Cards from mainstream sets you just don't hear about...that are tough!
 

E90-1 keeler portrait red...good luck finding one!!!!!

Here are the 3 in e90-1...the pink portrait is easy...the red throwing card is tough...and the red portrait is toughest!!!!

Try this one
 

Try finding this E90-1 card.

The 1911 D359 Rochester Baking series super rare cards!!! Not sure if it is mainstream or not do!!!

Link to the Plank card:

http://www.sgccard.com/pricesrealize...73_goodwin.jpg

1933 Worch cigar cards are tough. I think I have seen, at most, one other Mack. I paid quite a bit for this and was told Larry Frisch (RIP) was the underbidder, though I can't confirm it.

http://luckeycards.com/ptuncworchmack.jpg

Ugh....that card would look pretty in my collection, Leon...even though, judging by his expression, it looks like Mack's A's got hammered by another team that day! :)

T207 Mike Donlin. I've been on the lookout for 10 years and never have found one.

http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/...psdd40f1de.jpg

Any Exhibit PC backed silhouette card

http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit.../Waner%202.jpghttp://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...e/Hartnett.jpg
http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...e%20upload.jpg

As for a truly mainstream set, this one is very tough in high grade. I haven't found a better one in over 8 years building my 1933 Goudey set. :D:D:D

http://photos.imageevent.com/rgold/r...ey/moore_1.jpg

What's up with Jerry Upp?
 

E90-1 his only card, as far as I know. I've read it as being described as 'semi-tough', 'tough' and 'rare'. I've seen them as beaters (my own), and in high grade. Not really the toughest card to find in a popular set, if you want/need it, but are there really that many mid-grades out there?

The 1939-46 Salutations have a number of very tough SP's that are 10 x harder to get than the commons-

http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n...-Gehrig-35.jpghttp://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n...Averill-60.jpghttp://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n...cinello-55.jpg

Where's Rizzo and Mulcahy...man, were those tough for me to find.

Fleer Whiz Bang
 

The 1930 Fleer Whiz Bangs includes 3 baseball players (Goslin, Grove & Hartnett) in various shades of colors. There are only 83 cards in the original "find" of which 15 were baseball players. There are only 4 complete sets of the baseball players and 1 possible set of each 16 subjects. There are 13 other non-baseball players.

The cards are very rare and difficult to find in any of the color variations.

Took me years to find this one; finally got it last year.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/calvindog/8269212335/" title="T207 (Cycle back) by calvindog65, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8356/8269212335_f26bce3cc1_o.jpg" width="423" height="681" alt="T207 (Cycle back)"></a>e

ditto
 

More of the same
 

Nice Donlin's everyone!

I'd say more than 20% of the T207 set, when you get down to it. They're out there, but it always seems like when you need one. Mine were Donnelly and Birmingham. Now the Donnelly seems to show up regularly...

http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps273079a8.jpg

To your original point, though, Pete, in T207 there are a number of the Recruit-class cards that are much tougher than their counterparts. T207 set collectors either know about them, find out out about them pretty quickly, or are really lucky...

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Mike

T207
 

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Ray Morgan is more difficult to find than some other Recruit backs.

All of the 1916 Zeenuts are hard to find from what I've seen.

I`ve got Mulcahy but that Rizzo is still eluding me! :mad:

E91b
 

Only downside generic faces

Some more Exhibit short prints..