Based on that E, it looks like an old timer wrote it.
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10-17-2008, 07:07 PM
Posted By: <b>Scott Fandango</b><p>how did an "old timer" or original owner, know it was rare?<br /><br />that is the $27,000 question....
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10-17-2008, 07:13 PM
Posted By: <b>Dan Koteles</b><p>after all the Wonka caramel bars , there were only 17 Duffy's placed in them and it was the "GOLDEN TICKET" send in offer that allowed collectors to get a Duffy. That will be 27k please !
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10-17-2008, 07:25 PM
Posted By: <b>Jeremy Wagoner</b><p>Collectors like Burdick sometimes wrote on the back of their cards. This could be a possibility. Sometime in the 40s-fifties?
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10-17-2008, 07:59 PM
Posted By: <b>fkw</b><p>At least it wasnt trimmed to fit an early Tobacco card page like many cards were in the 1970s.<br /><br />Not uncommon for vintage cards to have pencil notes on the back, but its usually the ACC # that is written.<br /><br />I would guess its 1960-70s. The tougher E90-1 cards were known back then.
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10-17-2008, 08:41 PM
Posted By: <b>Dan Koteles</b><p>I do think it is possible for someone to have hoarded these like I did my 3-d's in 70-74. Whatever checklist there was back then and maybe after many many dupes he landed one. Will we really know?
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10-17-2008, 11:40 PM
Posted By: <b>Troy Kirk</b><p>I would bet it was written in the 1980s after Lew Lipset identified the rare cards in that set in his writings.
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10-18-2008, 06:32 AM
Posted By: <b>Scott Fandango</b><p>i dont think it was written on during this period, because i collected in the 70's and the only card we wrote on was the checklist....we knew not to mark up the cards....<br /><br />also, if someone was reading a detailed book/price guide about cards, they knew some may be valuable, so why would they mark them up and deface them?<br /><br />Jefferson glued most of his cards into the binders at the MET, so he may have been inclined to also write on the back....<br /><br />does anyone have a card with the provenance to link it to Jefferson himself?