E 90-1 The Caramel Monster

[familytoad]

I’m the wrong guy to try and compile and record the progress of anyone’s set since I can barely be counted on to count my own...

But I found myself making good progress on the Caramel Monster. Very little recent postings can be found on this site, but there are a few excellent older posts describing the “Toughies” and pop reports etc.

Anyway after a couple good transactions with Brian McQ and Cory W, I find myself at 76.

I have a lot of the HOFERS and TOUGHIES, so these 76 aren’t just the easiest ones. Past threads have indicated that most collectors stall about 90-100 cards, seems like there are 120 (not without debate, since they are unnumbered )

In this set, the acquisition of any individual card is not equal...getting a low grade Joe Jackson will cost you Cadillac money. Getting a low grade Stanage will cost you two “Cappuccino and Scones” money. Finding the Mitchell and Sweeney cards would be a needle in a haystack and cost a bunch!

Who’s collecting the set?
Who wants to weigh in on a weighting system?
Who wants to keep track of the group’s Caramel Monster Number?

[bobbvc]

The Gibson Back View is tough.

[RaidonCollects]

The E90-1 set is one of my favorite pre-war card sets, in my opinion it is more colorful and has more interesting poses than the T206 set. I think a weighing system would be great, although very time consuming. If we did a population count for some of the cards I think we would find quite a few cards are rarer/commoner than we thought before. A monster number thread would be fun too, but I have no idea how many E90-1 collectors we have on the board.

Owen

[Yoda]

There is a reasonable Joss throwing/horizontal, always a tough E90-1 card to find in any shape, on LTGA. Don't know if you have one or not but worth a look. The Mitchell is doable. Several around in recent months either on Ebay or AH's. about $2.000 for a graded vg. Good luck on a tough but fascinating set.

[Cozumeleno]

Great idea - I'm at 53 with little effort. I am working towards a set but very passively at this point. I got to about 60 simply buying cards when I could within the price I wanted and have some of the tougher commons/HOFs.

I think a 'wall' might come a little earlier than 100. I've probably seen about 30 others that I could have had with a little more money. The others are out there but harder to find. I guess it depends what the definition of 'wall' is.

[puckpaul]

i love this set after buying the Mitchell years ago and a handful of others in a clean Sweep Auction that i thought were really cool and reasonable (love the Speaker!). but can't decide if i want to take the plunge on starting to think about the whole set, as the market is so heated now and i know the big ones are going to cost... waiting. maybe if get a large group lot.

[abroome]

I'm building the set myself. The E90-1 has become my favorite pre-war set. I am at around 65 so far but I am fortunate to have most of the rarities of the set. (I need to update my list but last count was 65)
While the set has been cataloged at 120 cards for some time, it is now officially cataloged at 121. Beckett added the Miller sunset and no sunset about 3 years ago.

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[Yoda]

How does the Overall rate as a rarity?

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Yoda

How does the Overall rate as a rarity?

Over all he is fairly scarce. And this is more times than I have posted in Franks Monster thread.... We should consider starting a fresh new thread for the caramel monster, but either way is fine by me. Not sure if I will do the set, ya' never know.

[packs]

The Speaker has been a dream card for me for a long time. I don't think I've ever seen such a cool card.

[ullmandds]

i have not seen an e90-1 miller sunset or no sunset for sale in while.