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Posted By: Bill Cornell

I agree - the Johnson card and several others are much more difficult than the rest. Johnson's has a "15" written at the bottom; Lipset maintains in his "T" book that any with "12" to "15" are rarer (16 out of 52), which seems correct from what I've seen. He thought then (and still does, judging from the descriptions in his last auction) that the Lelivelt and Austin cards are the most difficult, but they're probably not harder than the others. Of course, Lipset relied on anecdotal evidence to determine scarcity...