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john/z28jdTed look at Scotts timeline above that spanned over 14,000 ebay transactions,how long is long enough for you in this case?
Heres a count for you:
Scott kept count for 2 years and recorded 16 Boston and 11 New York,if you check the links section for all the dealers there are 10 boston and 2 new york versions,ebay current and recently completed auctions shows a count of 5 boston and 2 new york and i have 2 boston and 1 ny.To me that shows 33 for Boston and 16 for NY and thats a pretty big sample.
From that count i take that Kleinow NY is just as tough but since its not a high book value less people will bother listing it.If the count was even over that large sample id agree that the Boston is tougher, but shows up more because of its value but this count is 2 to 1 in favor on NY being tougher to find.
My conclusion from all that info above plus talking to people who have recently put the set together 1 by 1, makes me believe theres no way possible Boston is decidedly more difficult as stated above,and if you ask some people they think NY is the tougher variation.I dont believe it is personally, but im sticking by my estimate of their population being within 10% of each other(basically, if there was 1000 of these cards in existance,no more than 550 would be new york versions).
I havent seen proof besides a price guide that shows me Boston is that tough that it deserves a high value or is harder to find than its NY counterpart.The higher prices attributed to the card can be explained by the price guide listing rather than actual rarity