Posted By:
Todd SchultzI was going to put this on the main board, as I don't want to disrupt a sale, but it seems enough have chimed in here that I can too. Nice Wagner card, BTW.
SCD has really done a disservice to the hobby, IMO, by treating the Standard Biscuits as a set that needs to be catalogued differently than the other m101 sets. The proper way to checklist these is to refer to the m101 listings and perhaps add express variations for the confirmed Becker and Wallace cards. Tim is right--the set is not all that uncommon, at least from an m101-5 perspective.
Fluckzilla asks if there are other confirmed Standard Biscuit cards than those listed in the SCD. Well, turn around the question and ask it with regard to the other backs. Have you confirmed 200 different Holmes to Homes cards? Mall Theatre? 200+ different Gimball's? I think not, yet it is completely rational to believe they were at least printed, and SCD refers you to the m101 sets for those. Oh, and a quick look at my SBs shows these 4 "uncatalogued", and we're not even through C in the alphabet (I have more):
Does this make these uncatlogued cards more scarce? Doubtful. ALL m101 ad backed cards are scarce except The Sporting News. To advertise them as such is not misleading IMO. But to refer to SBs as scarcer than others based simply on SCD and or graded card pops is problematic and dubious.